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Designing Effective Projects: Forensics
Content Standards and Objectives
Targeted Content Standards and Benchmarks
National Science Education Standards
  • Design and conduct a science investigation
  • Use appropriate tools and technologies to gather, analyze, and interpret data
  • Develop descriptions, explanations, predictions, and models using evidence
  • Think critically and logically to make the relationships between evidence and explanations
National Standards for School Mathematics
  • Apply and adapt a variety of appropriate strategies to solve problems
  • Monitor and reflect on the process of mathematical problem solving
  • Select and use various types of reasoning and methods of proof
  • Recognize and apply mathematics in contexts outside of mathematics
Student Objectives
Students will be able to:
  • Analyze data and draw conclusions
  • Use the scientific process to solve a crime that took place in one's own classroom
  • Create a scale drawing
  • Use patterns to gain information
  • Understand how math is used in science to solve problems
  • Understand how science relates to criminal investigations
  • Become better investigators through questioning strategies
  • Develop group collaboration skills
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