Session 5 (scroll down for previous sessions)

1.      Read, summarize, and properly cite the following two articles: [.01]

a.      “Russia dig finds 'tsar's family'” @ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6962606.stm

b.      “Lost Romanov bones 'identified'” @ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7018503.stm

2.     Read “The Riddle of the Romanovs”  [.01]

a.      Article @: http://www.crf-usa.org/bria/bria133.html#riddle

b.      worksheet @ http://schools.lwsd.org/best/Science/forensic/in-depth/7.htm

3.     Complete the “Recovering the Romanovs” [.03]

a.      on-line activities @ http://www.dnai.org/d/index.html

b.      worksheets (available from instructor)

4.     Identification of the remains of the Romanov Family [.02]

a.      on-line info @ http://www.shodor.org/succeed/forensic/romanov.html

b.      worksheets (available from instructor)

5.     “Ordeal by Cheque” Forensic Accounting [.02]

a.      EVIDENCE: Can be found at this link.     http://collectiveconscious.com/chaucer/Ordeal%2520By%2520Cheque.pdf 

b.     WORKSHEET: Click here

c.       WRITTEN NARRATIVE: Write a one to 1 ½ page paper telling the story – but (most important) you need to connect your assertions to the evidence.

6.     Forensic Anthropology Lab packet (available from instructor) [.01]

Session 4

Forensic Science Career Research

 [ http://schools.lwsd.org/best/Science/forensic/11-05/FORENSIC%20SCIENCE%20CAREER%20RESEARCH.doc ]

DIRECTIONS: Copy and paste these into word.  Then put in spaces after every question to type or write-in your answers.  Please include your name on every sheet.  When doing the activities, click on the links for the video or virtual reality experience.

1.      Homicide Detective Investigating Murder [1:33] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abD0AB1nEU4]

Questions:

a.       Who is the profiled expert and what is her title?

b.      What is the hardest thing she has to do?

1.      What does she like about doing this task?

2.      What happens to her when she is done?

c.       What do families’ need that drives her to do her job?

2.      Gathering Crime Scene Evidence [3:38] [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZHf5G8MuUw ]

Questions

a.       Describe the kinds of thing of which investigators take photos.

b.      Why do they take so many photos?

c.       How is a video camera used at a crime scene?

d.      What is the investigators’ “ultimate goal?”

e.       Why do they collect everything?

f.        What role do interviews play?

g.       Why are the chances of leaving a fingerprint while committing a crime “quite good?”

h.       What kinds of analyses might be done?

3.      Digging for Evidence video clips [ http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/lessons/lp_gangland_videos.html ]

Instructions:  Answer ALL the questions for both clips. 

*Note: at the top of the screen you will see [REAL:  large  small  |  WINDOWS:  large  small ]  On some computers, only the [ WINDOWS:   small  ] link works. 

4.      VIRTUAL Crime Scene Activity  [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/case_gangland/gangland.html ]

a.       Questions for #2 above (you could print the page and fill it out by hand.)

b.      Additional Questions for above:

                        i.      What pieces of evidence did you take to trial?

                      ii.      Why was each piece of evidence significant?

                     iii.      What are some differences between this crime scene dig and the one shown in the video clips from #3?

Session 3

DIRECTIONS: Copy and paste these into word.  I would suggest making a separate sheet for each activity.  Then put in spaces after every question to type or write-in your answers.  Please include your name on every sheet.  When doing the activities, click on the links for the video or virtual reality experience.

1.      What happened at the Baked Bean Café?

2.      What is a “pH Sensor” used for?

IF USED: What evidence did it analyze?  What was the data obtained?  What does this tell us?

3.      What is a “CBR2” used for?

IF USED: What evidence did it analyze?  What was the data obtained?  What does this tell us?

4.      What is a “calorimeter” used for?

IF USED: What evidence did it analyze?  What was the data obtained?  What does this tell us?

5.      What is an “Easy Temp” used for?

IF USED: What evidence did it analyze?  What was the data obtained?  What does this tell us?

6.      Name the witnesses at the crime scene.

7.      What was used to start the fire?

8.      What physical evidence links the perpetrator to the location?

9.      Who was the perpetrator?

10.  What are the steps highlighted in the Case Log methods recap?

DIRECTIONS: Copy and paste these into word.  I would suggest making a separate sheet for each activity.  Then put in spaces after every question to type or write-in your answers.  Please include your name on every sheet.  When doing the activities, click on the links for the video or virtual reality experience.

1.      In what building was the victim found?  Where in the building?

2.      Who is the victim?  Why was he there?  Who saw him last? Where? When?

3.      When did the victim die?

4.      Your job is to determine the _______________ and to calculate the ____________ of the attacker.

5.      What is a “CBR2” used for?

IF USED: What evidence did it analyze?  What was the data obtained?  What does this tell us?

6.      What is an “Easy Temp” used for?

IF USED: What evidence did it analyze?  What was the data obtained?  What does this tell us?

7.      What is a “Caliper” used for?

IF USED: What evidence did it analyze?  What was the data obtained?  What does this tell us?

8.      What is a “pH Sensor” used for?

IF USED: What evidence did it analyze?  What was the data obtained?  What does this tell us?

9.      Name the witnesses at the crime scene.

10.  What physical evidence links the perpetrator to the location?

11.  Who was the perpetrator?

12.  What are the steps highlighted in the Case Log methods recap?

DIRECTIONS: Copy and paste these into word.  I would suggest making a separate sheet for each activity.  Then put in spaces after every question to type or write-in your answers.  Please include your name on every sheet.  When doing the activities, click on the links for the video or virtual reality experience.

1.      What took place?  Where did this happen?  When?

2.      Who is involved?

3.      Your job is to determine the _______________ of the vehicle and to determine the nature of the ____________ found in the car.

4.      What is a “CBR2” used for?

IF USED: What evidence did it analyze?  What was the data obtained?  What does this tell us?

5.      What is an “Easy Temp” used for?

IF USED: What evidence did it analyze?  What was the data obtained?  What does this tell us?

6.      What is a “Dual Force Sensor” used for?

IF USED: What evidence did it analyze?  What was the data obtained?  What does this tell us?

7.      What is a “pH Sensor” used for?

IF USED: What evidence did it analyze?  What was the data obtained?  What does this tell us?

8.      Name the witnesses at the crime scene.

9.      Of what charge(s) was the driver ultimately guilty?  What evidence supported this?

10.  Of what charge(s) was the driver ultimately NOT guilty?  What evidence supported this?

11.  What are the steps highlighted in the Case Log methods recap?

DIRECTIONS: Copy and paste these into word.  I would suggest making a separate sheet for each activity.  Then put in spaces after every question to type or write-in your answers.  Please include your name on every sheet.  When doing the activities, click on the links for the video or virtual reality experience.

1.      What do people who work in a forensic lab basically do?

2.      Why is the job market in this field expanding?

3.      What are some specialty areas in forensics?

DIRECTIONS: Copy and paste these into word.  I would suggest making a separate sheet for each activity.  Then put in spaces after every question to type or write-in your answers.  Please include your name on every sheet.  When doing the activities, click on the links for the video or virtual reality experience.

1.      Who is Lisa Faber?

2.      Why is light important in her job?

3.      Why do you think was her job not easy in the case of the 99 Cent Store owner’s death?

4.      Lisa says that there is a word from the TV show they would never use.  What is it, why won’t

they say it, and what do they say instead?

5.      What evidence cleared a wrongly-convicted man?   Do you think he was wrongly convicted, or was it a mistake?

6.      What is the “Gold Standard” of evidence in courts?  Why?

7.      Someone interested in becoming a ‘CSI’ should have a solid foundation in what studies?

8.      What are some differences between real CSI and the TV show? Why do you think these differences exist?

DIRECTIONS: Copy and paste these into word.  I would suggest making a separate sheet for each activity.  Then put in spaces after every question to type or write-in your answers.  Please include your name on every sheet.  When doing the activities, click on the links for the video or virtual reality experience.

1.      How do we know that people long ago knew about hereditary traits?

2.      Darwin’s theory was on what major idea?

3.      What question about hereditary traits existed for a long time? 

Why do you think it was a mystery for so long?

4.      What is the molecule that determines heredity?

5.      What did Crick and Watson do to earn a Nobel Prize in 1953?

DIRECTIONS: Copy and paste these into word.  I would suggest making a separate sheet for each activity.  Then put in spaces after every question to type or write-in your answers.  Please include your name on every sheet.  When doing the activities, click on the links for the video or virtual reality experience.

1.       DNA can be found in the ___________of every cell.

2.       What is DNA?                                 What do the letters “DNA” stand for?

3.       The sides (or backbones) of the DNA ladder consists of sugar _________________.

4.       The rungs of the ladder are actually two bases held together by a ______________bond.

5.       There are four different kinds of bases, represented by the letters ___   ___   ___   ___.

6.       Which bases can bond together? _____ & ______, and _____ & ______.

7.       The strands are made up of ________________s which make up _____________s that then make up ____________s. 

8.       What do genes do?

9.       What do proteins do?

10.   G=_______________, A=________________, T=________________, C=________________

DIRECTIONS: Copy and paste these into word.  I would suggest making a separate sheet for each activity.  Then put in spaces after every question to type or write-in your answers.  Please include your name on every sheet.  When doing the activities, click on the links for the video or virtual reality experience.

1.       For what three reasons might scientists analyze human DNA?

2.       In DNA extraction, DNA first needs to be purified away from what?

3.       What are the four steps for purifying DNA?

4.       Complete the virtual lab.

DIRECTIONS: Copy and paste these into word.  I would suggest making a separate sheet for each activity.  Then put in spaces after every question to type or write-in your answers.  Please include your name on every sheet.  When doing the activities, click on the links for the video or virtual reality experience.

1.       Why do scientists use gel electrophoresis?

2.       Describe the gel

3.       Where does the DNA get placed?

4.       Why does the DNA “move?”

5.       What do short DNA strands do?

6.       What do long DNA strands do?

7.       What step makes the sorted DNA strands visible to the naked eye?

8.       What are the five steps?  Briefly summarize each step as you complete the virtual lab.

9.       What were your three estimates?

10.   Were they correct?  How did you estimate them?

11.   With you estimates, what does “bp” stand for?

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