Topic: Introduction to Forensic Science Level 4 Level 3 Level 2 Level 1 In addition to score 3.0 performance, the student demonstrates in-depth inferences and applications that go beyond what was taught. Students will: Implement the 7 S’s(secure the scene, separate the witnesses, scan the scene, seeing the scene, sketching the scene, searching for evidence, securing and collecting evidence) in a mock crime scene Analyze a crime scene and generate questions based on informative pieces of evidence. Distinguish between relevant and irrelevant evidence and discuss the validity and value of different types of information including eye witness testimony. Students will: Recognize or recall specific vocabulary such as: Forensics, CSI Effect, Locard’s Exchange Principle, types of evidence: physical, testimonial, class, individual, circumstantial, direct. Basic knowledge such as: Explain the impact of the CSI Effect on people’s perceptions. Classify different types of evidence Describe the participants of forensic investigations performance reflects insufficient progress towards foundational skills and knowledge.
Level 4 Level 3 Level 2 Level 1 In addition to score 3.0 performance, the student demonstrates in-depth inferences and applications that go beyond what was taught. Students will: Use modeling to describe human blood types. Use mathematical techniques to interpret blood spatter at a crime scene. Investigate factors that affect blood spatter and create rules that describe the observed relationship. Create a model to determine the severity of punishment related to different schedules of drugs under the Controlled Substance Act. Make and defend a claim about the value of forensic serology in the courtroom. Students will: Recognize or recall specific vocabulary such as: Serology, red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, plasma, Punnett square, antibodies, antigens, agglutination, point of origin, DNA, blood spatter, angle of impact, gel electrophoresis, toxicology Basic knowledge such as: Describe basic functions of each component of blood. Describe the varying structures of red blood cells that create the different blood types. Analyze blood spatter. Interpret DNA test results. Classify drugs based on individual characteristics. performance reflects insufficient progress towards foundational skills and knowledge. Topic: The Data of Death
Level 4 Level 3 Level 2 Level 1 In addition to score 3.0 performance, the student demonstrates in-depth inferences and applications that go beyond what was taught. Students will: Make a claim about postmortem interval based on quantitative data. Apply knowledge of entomological factors to crime scene investigation. Use models to predict information for a biological profile such as the sex, age, origin, stature, and cause of death of skeletal remains. Students will: Recognize or recall specific vocabulary such as: Forensic entomology, postmortem interval (PMI), rigor mortis, algor mortis, livor mortis Basic knowledge such as: Describe the major changes that happen to a body after death. Describe the progression of entomological activity that occurs after death. (For example: insect life cycle and species succession.) Name/identify the major bones in the human skeleton. Use a graphic organizer to communicate the differences among various types of skeletons. performance reflects insufficient progress towards foundational skills and knowledge.