Microanalysis in Science and Engineering

Title:Who Dunnit?

Subject: Forensic Science, incorporating biology and chemistry performance indicators

Contact Information

Anna Bryant, York Institute, bryantannae@hotmail.com

Cindy Taylor, Monterey High School, taylorc4@k12tn.net

Performance Indicators

Chemistry: 2.1 The student will research careers that relate to matter and energy such as surveyor, carpenter, structural engineer,HVAC technician, pathologist, etc.(TPI)

3.2 The student will analyze chemical reactions.(SPI)

Performance Indicators

Biology:Gateway Standard 1.0 The student will research careers that relate to the study of cells, such as microscopist, cytologist, and biochemist. (TPI)Gateway Standard 4.0 The student will investigate the structure and molecular composition of DNA. (SPI)

Textbook Reference(s)

Miller and Levine. Biology. Prentice Hall.Needham, Massachusetts.2002.

Dingrando, et. al. Chemistry: Matter and Change. Glencoe. New York, New York. 2002.

Media Materials Needed

TV, VCR, Flexcam, microscopes, internet, digital imaging media, Zip Disk, CD-RW and presentation software.

CATEGORY Excellent Good Satisfactory Needs Improvement

Presentation Well-rehearsed with smooth delivery that holds audience attention.

Rehearsed with fairly smooth delivery that holds audience attention most of the time.

Delivery not smooth, but able to maintain interest of the audience most of the time.

Delivery not smooth and audience attention often lost.

Attractiveness Makes excellent use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. to enhance the presentation.

Makes good use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. to enhance to presentation.

Makes use of font, color, graphics, effects, etc. but occasionally these detract from the presentation content.

Use of font, color, graphics, effects etc. but these often distract from the presenation content.

Content Covers topic in-depth with details and examples. Subject knowledge is excellent.

Includes essential knowledge about the topic. Subject knowledge appears to be good.

Includes essential information about the topic but there are 1-2 factual errors.

Content is minimal OR there are several factual errors.

Mechanics No misspellings or grammatical errors. Three or fewer misspellings and/or mechanical errors.

Four misspellings and/or grammatical errors.

More than 4 errors in spelling or grammar.

Organization Content is well organized using headings or bulleted lists to group related material.

Uses headings or bulleted lists to organize, but the overall organization of topics appears flawed.

Content is logically organized for the most part.

There was no clear or logical organizational structure, just lots of facts.

Oral Presentation Interesting, well-rehearsed with smooth delivery that holds audience attention.

Relatively interesting, rehearsed with a fairly smooth delivery that usually holds audience attention.

Delivery not smooth, but able to hold audience attention most of the time.

Delivery not smooth and audience attention lost.

Rubric

Special Notes

A special thanks to: Dr. Joe Biernacki, Dr. Chris Wilson, Dr. Larry

Knox, Dr. Margaret Phelps, Richard Gregory, Mark Evans,Kumar,Wayne Hawkins and Tennessee Tech University, for putting up with the antics of our group.

Title Page for Classroom

Excite

A crime has been committed. By solving the crime, you and your partner will receive a promotion and reward for your efforts. You must achieve detective status before solving the “WHO DUNNIT?” crime.

Please click on the following link to advance to detective:

http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/mspot/

Explore

To achieve the rank of Detective John Q. Student, please explore the following link to advance to detective:

http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/mspot/

Please return for further instructions.

Explain

Congratulations! You have been promoted to detective status.

A crime has been committed. You must use all the resources available to you to find the perpetrator for prosecution. Remember, whoever solves the crime will be rewarded handsomely and you must keep the details of this case confidential. Be ready to present your evidence to the Grand Jury so that justice will prevail.

Begin your investigation by clicking on the following link: http://www.cyberbee.com/whodunnit/crimescene.html

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Gathering evidence:– Fingerprinting http://www.cyberbee.com/whodunnit/fp.html

– Powder Analysis http://www.cyberbee.com/whodunnit/powder.html

– Teeth Impressions http://www.cyberbee.com/whodunnit/teeth.html

– Foot to Height Ratio http://www.cyberbee.com/whodunnit/foot.html

Determine the culprit from the list of suspects.

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Gunshot residue (SEM Images)

www.jeol.com/sem/docs/forensic.pdf

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DNA Structures

http://www.lecb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/LeftHanded.DNA.html

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Fingerprinting (SEM Image)

http://www.xs4all.nl/~dacty/newpage12.htm

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Powder Analysis

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/moviegallery/chemicalcrystals/sodiumcarbonate/index.html

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Teeth Impressions

http://www.charfac.umn.edu/MMS/ProjectMicro/Explorations/Jan1998.html

Extend

Research the possible careers that are necessary to perform a criminal investigation.

http://library.thinkquest.org/27224/ http://www.crime-scene-investigator.net/csi-training.html http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/Articles/forensics.html

Examine

Present your findings to the Grand Jury in the form of a Power Point presentation.

Images (conventional or digital) of your evidence must be included.

Be ready to answer any questions that the Grand Jury may pose to you.

Exchange

Court TV websitehttp://www.courttv.com

Teacher websiteshttp://www.aafs.orghttp://www.streetlaw.org

Alternative Assessment

Interactive Quiz You will be given most of the facts of a

number of true crimes committed during the 20th century and you are to deduct “Who Dunnit?”.

http://www.parmaq.com/truecrime/quiz.htm

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