Become a forensic scientist! Students work as a team to analyze evidence to determine who stole a valuable object.

Virtual Crime Lab

For Grades 4-8

  • Live via Zoom or Google Meet
  • Capacity: 35 students
  • Duration: 45
  • Cost: $200
  • Offered Tuesdays through Fridays at a flexible time based on your schedule
  • No special materials required

Lab goals

During every session we aim to have students reach understanding and have fun along the way!

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

Career pathways we will explore

  • Meteorologist
  • Atmospheric scientist
  • Climatologist
  • Research assistant
  • Environmental scientist
  • Explore More Careers

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

All of 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
  • 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

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