Real-life CSI - An Introduction to Forensic Science

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• critical thinking
• collaboration
• ethical understanding
• global citizenship
• problem solving

Australian Curriculum content descriptions: 

Year 10 Science:

• investigate how advances in technologies enable advances in science, and how science has contributed to developments in technologies and engineering (AC9S10H02)
• examine how the values and needs of society influence the focus of scientific research (AC9S10H04)

Syllabus outcomes: SC5-12ES, SC5-13ES

General capabilities: Critical and creative thinking, Ethical Understanding, Literacy

Relevant parts of Year 10 achievement standards: Students analyse the relationship between science, technologies and engineering. They analyse the key factors that influence interactions between science and society.

This lesson is part of the wider unit of work: Real-life CSI – Secondary 

Time required: 60 mins

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium – facilitated class discussion required

• article (optional): CSI effect’ has juries wanting more evidence
• device capable of presenting a video to the class
• sticky notes
• Student Worksheet (one copy per student)

This is an original Cool+ lesson.