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  • Forensic Science
  • Scope and Sequence: Forensic Science
  • Lesson Plan: Lab Safety
  • Lesson Plan: Crime Scene Investigation
  • Lesson Plan: Forensic Glass Analysis
  • Lesson Plan: Trace Evidence - Hair and Fiber
  • Lesson Plan: Forensic Paint Analysis
  • Lesson Plan: Footwear Impressions
  • Lesson Plan: Taking Fingerprints - Tenprint
  • Lesson Plan: Development of Latent Prints
  • Lesson Plan: Forensic Serology
  • Lesson Plan: DNA - Deoxyribonucleic Acid
  • Lesson Plan: Forensic Toxicology
  • Lesson Plan: Firearms and Tool Marks
  • Lesson Plan: Controlled Substances
  • Lesson Plan: Careers in Forensic Science
  • Lesson Plan: Ethical Standards in Forensic Science
  • Lesson Plan: History of Forensic Science
  • Lesson Plan: Role of Forensic Pathologists and Anthropologists
  • Lesson Plan: Legal Systems
  • Lesson Plan: History of Fingerprinting
  • Lesson Plan: Questioned Documents
  • Lesson Plan: Scientific Method
  • Lesson Plan: Using the Scientific Methods
  • Lesson Plan: Forensic Use of Light
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  • Lesson Plan: Law Enforcement - Forensic Anthropology
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Forensic Science

Cluster/Pathway/Course
Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security
Law Enforcement Services
Forensic Science
Grade Range
9
10
11
12
13
Release Date
12-15-2017
Tags:
Crime Scene Investigation
Fiber
Composition
DNA
Toxicological Evidence
Drug Dependence
Contributors
Fingerprinting
Excavation
Prerequisites Biology and Chemistry
Evidence Collection
Forensic Paint Analysis
Serology
Deoxyribonucleic Acid
Blood Alcohol
Drug Tests
Timeline
Counterfeit Documents
Odontology
Law Enforcement
Crime Scene
Paint Layer Determination
Genetics
DNA Typing
Chromatography
Drug Evidence
Pathologists
Scientific Method
Entomolgy
Criminal Investigations
Forensic Glass
Forensics
Blood
Double Helix
Marks
Careers in Forensic Science
Forensic Science
Chemical Reaction
Glass
Lab
Bodily Fluid
Electrophoresis
Tools
Professionalism
Anthropologists
Metric Conversions
MSDS
Evidence Analysis
Fingerprints
Bloodstains
Toxicology
Firearms
Professional Practices
Criminalistics
White Powder Lab
Lab Safety
Trace Evidence
Criminal Justice
Punnett Squares
Toxicologist
Drugs
Code of Ethics
Criminology
Anthropology
Chemicals
Hair
Latent Prints
Stains
Forensic Toxicology
Controlled Substances
History
Ethical Standards
Decomposition
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Description

Forensic Science is a course that introduces students to the application of science to connect a violation of law to a specific criminal, criminal act, or behavior and victim. Students will learn terminology and procedures related to the search and examination of physical evidence in criminal cases as they are performed in a typical crime laboratory. Using scientific methods, students will collect and analyze evidence such as fingerprints, bodily fluids, hairs, fibers, paint, glass, and cartridge cases. Students will also learn the history and the legal aspects as they relate to each discipline of forensic science. 

This binder does not contain all lesson plans for this course. This content can be used with any textbook or instructional materials. If locally adapted, make sure all TEKS are covered.

Resources

Scope and Sequence

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_rgb_300px-Icon_5.png?itok=vWNasLp2 Scope and Sequence: Forensic Science
Resource ID: 19447
Grade Range: 11, 12

CTE TEKS - Implemented 2017-2018, adopted in 2015

Forensic Science course scope and sequence within the Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security Career Cluster® summarizes the content to be taught, and one possible order for teaching the units of instruction. A brief description of each unit and the corresponding TEKS are included. This scope and sequence may be adapted or adopted by the local education agency.

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Program of Study

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_1.png?itok=iGxR_pmN Program of Study: Lawyers and Arbitrators
Resource ID: 19574
Grade Range: 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

Based on the House Bill 5 Foundation High School Program, the Lawyers and Arbitrators program of study within the Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security Career Cluster® provides helpful information, including the core courses and career-related electives in high school that will help prepare students for their career goals. This document is designed for students, but can also be used by administrators, counselors, teachers, business and industry representatives, and parents.


Program of Study

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_0.png?itok=trrS7YIo Program of Study: Firefighter
Resource ID: 19573
Grade Range: 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

Based on the House Bill 5 Foundation High School Program, the Firefighter program of study within the Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security Career Cluster® provides helpful information, including the core courses and career-related electives in high school that will help prepare students for their career goals. This document is designed for students, but can also be used by administrators, counselors, teachers, business and industry representatives, and parents.


Program of Study

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_rgb_100px-Icon.png?itok=CzDsQnAN Program of Study: Corrections Officer
Resource ID: 19592
Grade Range: 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

Based on the House Bill 5 Foundation High School Program, the Corrections Officer program of study within the Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security Career Cluster® provides helpful information, including the core courses and career-related electives in high school that will help prepare students for their career goals. This document is designed for students, but can also be used by administrators, counselors, teachers, business and industry representatives, and parents.


Unit 1: Professional Standards and Employer Expectations

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_50px-Icon_6.png?itok=-o955p6F Lesson Plan: Lab Safety
Resource ID: 13550
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

In this lesson, students learn the safe way of operating in the forensic science labs. Students will be expected to create lab safety posters as well as complete an MSDS activity for various chemicals.

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Unit 1: Professional Standards and Employer Expectations

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_50px-Icon_6.png?itok=-o955p6F Lesson Plan: Crime Scene Investigation
Resource ID: 13569
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

In this lesson, students learn about various critical steps like obtaining, photographing, and preserving evidence at a crime scene. This lesson also, encourages an understanding of crime scene investigation, that is crucial for the forensic scientist to further analyze the crime and suspect.

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Unit 1: Professional Standards and Employer Expectations

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_31.png?itok=dK8bHL9D Lesson Plan: Forensic Glass Analysis
Resource ID: 13571
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

Glass fragments located at a crime scene can be essential to determining the identity and sometimes the location of a suspect. However, in all cases, the forensic scientist is required to draw comparison samples and determine the class or category of the glass sample or glass fragment. In this lesson, students will research glass analysis procedures, glass collection and preservation techniques.

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Unit 1: Professional Standards and Employer Expectations

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_32.png?itok=kFx53WFN Lesson Plan: Trace Evidence - Hair and Fiber
Resource ID: 13574
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

Trace evidence examination is often challenged in court for its uncertainty. Nonetheless, characterization of hair and fiber evidence has played an important role in providing investigative leads in many criminal cases. It is not to be replaced in its entirety by DNA analysis, but to be used complimentarily with other disciplines and technology in forensic science. Students will learn about hair and fiber evidence through hair scale lab, hair microscopy lab, and fiber examination lab. Student lab handbook included.

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Unit 1: Professional Standards and Employer Expectations

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_50px-Icon_1.png?itok=ZpGZWxcO Lesson Plan: Forensic Paint Analysis
Resource ID: 13578
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

In this lesson, students get an overview of paint elements and the steps involved in forensic paint analysis. The lesson also includes a paint layer determination lab.

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Unit 1: Professional Standards and Employer Expectations

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_9.png?itok=M2dhtnPm Lesson Plan: Footwear Impressions
Resource ID: 13580
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

Impression evidence found at the crime scene often provides important investigative leads. In addition to defining class characteristics, it can also provide unique, individual characteristics that may lead to a specific source. This lesson is a lab in which students explore footwear impressions. The lab instructions are included, as well as quizzes and rubrics. 

View Resource

Unit 1: Professional Standards and Employer Expectations

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_37.png?itok=1aYWbdRn Lesson Plan: Taking Fingerprints - Tenprint
Resource ID: 13584
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

In this lesson, students will participate in a lab experience in taking and comparing fingerprints.

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Unit 1: Professional Standards and Employer Expectations

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_37.png?itok=1aYWbdRn Lesson Plan: Development of Latent Prints
Resource ID: 13586
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

In this lesson, students will learn about the different types of fingerprints and the chemicals used to pick them up at crime scenes. A lab is included. 

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Unit 1: Professional Standards and Employer Expectations

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_26.png?itok=SErlAacA Lesson Plan: Forensic Serology
Resource ID: 13588
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

This lesson introduces students to forensic serology. Forensic serology is the detection and the classification of various types of human bodily fluids such as blood, semen, and saliva. Serology can also involve the identification of bloodstain patterns at a crime scene, which can not only tell who was present at the scene, but possibly what happened there.

View Resource

Unit 1: Professional Standards and Employer Expectations

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_37.png?itok=1aYWbdRn Lesson Plan: DNA - Deoxyribonucleic Acid
Resource ID: 13590
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

In this lesson, students will experiment with DNA, one of the most valuable tools to verify identities, exclude suspects, and solve crimes. This lesson includes a laboratory experiment.

View Resource

Unit 1: Professional Standards and Employer Expectations

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_37.png?itok=1aYWbdRn Lesson Plan: Forensic Toxicology
Resource ID: 13592
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

In this lesson, students will learn about forensic toxicology, the role of the toxicologist, collecting and preserving toxicological evidence, and techniques used to measure toxicology. Students will also conduct a chromatography lab and compute blood alcohol levels.

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Unit 1: Professional Standards and Employer Expectations

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_23.png?itok=JWLczU3m Lesson Plan: Firearms and Tool Marks
Resource ID: 13598
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

In some cases, a single bullet or tool mark can reveal many clues that will eventually lead investigators to a suspect. This lesson familiarizes students with firearms/tools marks and its analysis.

View Resource

Unit 1: Professional Standards and Employer Expectations

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_15.png?itok=Yke831gz Lesson Plan: Controlled Substances
Resource ID: 13594
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

This lesson will identify and categorize controlled substances and common drugs, and show how forensic science is used to fight crimes of this type.

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Unit 2: Forensic Science and Career Options

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_24.png?itok=KPac9APK Lesson Plan: Careers in Forensic Science
Resource ID: 13558
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

This lesson explores the history, legal aspects, and career options within forensic science. It also guides students to identify and illustrate roles, functions, and responsibilities of professionals in the criminal justice system, including crime scene investigators, criminalist, attorneys, and medical examiners.

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Unit 2: Forensic Science and Career Options

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_37.png?itok=1aYWbdRn Lesson Plan: Ethical Standards in Forensic Science
Resource ID: 13560
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

In this lesson, students will research and create a presentation over the code of ethics and professional practices in the field of forensic science.

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Unit 2: Forensic Science and Career Options

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_8.png?itok=dQqwRGNc Lesson Plan: History of Forensic Science
Resource ID: 13562
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

Forensic science is the application of science to criminal and civil law making the scientist in the crime laboratory an active participant in the criminal justice system.  An understanding of the origin and development of forensic science is imperative for effective communication in the courtroom. Through this lesson, students will be expected to create a timeline poster of important events in forensic history.

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Unit 2: Forensic Science and Career Options

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_50px-Icon_6.png?itok=-o955p6F Lesson Plan: Role of Forensic Pathologists and Anthropologists
Resource ID: 13564
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

In this lesson, students learn about the role of pathologists and anthropologists in criminal investigations. Students will have the opportunity to research a forensic science related career and create an informational brochure for that career.

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Unit 2: Forensic Science and Career Options

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_37.png?itok=1aYWbdRn Lesson Plan: Legal Systems
Resource ID: 13567
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

In this lesson, students will understand the importance of crime scene evidence and the different divisions who handle evidence from collection to courtroom.

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Unit 2: Forensic Science and Career Options

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_50px-Icon_6.png?itok=-o955p6F Lesson Plan: Crime Scene Investigation
Resource ID: 13569
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

In this lesson, students learn about various critical steps like obtaining, photographing, and preserving evidence at a crime scene. This lesson also, encourages an understanding of crime scene investigation, that is crucial for the forensic scientist to further analyze the crime and suspect.

View Resource

Unit 2: Forensic Science and Career Options

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_31.png?itok=dK8bHL9D Lesson Plan: Forensic Glass Analysis
Resource ID: 13571
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

Glass fragments located at a crime scene can be essential to determining the identity and sometimes the location of a suspect. However, in all cases, the forensic scientist is required to draw comparison samples and determine the class or category of the glass sample or glass fragment. In this lesson, students will research glass analysis procedures, glass collection and preservation techniques.

View Resource

Unit 2: Forensic Science and Career Options

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_32.png?itok=kFx53WFN Lesson Plan: Trace Evidence - Hair and Fiber
Resource ID: 13574
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

Trace evidence examination is often challenged in court for its uncertainty. Nonetheless, characterization of hair and fiber evidence has played an important role in providing investigative leads in many criminal cases. It is not to be replaced in its entirety by DNA analysis, but to be used complimentarily with other disciplines and technology in forensic science. Students will learn about hair and fiber evidence through hair scale lab, hair microscopy lab, and fiber examination lab. Student lab handbook included.

View Resource

Unit 2: Forensic Science and Career Options

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_9.png?itok=M2dhtnPm Lesson Plan: Footwear Impressions
Resource ID: 13580
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

Impression evidence found at the crime scene often provides important investigative leads. In addition to defining class characteristics, it can also provide unique, individual characteristics that may lead to a specific source. This lesson is a lab in which students explore footwear impressions. The lab instructions are included, as well as quizzes and rubrics. 

View Resource

Unit 2: Forensic Science and Career Options

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_50px-Icon_1.png?itok=ZpGZWxcO Lesson Plan: History of Fingerprinting
Resource ID: 13582
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

This lesson gives students an introduction to fingerprinting and includes the history and development of fingerprinting.

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Unit 2: Forensic Science and Career Options

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_26.png?itok=SErlAacA Lesson Plan: Forensic Serology
Resource ID: 13588
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

This lesson introduces students to forensic serology. Forensic serology is the detection and the classification of various types of human bodily fluids such as blood, semen, and saliva. Serology can also involve the identification of bloodstain patterns at a crime scene, which can not only tell who was present at the scene, but possibly what happened there.

View Resource

Unit 2: Forensic Science and Career Options

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_35.png?itok=qLPjMEqp Lesson Plan: Questioned Documents
Resource ID: 13596
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

Document examination is a well-respected field of scientific study. Crimes such as forgeries and counterfeiting are on the rise. As these increases so does the need for the field of questioned documents. This field allows us to analyze handwriting, forgeries, typescript documents, and counterfeits, which makes it essential to forensic science. This lesson and lab teaches how to identify counterfeit and forged documents.

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Unit 2: Forensic Science and Career Options

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_23.png?itok=JWLczU3m Lesson Plan: Firearms and Tool Marks
Resource ID: 13598
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

In some cases, a single bullet or tool mark can reveal many clues that will eventually lead investigators to a suspect. This lesson familiarizes students with firearms/tools marks and its analysis.

View Resource

Unit 3: Using Scientific Methods and Reasoning

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_50px-Icon_37.png?itok=n0fdzS4a Lesson Plan: Scientific Method
Resource ID: 13552
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

In this lesson, students learn to use the scientific method to solve an investigation, including all the steps of the method and an experiment in forensic analysis.

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Unit 3: Using Scientific Methods and Reasoning

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_7.png?itok=INOUXG12 Lesson Plan: Using the Scientific Methods
Resource ID: 13556
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

The ability to use scientific methods is a critical skill in problem solving and forensic science. An investigator will use scientific methods to analyze evidence, determine what happened at a crime scene, and to narrow down a suspect pool. Through this lesson, students will use dimensional analysis to complete metric conversions and analyze unknown powders using the scientific method to identify them.

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Unit 3: Using Scientific Methods and Reasoning

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_50px-Icon_6.png?itok=-o955p6F Lesson Plan: Crime Scene Investigation
Resource ID: 13569
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

In this lesson, students learn about various critical steps like obtaining, photographing, and preserving evidence at a crime scene. This lesson also, encourages an understanding of crime scene investigation, that is crucial for the forensic scientist to further analyze the crime and suspect.

View Resource

Unit 3: Using Scientific Methods and Reasoning

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_31.png?itok=dK8bHL9D Lesson Plan: Forensic Glass Analysis
Resource ID: 13571
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

Glass fragments located at a crime scene can be essential to determining the identity and sometimes the location of a suspect. However, in all cases, the forensic scientist is required to draw comparison samples and determine the class or category of the glass sample or glass fragment. In this lesson, students will research glass analysis procedures, glass collection and preservation techniques.

View Resource

Unit 3: Using Scientific Methods and Reasoning

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_32.png?itok=kFx53WFN Lesson Plan: Trace Evidence - Hair and Fiber
Resource ID: 13574
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

Trace evidence examination is often challenged in court for its uncertainty. Nonetheless, characterization of hair and fiber evidence has played an important role in providing investigative leads in many criminal cases. It is not to be replaced in its entirety by DNA analysis, but to be used complimentarily with other disciplines and technology in forensic science. Students will learn about hair and fiber evidence through hair scale lab, hair microscopy lab, and fiber examination lab. Student lab handbook included.

View Resource

Unit 3: Using Scientific Methods and Reasoning

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_37.png?itok=1aYWbdRn Lesson Plan: Forensic Use of Light
Resource ID: 13576
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

In this lesson, students learn how to use a UV light to collect evidence. Students will complete a lab experience to better understand this process.

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Unit 3: Using Scientific Methods and Reasoning

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_50px-Icon_1.png?itok=ZpGZWxcO Lesson Plan: Forensic Paint Analysis
Resource ID: 13578
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

In this lesson, students get an overview of paint elements and the steps involved in forensic paint analysis. The lesson also includes a paint layer determination lab.

View Resource

Unit 3: Using Scientific Methods and Reasoning

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_9.png?itok=M2dhtnPm Lesson Plan: Footwear Impressions
Resource ID: 13580
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

Impression evidence found at the crime scene often provides important investigative leads. In addition to defining class characteristics, it can also provide unique, individual characteristics that may lead to a specific source. This lesson is a lab in which students explore footwear impressions. The lab instructions are included, as well as quizzes and rubrics. 

View Resource

Unit 3: Using Scientific Methods and Reasoning

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_37.png?itok=1aYWbdRn Lesson Plan: Development of Latent Prints
Resource ID: 13586
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

In this lesson, students will learn about the different types of fingerprints and the chemicals used to pick them up at crime scenes. A lab is included. 

View Resource

Unit 3: Using Scientific Methods and Reasoning

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_26.png?itok=SErlAacA Lesson Plan: Forensic Serology
Resource ID: 13588
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

This lesson introduces students to forensic serology. Forensic serology is the detection and the classification of various types of human bodily fluids such as blood, semen, and saliva. Serology can also involve the identification of bloodstain patterns at a crime scene, which can not only tell who was present at the scene, but possibly what happened there.

View Resource

Unit 3: Using Scientific Methods and Reasoning

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_37.png?itok=1aYWbdRn Lesson Plan: DNA - Deoxyribonucleic Acid
Resource ID: 13590
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

In this lesson, students will experiment with DNA, one of the most valuable tools to verify identities, exclude suspects, and solve crimes. This lesson includes a laboratory experiment.

View Resource

Unit 3: Using Scientific Methods and Reasoning

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_35.png?itok=qLPjMEqp Lesson Plan: Questioned Documents
Resource ID: 13596
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

Document examination is a well-respected field of scientific study. Crimes such as forgeries and counterfeiting are on the rise. As these increases so does the need for the field of questioned documents. This field allows us to analyze handwriting, forgeries, typescript documents, and counterfeits, which makes it essential to forensic science. This lesson and lab teaches how to identify counterfeit and forged documents.

View Resource

Unit 3: Using Scientific Methods and Reasoning

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_23.png?itok=JWLczU3m Lesson Plan: Firearms and Tool Marks
Resource ID: 13598
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

In some cases, a single bullet or tool mark can reveal many clues that will eventually lead investigators to a suspect. This lesson familiarizes students with firearms/tools marks and its analysis.

View Resource

Unit 3: Using Scientific Methods and Reasoning

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_15.png?itok=Yke831gz Lesson Plan: Controlled Substances
Resource ID: 13594
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

This lesson will identify and categorize controlled substances and common drugs, and show how forensic science is used to fight crimes of this type.

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Unit 4: Evidence Collection

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_37.png?itok=1aYWbdRn Lesson Plan: Legal Systems
Resource ID: 13567
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

In this lesson, students will understand the importance of crime scene evidence and the different divisions who handle evidence from collection to courtroom.

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Unit 4: Evidence Collection

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_50px-Icon_6.png?itok=-o955p6F Lesson Plan: Crime Scene Investigation
Resource ID: 13569
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

In this lesson, students learn about various critical steps like obtaining, photographing, and preserving evidence at a crime scene. This lesson also, encourages an understanding of crime scene investigation, that is crucial for the forensic scientist to further analyze the crime and suspect.

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Unit 4: Evidence Collection

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Resource ID: 13578
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

In this lesson, students get an overview of paint elements and the steps involved in forensic paint analysis. The lesson also includes a paint layer determination lab.

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Unit 4: Evidence Collection

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Resource ID: 13580
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

Impression evidence found at the crime scene often provides important investigative leads. In addition to defining class characteristics, it can also provide unique, individual characteristics that may lead to a specific source. This lesson is a lab in which students explore footwear impressions. The lab instructions are included, as well as quizzes and rubrics. 

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Unit 4: Evidence Collection

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Unit 5: Processing and Analyzing Trace Evidence

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Resource ID: 13571
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

Glass fragments located at a crime scene can be essential to determining the identity and sometimes the location of a suspect. However, in all cases, the forensic scientist is required to draw comparison samples and determine the class or category of the glass sample or glass fragment. In this lesson, students will research glass analysis procedures, glass collection and preservation techniques.

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Unit 5: Processing and Analyzing Trace Evidence

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_32.png?itok=kFx53WFN Lesson Plan: Trace Evidence - Hair and Fiber
Resource ID: 13574
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

Trace evidence examination is often challenged in court for its uncertainty. Nonetheless, characterization of hair and fiber evidence has played an important role in providing investigative leads in many criminal cases. It is not to be replaced in its entirety by DNA analysis, but to be used complimentarily with other disciplines and technology in forensic science. Students will learn about hair and fiber evidence through hair scale lab, hair microscopy lab, and fiber examination lab. Student lab handbook included.

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Unit 5: Processing and Analyzing Trace Evidence

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_37.png?itok=1aYWbdRn Lesson Plan: Forensic Use of Light
Resource ID: 13576
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

In this lesson, students learn how to use a UV light to collect evidence. Students will complete a lab experience to better understand this process.

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Unit 5: Processing and Analyzing Trace Evidence

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_35.png?itok=qLPjMEqp Lesson Plan: Questioned Documents
Resource ID: 13596
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

Document examination is a well-respected field of scientific study. Crimes such as forgeries and counterfeiting are on the rise. As these increases so does the need for the field of questioned documents. This field allows us to analyze handwriting, forgeries, typescript documents, and counterfeits, which makes it essential to forensic science. This lesson and lab teaches how to identify counterfeit and forged documents.

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Unit 6: Impression Evidence

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Resource ID: 13582
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

This lesson gives students an introduction to fingerprinting and includes the history and development of fingerprinting.

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Unit 6: Impression Evidence

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Resource ID: 13586
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

In this lesson, students will learn about the different types of fingerprints and the chemicals used to pick them up at crime scenes. A lab is included. 

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Unit 6: Impression Evidence

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Resource ID: CSLP01

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Unit 7: Blood Spatter Analysis

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_26.png?itok=SErlAacA Lesson Plan: Forensic Serology
Resource ID: 13588
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

This lesson introduces students to forensic serology. Forensic serology is the detection and the classification of various types of human bodily fluids such as blood, semen, and saliva. Serology can also involve the identification of bloodstain patterns at a crime scene, which can not only tell who was present at the scene, but possibly what happened there.

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Unit 7: Blood Spatter Analysis

/sites/default/files/styles/linkit_result_thumbnail/public/resources/icons/12_LPSCS_cmyk_300px-Icon_23.png?itok=JWLczU3m Lesson Plan: Firearms and Tool Marks
Resource ID: 13598
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

In some cases, a single bullet or tool mark can reveal many clues that will eventually lead investigators to a suspect. This lesson familiarizes students with firearms/tools marks and its analysis.

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Unit 8: Toxicology Laboratory Procedures

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Resource ID: 13592
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

In this lesson, students will learn about forensic toxicology, the role of the toxicologist, collecting and preserving toxicological evidence, and techniques used to measure toxicology. Students will also conduct a chromatography lab and compute blood alcohol levels.

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Unit 8: Toxicology Laboratory Procedures

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Unit 9: Serology Laboratory Procedures

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Resource ID: 13588
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

This lesson introduces students to forensic serology. Forensic serology is the detection and the classification of various types of human bodily fluids such as blood, semen, and saliva. Serology can also involve the identification of bloodstain patterns at a crime scene, which can not only tell who was present at the scene, but possibly what happened there.

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Unit 9: Serology Laboratory Procedures

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Unit 10: Analyzing DNA

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Unit 11: Identifying Drugs

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Unit 12: Bullet and Tool Mark Impressions

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Unit 13: Questioned Document Analysis

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Unit 14: Anthropology and Forensic Science

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Resource ID: 13600
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

In this lesson, students will learn about forensic anthropology, excavation, forensic odontology, decomposition, and forensic entomology. Students will conduct a human anthropology lab, forensic odontology lab, and forensic entomology lab.

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Unit 14: Anthropology and Forensic Science

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Unit 15: Decomposition of the Human Body

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Resource ID: 13600
Grade Range: 11, 12
Institution: UNT

In this lesson, students will learn about forensic anthropology, excavation, forensic odontology, decomposition, and forensic entomology. Students will conduct a human anthropology lab, forensic odontology lab, and forensic entomology lab.

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Unit 15: Decomposition of the Human Body

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