Forensic Science CPU Objectives
Activity 1
1-1. Define forensics.
1-2. Explore the history of forensic science.
1-3. Define and describe methods of collecting
physical evidence.
1-4. Make and use a druggist fold for preserving
collected samples.
1-5.Describe what careers you chose to
shadow/research and explain how each career is significant to the
field of forensic science.
Activity 2
2-1. Discover the history of forensic science.
2-2. Identify the importance of collecting
evidence from a crime scene.
2-3. Define and determine the uses of trace and
transfer evidence.
2-4. Demonstrate proper procedure when handling
and utilizing a microscope.
2-5. Use a microscope to examine various slides
and compare hair samples.
2-6.Explain how a microscope makes exact
identification of trace and transfer evidence possible and determine
what other methods a forensic scientist could use to identify such
evidence.
Activity 3
3-1. Identify different types of evidence.
3-2. Explore how trace and transfer evidence is
collected.
3-3. Define forensic medicine.
3-4. Discover autopsy procedures, pretest and
post test care.
3-5. Examine a death certificate and see what is
included in this document.
3-6.Consider some circumstances (cultural,
religious, or ethical) in which a family may not wish to have an
autopsy performed, even if the autopsy might be seen as necessary.
Activity 4
4-1. Explore how forensic science helps solve
crimes.
4-2. Explore safety precautions and equipment
used in the forensic science lab.
4-3. Explain blood and study the various types of
blood.
4-4. Examine how blood and genetics play a role
in solving mysterious crimes.
4-5.Discuss how the identification of blood has
affected the field of forensics and consider what sorts of evidence
would be more heavily relied upon if blood identification didn't
exist.
Activity 5
5-1. Complete the simulated blood typing
experiment.
5-2. Define DNA and its components.
5-3. Examine common sources of DNA.
5-4. Consider why DNA has become an important
type of evidence in criminal court cases.
5-5. Discover the collecting and preserving
process for DNA evidence.
5-6.Consider some pros and cons to the idea of a
database containing information on every US citizen's DNA by listing
at least two examples of both positive and negative effects such a
program might have.
Activity 6
6-1. State the common uses of gel electrophoresis
as it relates to forensics.
6-2. Explain the process of electrophoresis.
6-3. Complete the electrophoresis experiment.
6-4.Consider how indisputable DNA evidence has
become in modern court cases and explain whether or not this status
is merited.
Activity 7
7-1. Finish the electrophoresis experiment.
7-2. Explore forensic odontology, including
dental identification and bite marks.
7-3. Examine forensic chemistry and toxicology
and their history, CPU, and future.
7-4. Discover the attributes of forensic
serology.
7-5. Utilize various sources to explore how blood
stain patterns are analyzed.
7-6.Consider what options a deceased person's
survivors might have had prior to the ability to accurately detect
and identify poisons in a body if they suspected the victim was
poisoned.
Activity 8
8-1. Complete the Crime Scene #3: Drug Bust
procedures.
8-2. Explore the roles required in forensic
pathology.
8-3. Examine cause, mechanism, and manner of
death.
8-4. Discover changes that occur to the body
after death.
8-5.Discuss positive and negative aspects of a
court case when the testimony of one or more forensic pathologists
offer differing scientific testimony.
Activity 9
9-1. Define forensic psychology and psychiatry
and describe a career in these fields.
9-2. Determine how forensic psychology and
psychiatry affect criminal proceedings.
9-3. Explore the attributes of a career in
forensic anthropology.
9-4. Consider bone and other postmortem testing
conducted by a forensic anthropologist.
9-5. Explore mummies.
9-6.Make some connections between forensic
anthropology and other branches of forensic science and consider how
these fields relate to each other and how findings from one
supplement or aid findings from another in a particular case.
Activity 10
10-1. Explore various types of forensic
entomology.
10-2. Discover the history of forensic
entomology.
10-3. Distinguish how forensic entomologists
determine the time of death.
10-4. Complete an entomology data form from an
entomology case.
10-5.Consider other environmental factors (other
than bacterial, arthropodal, and weather interaction with dead
flesh) that might also help forensic scientists determine certain
facts about a body.
Activity 11
11-1. Examine the technique and theory of
fingerprinting.
11-2. Explore the various layers of skin.
11-3. Discover latent fingerprints.
11-4. Complete a fingerprint investigation.
11-5.Discuss how mistaken identity based on very
similar fingerprints may change how fingerprint analysis is
conducted when using computerized comparisons.
Activity 12
12-1. Explore forgery and how the field of
forensic science aids in preventing forgery.
12-2. Discover how forensic science helps solve
crimes of arson.
12-3. Complete various forensic teaser questions
and forensic investigations.
12-4. Research careers.
12-5.Discuss what other types of crimes (other
than murder, forgery, and arson) forensic science might be able to
help solve and list a few of these case types and then describe how
forensics might be useful in investigating such cases.
Activity 13
13-1. You will participate in a career shadowing
activity the instructor has arranged.
OR
13-2. You will complete research on the makeup of
DNA and how DNA fingerprinting is used in the field of forensic
science.
13-3.Describe how your shadowing opportunity went
(or how your research is going).
Activity 14
14-1. You will participate in a career shadowing
activity the instructor has arranged.
OR
14-2. You will work on a project that implements
the information you collected regarding the makeup of DNA and how
DNA fingerprinting is used in the field of forensic science.
14-3.Describe how your shadowing opportunity went
(or how your research is going).
Activity 15
15-1.Select appropriate vocabulary terms based on
the definitions provided.
15-2.Test your comprehension of concepts gained
during this course.
15-3.State and explain your opinion of the
Forensic Science CPU.
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