This PowerPoint provides a taster into the work of a Detective/Forensic Scientist through an exciting murder mystery. Students will investigate the murder of Mr Gold by completing a number of tasks based on a particular evidence type: fingerprints, blood pattern analysis, footwear impressions, Fibers and DNA analysis.
Following this, they will be required to create a report detailing their decision as to who they think the murderer is, what was the possible motive and how at least three pieces of evidence supports this.
This PowerPoint can be adapted to suit your particular school/situation. The tasks should take majority of a lesson to complete so the report could be set as homework. It encourages students to work together in groups, as each student will have a different role to play whilst collectively making decisions.
Students are presented with the case details, then given the witness statements of the four possible suspected. After reading through these, they are asked to come up with a hypothesis as to who they think committed the crime, what might the motive be and what could the murder weapon be. Throughout the session they will use their initial hypothesis as a base, reflecting on how results of each evidence type may cause it to change, representing how detectives build a case based on different evidence.
Resources for each evidence type are included, each has a brief introduction, including information that the students will need to answer the tasks. Some of the tasks are interactive and use physical props, which will be highlighted on each resource. However, these are not necessary, and tasks can be completed without physical props as some schools may not have the ability to procure these.
This was initially created for British Science Week 2024 with the theme ‘Time’ so has lots of references to Time throughout, which is an important part of Forensic Science! However, it can just as easily be used as a Lesson, Science Club Activity etc.
Please let me know if you have any questions and enjoy introducing Forensic Science to your students!
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