While studying our “Crime Scene Investigation” chapter my students began learning about the steps in investigating a crime scene: how to collect evidence, how to create and use a chain of custody, and how to draw rough and detailed sketches of a crime scene. Throughout our discussions on each topic we shared how different television episodes and mystery book plots were examples of each idea. As we learned each topic we practiced by doing a hands-on project. For collecting evidence we: identified evidence, collected it using gloves and tweezers, bagged it in the appropriate type of container, sealed the container and then created a chain of custody. We measured and sketched our classroom and created a rough draft of our “crime scene”.
To culminate the chapter I created a scenario of an Evangel staff member having several arguments/altercations at work with one of them ending in his untimely death. I then planted evidence and clues, some of which where misleading, while others were critical to solving the case.
We had learned what the 8 types of evidence were and used our layman’s knowledge to investigate and catch a “killer”. As C.S.I. teams my class divided up the jobs of the investigation team members. Some took pictures (as they learned how to do in our text) while others collected and bagged evidence, still others interviewed witnesses and to notes to record and document the information so it could be used in a court of law. The groups took turns using their school ID’s to enter and exit the crime scene during their investigation. At the end of the lab period the “coroner” took away the body of the staff member and my C.S.I. teams when back to the “lab” to start sifting through the known and unknown evidence. I am happy to say that after all of their hard work, all teams were able to positively identify the “killer” or at least have the killer on their suspect list.
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