Description
High School Forensics Curriculum Bundle for one semester (90+ days)! Includes seven full forensic units, three projects, hands on labs and activities, review games, review questions, assessments for each unit, and a final exam.
Teaching Forensic Science with this Bundle is STRESS FREE! Most of these resources are NO PREP and can be student independent. Many labs and activities include digital and hands on options. All assessments and review question sets are self grading on Google Forms. Comprehensive Teaching Guides and answer keys for everything!
Click HERE to see the detailed Pacing Guide that comes with this Bundle.
Curriculum Sample:
Click here for a sample of the Interactive Google Slides and notes to see how the curriculum is designed! This link will prompt you to make a copy of the sample slides so that you can interact with them like your students will.
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How Students Learn with this Forensics Curriculum:
Each unit provides your students with Interactive Google Slides, that ask them to drag and drop, label, sort objects, watch video clips and answer questions. These can be 100% student led, or used for lecture, or a combination of both!
As they go though the Slides, students complete guided notes. These are not just fill in the black, copy and paste! The notes ask meaningful questions about what they are learning, and act as another way for students to use the content they are learning from the slides. Everything students need to complete the notes is included in the Slides!
Once students have completed the notes, they are ready to use their new skills! Units include sets of Interactive Google Slides that allow them to find and manipulate evidence to solve cases. These are NO PREP and fully student led – just print the case sheets for them to complete as they move through the interactive slides!
Units also include hands-on labs using inexpensive, easy to find materials that you can use year after year. Teaching guides give detailed instructions for how to set up and execute the labs, often with multiple ideas depending on your time, budget, and student constraints.
Every unit comes with Google Forms review questions and assessments that are easily editable, and self grading!
This Curriculum Bundle also includes a curated list of Forensic Files episodes, organized by type of evidence. Make every Friday a Forensic File Friday and show your students how CSI find and analyze evidence on real cases! Students complete the provided true crime work sheet as they watch to keep them engaged and focused on the important parts of the episode.
Sprinkled throughout the 90 day Forensics Curriculum are three fun projects!
Full instructions and comprehensive Rubric included for each one!
- Crime Scene Processing Project (part of Crime Scene Basics Unit)
- Forensic Careers Project – great intro to Forensic Science
- Innocence Project (part of DNA Unit)
Seven Full Units:
Forensics Basics Unit:
- Interactive Google Slides and Notes
- Learn about eyewitness evidence
- Processing the crime scene
- Sketching the crime scene notes and activity
- Evidence collection notes and activity
- Crime scene photography notes and activity
- Crime Scene Processing Project!
- Review Game
- Unit Assessment
Blood Spatter Unit:
- Blood typing teaching slides, notes, lab and review
- Blood spatter notes and review
- Blood spatter analysis activity
- Blood spatter lab
- Blood Evidence Review Game
- Unit Assessment
Fingerprints Unit:
- Bertillon System activity and introduction to fingerprints
- Fingerprints teaching slides, notes, review and activity
- Fingerprint collection teaching slides, notes , review and activity
- Learn more about fingerprints: Answer interesting questions like can a criminal alter his prints? How long do they last after death? Plus a mini-research project.
- Fun and quirky Review Game! No prep!
- Unit Assessment
DNA Evidence Unit:
- Forensic DNA Evidence teaching slides and notes and review questions
- Make a digital DNA Fingerprint and solve a murder case!
- Innocence Project project! Student research and presentation
- Fun and quirky Review Game, no prep!
- Unit Test
Ballistics Evidence Unit:
- Ballistics Evidences teaching slides, notes and review questions
- Ballistics digital activity – collect and analyze evidence to solve a shooting case!
- Case Study: The Shooting of Trayvon Martin
- Case Study: The Shooting of JFK
- Fun and quirky Review Game! No prep!
- Unit Assessment
Tire Impression Evidence Unit:
- Teaching slides, notes and review questions
- Tire Impression matching activity
- Skid mark teaching slides, notes and digital activity
- Unit Review Game
- Unit Assessment
Forensic Death Investigation Unit:
- Teaching slides, notes, activity and review
- Autopsy terms teaching slides, notes and play doh activity
- Autopsy Form activity
- Investigate and determine the time sense death activity
- Five stages of decay teaching slides and notes
- Secrets of the Body Farm video guide
- Forensic Entomology teaching slides, notes and activity
- Forensic Anthropology teaching slides, notes and activity
- Fun and quirky review game
- Unit Assessment
Additional Resources Included:
- Forensic Files Organized List – find the perfect episode by topic!
- True Crime notes sheet – for students to complete while watching a True Crime video
- Final Forensics Exam: 44 multiple choice questions on a self grading Google Form – easy to edit!
See what teachers are saying about the Full Year Forensics Curriculum!
Here are just a few reviews of the products in this bundle:
This is one of best lessons I have bought on TPT!!! Very easy to follow, and very informative. Everything is ready and there is no planning required. THANK YOU!
– That Ontario Teacher
Forensic Anthropology Death Investigation: Notes + Activity
I used this for distance learning within my Forensics Unit and it was EXTREMELY helpful. It was full of great graphics and crime scene scenarios that gave a great overall lesson on blood typing as class evidence, and blood spatter at a crime scene. I will definitely use it in years to come with my forensics unit.
– Carolyn K.
Blood Spatter and Blood Evidence Unit Bundle
This was an excellent activity. While it took us several days to get through it all, the students were very attentive and engaged. We stopped and discussed after each section, and the students came up with some great ideas and theories about what was going on, motive, etc–even some things I hadn’t even considered!
– Katherine S.
Arson Investigation
My students love to use tech for learning and were very engaged with this set of interactive notes. I love that it requires them to work within the Google Slides and that I can check their progress as they go.
– Science with Mrs Pea
Forensics Death Investigation: Notes, Activity, Review
All products in the High School Forensic Science Curriculum include a FULL KEY and Teaching Guide!
What some happy teachers are saying about this resource in our Teachers Pay Teachers store: (these are for the full year curriculum, this is a brand new Bundle so no reviews yet!)
Thank you! I was assigned to teach Forensics this year and was so overwhelmed with sorting through topics to develop the curriculum. This bundle saved me! It has everything I need to teach a full year curriculum! So worth it!!! – Jan E.
My students are finishing up the Crime Scene Basics unit and at the beginning of the unit, I was concerned that they were bored to tears. I, thankfully, was completely wrong! They are wrapping up their videos and are having a blast! We even had our resource officer “arrest” the bad guys – wailing sirens and a chase and handcuffs and everything. SO much fun and engaging! They can’t wait until the next unit – they decided they wanted impressions next. Thank you for such a great curriculum and content! – Victoria W.
I love this bundle. My students, who are learners with various disabilities have been so engaged in the lessons. Participation has been excellent. The support from Science Curiosity has been top-notch! I recommend this bundle to EVERYONE!! – Lisa C.
This bundle is full of great activities for any forensics class. I like the planning documents that have links to all the products and an order to work through. I look forward to seeing the next activities that will be added to it. – Ms B.
I found that most students enjoy the mix of virtual and hands-on learning opportunities that this bundle provides! Each component is laid out clearly with specific teacher guides that help me plan my days. – Hannah G.
This resource finally filled all the gaps I could not fill using textbook resources in my new Forensics elective science class. It has made preparing every lesson a dream and students are super engaged for each activity. – Denise E.
This bundle is EVERYTHING you need! I am a secondary science teacher, I was assigned a new class this semester and simply didn’t have the time to create a curriculum from scratch. I purchased this hoping for the best…. and it has been SO much more than I even hoped for! The notes outlines for students make sense. The keys are helpful. The unit is organized and *ready to go*. There are interactive parts to every lesson. My students have LOVED everything that we have done so far. THANK YOU! I will be buying more from “Science of Curiosity”. – D.H.
This resource is AWESOME. I have gotten a lot of return on investment. Other forensic units out there are way more expensive for something that won’t cooperate with Google Docs. – Mr. R.
This is by far the best resource I have purchased from TpT . The lessons are complete and are very interactive. My students have enjoyed digging into the material through readings, videos, and interactive crime scenes. This has been a great addition to my Forensic Science Class! – Cathy E.
The resources are thorough and well organized. I love that there are assessments that go with each of the bundles. I love that I have the option of doing all work digitally, virtually, or in person. I’ve used a lot the digital resources as make up assignments for students who are absent. Being able to have all of these resources really cuts down on my prep time. These resources are also more rigorous than many of the other resources I have looked at. – Samantha C.
The effort and workmanship, with engaging videos and cases to solve, is amazing and such a help with my science classes. – Allison B.
