Science & Technology 11

Download and complete the following intro assignment with your peers. Choose any type of transportation you want!

Transportation Intro Project

Please have a look at the following example of a DNA extraction and be comfortable with the stages involved.

DNA Extraction

If you missed class on Tuesday, May 20th please watch the TV show Bones, Episode #3, Boy in a Tree. While watching please complete the following form.

Bones Analysis

Once completed, please create a blog post on the following, “Considering all that you have learned over the past two weeks on forensics, what do you think about the reality of Bones and other crime scene shows?”

Please complete the following assignment on Chemical signatures. You will need to see me for resources on how to test for chemical substances or have a look at the resources list and read about testing chemical substances.

Following this please complete the following assignment and submit to Dawn. You will need to have a discussion with me regarding the crime!!

Chemical Substances

Everyone is in a group where their goal is to create a crime scene  that is solvable given the parameters of the classroom and the course content.

Tasks:

Step 1: Agree on a crime scene that you all want to create

Step 2: Create a list of resources that you are going to need to set up your crime scene

Step 3: Consider the evidence that you are going to plant. Items to consider: foot prints, insects, fibres, bones, car pieces, weapons.

Step 4: Are there any items/ facts that you need to handout or record close to the crime scene as background information that will support the solving of the crime?

Step 5: Create the scene and people!

Groups:

Iliana, Dyan, Toni

Josh, Rebecca, Kelly

Mike, Salem, Marshall

Rylie, Janelle, Eamon

You’re hiking in the woods when you come upon the body of a young woman half hidden in the bushes. Her hair is drenched with blood and she isn’t breathing. You call 9-1-1. Soon the authorities arrive on the scene. Emergency personnel check the victim for signs of life. Then the police tape off the area so no one can get in or out. Identification officers then comb the area for evidence.

Next, the coroner arrives and confirms the victim is dead. Her body is placed in a long plastic bag and is removed from the crime scene. Later, at the morgue, a forensic pathologist examines the body for more evidence and a cause of death. Among other things, he finds a bullet. Later at the lab, firearms experts determine that the bullet was fired from a gun belonging to the victim’s husband. A forensic chemist also uncovers traces of fresh gunpowder on the husband’s clothing. Shoeprints from the scene are also found to match the husband’s.

Is the husband guilty? It’s sure beginning to look like it – the evidence is mounting against him.

(OpenSchool BC 2009: Science and Technology 11)

Assignment:

Murder on Mayberry Street