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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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