Learning+Outcomes

=Learning Outcomes=

- understand what is forensic science:
- case study example - formal definition - activities : Case study analysis (Seeing the evidence); FBI (special agents) - research - What is a scientist - [] List of forensic scientists - research the role - interview

- understand the difference between observations (qualitative and quantitative) and inferences:
[|http://mysciencelessons.blogspot.com/2009/07/mystery-footprtints-observation-vs.html] [] - Observation skills - scavenger hunt for a mock crime scene in the classroom set up by the teacher (evidence is "planted" around the room or outside for the kiddies to find) [] [] Memory - hidden objects

Scientific Inquiry (Day 3) - Interpretations from data [] [] [] []

====- draw conclusions from observations and explain them using scientific knowledge - Dead animal mystery - The case of he missing teeth (p. 18 Food works); [] (interactive webgame)====

- find out how evidence is collected from the scene of a crime and how it is studied by forensic scientists
Identification of substances [] Code - Invisible Ink (p.75 Science Works); Magic writing (p. 110 Chemistry for every kid) Escape Routes - Draft detector (p. 79 Science Works) Fingerprinting - Whodunit (p.48 Science Works) Determining pH - Kitchen Magic (p.88 Food Works); Cabbage indicator (p.190 Chemistry for every kid); Cabbage Paper (p. 192 Chemistry for every kid); Tumeric paper (p. 204 Chemistry for every kid) Paper chromotography - Rainbow effect (p. 154 Chemistry for every kid) Detecting iron - Drinkable iron (p. 112 Chemistry for every kid) Starch ID/testing for starch (p. 104, 106 Chemistry for every kid) Aging Paper (p. 86 Chemistry for every kid)

- think creatively
- draw conclusions from observations and explain them using scientic knowledge

Scenarios - dead, lost, stolen, borrowed, accident (who's responsible)