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Course: Forensic Science

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|Class: | |Level: 10/11/12 Semester: Fall |

|Topic/Unit: |Enduring Understandings: |Essential Questions: |

|Unit 1: Forensic Science & Criminal Justice |-Forensic science has developed over time due to advances in science, technology and society |-What is forensics? |

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|Theme: |-There are many different types of professionals that participate in the forensics process |-How was the first crime lab developed? |

|Applying the Science | | |

| |-Forensic science is based on the advancement and integration of the core science disciplines |-How has forensic science changed since its inception? |

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| | |-What are the different facilities and services that a crime lab provides? |

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| | |-How has science become integrated into the practice of law? |

|CCS Standards-Based Skills & Processes Throughout Unit: Students will show mastery of which group of standards? |Case Studies |

|CCLS Reading |CCLS Writing |-The Bronx Six (1995) |

|Standards: 2* |Standards: 9* |-Carlo Ferrier (1831) |

|Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide|Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research|-Three Wrongful Convictions (2000 and 2003) |

|an accurate summary that makes clear the relationships among the key details and | | |

|ideas. | | |

|Summative Assessment including Performance Task(s) – Attach task(s): |Formative Assessments including benchmarks throughout the unit: |

|- Baseline Assessment of Fall Term |- Student activity tasks (individual and group) |

|- Unit Exam for The Forensic Science and Criminal Justice Unit |-Homework |

|- Performance Task for The Forensic Science and Criminal Justice Unit |-Daily exit tickets, quick-writes, graphic organizers, and pre-write template |

|- Laboratory Reports and summary questions for labs |-Scientific Method checks: Hypothesis and Procedure |

|- Extended Activity Report for The Forensic Science and Criminal Justice Unit |-Vocabulary building/connecting strategies checks |

|- Constructed Response Essay s for The Forensic Science and Criminal Justice Unit (Describe and Explain …) |-Summary template/draft/checks |

|-Student activity tasks (individual and group) |-Describe and Explain writing templates/drafts/checks |

|-Daily exit tickets, quick-writes, graphic organizers, and pre-write template |-Past and current domain specific vocabulary checks for historical texts |

|-Scientific Method Report |-Ranking of evidence template and checks |

|-History of Forensics Report |-Text structures in writing checks |

| |-Graphing Skills check |

| |-Pros & Cons skill check |

| |-Case Study Analysis Check |

| |-Measurement Skills check |

| |-Organizing Information skill check |

| |-Laboratory safety checks |

| |-Microscope skills checks |

| |-Significant Figures and Scientific Notation checks |

|Performance Task & Measures of Performance: |Cross-Displinary Connections: |

|(see attached task, rubric, scoring guides, etc.) |ELA: Determining central idea and citing evidence |

| |Mathematics: Concentrations (ppm, ppb), significant figures, and scientific notation |

| |Social Studies: Historical Development of forensics, |

|Instructional Pathways: |

| |What strategies/best practices will be used to teach these higher order skills, concepts, |

|What progression of lessons will comprise this unit? |and processes? |

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| |Textbook Pages | | |

|AIM |And/or |LESSON CONTENT/SKILLS |Strategies/Best Practices |

| |Informational Texts | | |

|1. Why is forensics considered an interdisciplinary science? | |-What is Forensics Science/ | |

| | |-Biology, Chemistry, Geology, and Physics | |

| | |-What do Forensics Scientists do | |

|2. How did Edmond Locard create the job of forensic | |- History of Forensic Science |- |

|scientist? | |-Locard’s Principle | |

| | |-Role of a Forensic scientist/Careers | |

|3. How do forensic scientists make observations? | |-Observations and Inferences |- |

| | |-Evidence | |

| | |-Suspending Judgment | |

|4. What does a forensics crime laboratory look like today? | |-Equipment to analyze physical evidence: gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer, lasers, bullet |- |

| | |recover tank, microscopes, etc. | |

| | |-Comparison Standards | |

| | |-Access to IAFIS, CODIS, and NIBIN | |

|5. How do forensic scientists use the scientific method in | |-Scientific Method |- |

|their work? | |-Testing hypothesis | |

| | |-Making conclusions | |

|6. How do forensic scientists use different microscopes in | |-Compound Light Microscope |- |

|their work? | |-Scanning Electron Microscope | |

| | |-Stereomicroscope | |

| | |-Polarized Light Microscope | |

|7. How can we use the microscope to look at crime scene | |-Blood Sample | |

|samples? | |-Fibers | |

| | |-Insects | |

|8. How do forensic scientists accurately measure distance and| |-Length, width, height |- |

|length? | |-Metric system: SI | |

| | |-Significant Figures | |

|9. Why is organic chemistry important in forensic science? | |-Organic and Inorganic |- |

| | |-Organic Chemistry | |

| | |-Body components, toxins, and mixtures of compounds in samples | |

|10. How did forensic scientists first separate organic | |-Chromatography |- |

|compounds? | |-Gas Chromatography | |

|11. How can we separate the different dyes that are in pen | |-Paper Chromatography | |

|ink? | |-Rf values | |

|12. How do scientists now identify organic compounds in their| |-Analytic Chemistry |- |

|labs? | |-Spectroscopy | |

| | |-Mass (MS) and Infrared (IR) | |

|13. How do forensic scientists measure concentrations of | |-Solvents and Solutes | |

|elements? | |-PPM | |

| | |-PPB | |

|14. What are atomic fingerprints? | |-Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer | |

| | |-Element Line Spectra | |

| | |-Analysis of Metals | |

|15. Why are case studies important to forensic scientists? | |-Case Study | |

| | |-Analytical Skills | |

| | |-Deductive Reasoning | |

|Notes/Reflections: |

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