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
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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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