SEMESTER ONE 

1st Grading Period

AUGUST

Week One:    Aug 15-16  Overview of Forensics  Chp. 1

Aug 15                                                     Introduction/ syllabus/ Curried Egg Murder/textbook collection

Aug 16                                                    Animal Cruelty /Observation skills : Pick a Penny / Work on Cornell 

                                                                  notes Chp 1 orange book

Aug  19                                                   Forensic Science  career jigsaw   Chp 1 Notes on Forensics                 

Week Two    Aug 19- 23   Hair  Chp. 3 Book 1

Aug  19                                                   Cornell Notes Hair / Videos  : Much Ado about Hair (Its OK to be smart)         

Aug  20                                                   Field of view Lab + How to use a microscope + Begin Animal Hair Lab  

Aug  21-22                                             Finish Hair Lab  / Skin Worksheet/ Hair Worksheet

Aug 23                                                    Finish Cornell Notes Hair / Alma Tirtsche Murder in Google classroom

Week Three   Aug 27- 30    Hair    Chp. 3.  Book 1

Aug  28                                               Beaten By a Hair  -Forensic Flies video /  Hair Test Review/ Finish Alma Tirtsche

Aug 29                                                Solve a Crime using Hair

Aug 30                                                Test on Hair Evidence 

Week Four .   Sept 2-6     Chp 3 Forensic Laboratory Techniques Blue Book

Sept . 2                                             Public Holiday - No School

Sept   3                                            Types of Evidence Activity and Slides

Sept  4                                             Chromatography Lab Sealed with a Kiss

Sept 6                                              Finish Chromatography Lab Write up 

Week Five Sept 8th -  13       Begin Chp 10 Orange Book                           

Sept .  9                                         Cornell Notes on Chromatography  Chp 3 P72-78

 Sept 10                                         Chromatography Ink Lab 

Sept 11                                          Historical Development of Handwriting worksheet

Week Six     Sept   16 - 20   Chp 10 Forensic Orange Book

Sept  13                          Suspect Handwriting analysis (5 samples) 

 Sept 14                          Student Handwriting Analysis /Sample -Protractor and Rulers needed

                                        Analysis of Student handwriting Activity +colored pencils

Sept 16                           Handwriting analysis of  suspects and ransom note :Jon Benet                                                          

Sept 17                          Chp 10 - Forgery and Counterfeiting Cornell Notes/ 

                                       finish Chp 10 Suspect Handwriting  analysis of ransom 

                                      Chp 10 Review questions . P331 .

END OF GRADING PERIOD

Week Seven                Sept 23-27  

Sept 23                                               Pre-test on Currency Currency Lecture and notes 

Sept 24                                               $1 and $10 Bill Activity                            

Sept 25/ 26                                       Finish Currency  Activity 

Sept 27                                              Cornell Notes P 518-522  / handwriting review

Week Eight                 Sept 30 -  Oct 4  Crime scene

Sept 30                       HANDWRITING AND Currency Test

Oct 1                                                  Breaking Bad Crime Scene Protocols

Oct 2   Begin Breaking Bad crime scene/ Foot Impression slides + worksheet

Oct 3/5                                              Breaking Bad crime scene / Others are doing notes on Foot impressions

 Oct 4                                                Work on Final Sketch .  Doors and windows/ Begin tables and chairs

Send out a reminder to teachers to bring in an old pair of sneakers for the crime scene.

Week Nine                    Oct 7-11  Mock Crime Scene 

Oct 7                                                   Crime scene and Work on Final Sketch draft- making a scale

Oct 8-9                                               Crime scene Breaking Bad / Tire interactive slides

Oct 11     Crime scene and Measuring for the sketch

          Explain protocol for the CSI competition. 

  Winning team do not need to take the final in Dec. Automatic 100%

                     Begin the competition on Monday or Friday. Check with teachers!

Remind students about bringing in a cardboard box for Dollouses of Death

Week Ten                    Oct 14-18 

Oct 14                                         Work on final sketch

Oct 15-16                                   Finish final sketch today and put into black ink

Oct 17                                        Frances Glessner Lee and Webquest

Oct 18                                       Brainstorm ideas for the Dollhouse : google classroom                                                                                          

Week Eleven                Oct 21-25   

Oct 21                                           Work on the floor and walls of their box   

Oct 22                                            Students collect objects for crime scene  

Oct 23                                            Work on dollhouses 

Oct 25                                            Work on Dollhouses                                  

END OF GRADING PERIOD

Week TWELVE          Oct  28-Nov 1    

Oct 28                                     Work on Dollhouses 

NOV 1                                           Work on Dollhouses

Nov 2                                           Work on Dollhouses 

Nov 5     Gallery Walk of Doll houses of Death 

Week THIRTEEN         Nov 4-8  

Nov 4                                          Lecture on fingerprints

Nov 5                                          Fingerprint worksheet 

Nov 6                                          Fingerprint Lab using invisible ink

Nov 8                                          Fingerprint review

Week Fourteen            Nov 11-15  DNA Analysis

Nov 11                                                Veterans Day Holiday

Nov 12-13                                         Fingerprint test

Nov 14                                               Cold Cases and the Law

Nov 15                                               Forensic Files : Sex , Lies and DNA

Week Fifteen            Nov 18-22  

Nov  18                                             Basic Review of DNA

Nov  19-20                                       OJ Simpson Trial - Innocent or Guilty  

Nov  21                                            Finish DNA evidence on OJ Simpson/  DNA Solves a case. 

Nov  22                                           Golden State Killer 

Thanksgiving Break  Nov 25-29

Week Sixteen            Dec 2-6 

Dec 2 Cornell notes DNA Chp 10

Dec 3                                               Micropipetting Lab - use different shape cards than 9th grade

Dec 4                                               STR's / CSI Cool Change Video

Dec 6                                               The Innocence Project  :Google classroom

Week  Seventeen      Dec 9-13  

Dec 9     The Last Dauphin lecture and notes

Dec 10                                            DNA Gel Electrophotesis Lab

Dec 11 Reading the DNA gel and logorithic graph

Dec 13                                            DNA Review 

Week Eighteen        Dec 16-20  Finals Week

Dec 16                      Exam Review  Packet

Dec 17                      Exam Review    Grudgeball

Dec 18                       Period 1 and 2

Dec 19                       Period 3 and 4

Dec 20                      Period 5 and 6

Winter Break          Dec 21- Jan 6