Description
These tire track evidence activities give students a chance to get hands-on experience with this fun forensic evidence. Tire Track evidence is sometimes hard to produce for a classroom setting – cars are big, mud is muddy, rain washes tread patterns away. These two activities bring tracks and tread patterns to your forensics classroom in an easy – low mess way!
Activity 1: Tire Tracks on Paper
Students use toy cars to paint tire tracks on paper. They practice finding and measuring wheel base, track width, and turning diameter with the tracks.
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Step by step student instructions for how to do the activity
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Google Slide set with examples to show students
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Student Question sheet
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Key
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Teaching Guide
Additional Materials needed:
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Three colors of paint
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Some way to dispense the paint to student pairs (a dab of each color on a paper plate works!)
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At least one paint brush per pair
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Scrap paper (at least four sheets per student pair)
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One small toy car per pair
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Paper towels or wipes
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rulers
Activity 2: Unknown Tracks
Instructions show you how to set up ‘unknown’ tire tread rubbings that students match to real tires in the school parking lot.
Resource includes:
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Student sheet to record answers
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Teaching Guide
Additional Materials needed:
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scrap paper
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dark colored crayon
I always look forward to these activities in my Forensics course! Students really get into it and have a lot of fun!
This blog post goes into detail about how to use the Tire Track Activities in your Forensic Science class!
Click here to see a preview of Two Hands-On Tire Track Activities .
See what other teaches love about this Two Hands-On Tire Track Activities on Teachers Pay Teachers
This was a great hands-on lab for my elective. It was entertaining to watch them do, too. 🙂 – Amanda C.
My students really loved this activity. This was definitely an engaging activity. It helped them to review analyzing tire marks and they also just liked making the prints. – Caitlyn A.
Love this resource! I was having difficulty coming up with a lab that I could feasibly do in class and this was a perfect easy set up lab. plus the kids loved it as well! – Sarah F.
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