Forensics: Connecting Science Investigations with TI Data Collection Activities

The book contains 14 lab activities dealing with various aspects of forensic science. The activities span a wide range of subject matter and conceptual difficulty. They are arranged in order of the increasing complexity of the calculator skills required. Most activities suggest ways to increase or decrease difficulty or teaching time.

Each lab is preceded by a short scenario that introduces the concepts or methods to be addressed in the lab. These introductory sequences are designed to “hook” the students and show them situations that require various forensic techniques. The Case Analysis questions for each activity relate to the concepts and techniques addressed in the lab, and many require the students to “solve” the crime introduced in the scenario with the data they collect.