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Instructions
This WebQuest is intended for high school forensic science students. While it is designed so that students can progress at their own speed, students might need extra practice calculating trajectory angles. For example, the embedded video mentions angles of depression (if a shooter is aiming down) but making those calculations was not included in the video.
To ensure that students don't all use the same measurements when doing their calculations, it is recommended that the teach change some of the initial numbers so that different suspects turn out to be the shooter.
Learning Standards
Students will evaluate the role of ballistics, tool marks and evidence of arson in forensic investigation.
a. Identify firearm lab tests used to distinguish the characteristics of ballistics and cartridge cases.
b. Analyze the physics of ballistic trajectory to predict range of firing.
c. Recognize the forensic significance of tool marks, footwear and tire impressions in an investigation.
ISTE Standards
Empowered Learner
Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals, informed by the learning sciences. Students:
a. articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes.
b. build networks and customize their learning environments in ways that support the learning process.
c. use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.
d. understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose, use and troubleshoot current technologies and are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies.
Knowledge Constructor
Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others. Students:
a. plan and employ effective research strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits.
b. evaluate the accuracy, perspective, credibility and relevance of information, media, data or other resources.
c. curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections of artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions.
d. build knowledge by actively exploring real-world issues and problems, developing ideas and theories and pursuing answers and solutions.