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Forensic Science for High School Fourth Edition

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The Forensic Science for High School, Fourth Edition continues to provide everything educators love with a unique approach to teaching science. The curriculum is filled with newly updated exercises to build students' understanding, develop critical thinking skills, and assess their progress through authentic, real-world scenarios. Each chapter includes background information, exploratory activities, lab investigations, career connections, performance assessments, and more!

What’s new in the Fourth Edition:

  • New design layout
  • Updated and additional case studies
  • Updated and additional Student Sheets
  • New Career Connection section at the end of each chapter highlighting various careers in forensic science
  • Added content on Forensic Genetic Genealogy
  • New content on Cybercrime
  • Diablo Highway: Online interactive forensic lab (Subscription included with purchase of the Fourth Edition)
  • A more comprehensive Teacher Edition including discussion questions, background notes, suggested additional activities, implementation tips and bonus case studies

Components
Student Edition and Teacher Edition + Online resources are available.

Instructional Options
This program is designed with a variety of teaching options in mind. The program can be offered as a one-year or a one-semester science course, or applicable units and chapters can be pulled out to use in relevant science courses. The writing and content of this text target high school, but many ideas and activities can be adapted to middle school, as well as to non-science majors in two- and four-year colleges.

 

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Diablo HighwayTM is a virtual crime simulation based on a real, unsolved double-homicide from the 1930s. Students begin by reading about the crime, observing associated primary source documents, and exploring the two virtual crime scenes to find and collect evidence. This evidence is used by students to complete the subsequent lessons, each of which focuses on analyzing a specific type of evidence. The lessons each include a reading, quiz, and digital lab activity.

There are nine lessons on various types of evidence:

  • Blood Typing
  • Hair Analysis
  • Fingerprint Analysis
  • DNA Profiling
  • Shoe Impressions
  • Tire Impressions
  • Fiber Analysis
  • Firearms Identification
  • Crime Scene Mapping

These lessons integrate seamlessly into the Forensic Science for High School Fourth Edition textbook, with each lesson pairing with a chapter in the textbook. Lessons in Diablo Highway can be completed in any order after students have read the initial lesson about the crime and collected evidence from the virtual crime scenes. This allows flexibility and autonomy for the instructor to teach the chapters and concepts in the order that works best for them and their students. Upon completing all lessons, students attempt to solve the crime, identifying the culprit from the list of suspects using evidence they have collected. Finally, students compose a report stating their rationale for the suspect they selected. A suggested implementation guide is included in the Teacher Edition of the Forensic Science for High School Fourth Edition textbook.

 

Requirements
This is an online activity that students access via a web browser on any device connected to the internet including desktops, laptops, tablets, Chromebooks or smartphones.

 

About the Creators
Learn Engines is a company dedicated to a better way to learn. They make lab activities that are real world, virtual world & most importantly fun!

 

All purchases of the new Forensic Science for High School Fourth Edition include digital licenses for Diablo Highway.

 

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