Explore the connection between science and crime scene evidence by experimenting with forensic science techniques.
Crime Lab
For grades 3 – 8
- Location: Griffin MSI
- Capacity: 32 students
- Duration: 45 minutes
- Cost: $240
- Offered Tuesday and Thursday at 10:15 and 11:45 a.m.
- This lab can be done concurrently. We can accommodate up to four groups per day (depending on availability).
Lab goals
Provide a hands-on, student-led activity to spark interest in science and expose students to different career pathways.
Student outcomes
- Have an increased awareness of STEM careers
- Understand the connection between ideas explored and careers that involve forensic science
- Actively engage in inquiry-based science investigation
- Work collaboratively with peers
- Communicate using accurate terminology/vocabulary
- Analyze findings, develop a hypothesis and communicate results of who they infer committed a crime
- Identify and describe methods of forensic science techniques including fingerprinting, chromatography, analyzing trace evidence and footwear, and powder analysis
Classroom connections
All of our Learning Labs are designed to integrate curriculum standards and connections into your classroom!
Common Core ELA/Literacy Standards
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.1, 3.3, 3.7, 3.10
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.7, 4.10
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.1, 5.2, 5.4, 5.7, 5.10
Next Generation Science Standards
Our Learning Labs are designed to integrate curriculum standards and connections into your classroom!
Science and Engineering Practices:
- Asking questions and defining problems
- Planning and carrying out investigations
- Analyzing and interpreting data
- Constructing explanations
- Engaging in argument from evidence
- Obtaining, evaluating and communicating information
Crosscutting Concepts
- Cause and effect
- Patterns
- Systems and system models
Disciplinary Core Ideas
- ETS2: Links among engineering, technology, science and society
- PS1.A: Structure and Properties of Matter
