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Forensic Science
Scope and Sequence
Jefferson County Schools
Week
Objective
Week 1
Processing
the Crime
Scene
ACOS: 1,2
Knowledge:
The growth and development of forensic science through history.
Federal rules of evidence, including the Frye standard and the Daubert ruling.
Basic types of law in the criminal justice system.
Skill:
Describe how the scientific method is used to solve forensic science problems
Describe different jobs done by forensic scientists and the experts they consult.
Knowledge:
The steps to take when processing a crime scene
The type of evidence determines what packaging should be used.
Why the chain of custody must be preserved.
How a crime lab works.
Skills:
Isolate, record, and search for evidence at a mock crime scene
Collect and package evidence at a mock crime scene using proper forensic procedures.
Knowledge:
The value and significance of physical evidence in a court of law.
What physical evidence can and cannot prove in court.
That the forensic scientist’s main goal is to find a unique source for the evidence
Skills:
Describe what is meant by physical evidence and give examples.
Tell individual evidence apart from class evidence.
Determine the significance of class evidence
Knowledge:
How anthropologist can use bones to determine whether remains are human; to determine the sex, age,
and sometimes race of an individual; to estimate height; and to determine when the death may have
occurred.
Skill:
Week 2
Processing
the Crime
Scene
ACOS:1,2
Week 3
Processing
the Crime
Scene
ACOS: 1,2
Week 4
Post Mortem
Evidence:
Death
Investigation
Text
Reference
Chapter
One
pp. 1-26
Chapter
Two
pp. 34-54
Chapter 3
pp. 62-75
Chapter
1:
Introduction
pp. 18-22
Date
Taught
ACOS 6, 7,
and 8
Week 5
Post Mortem
Evidence:
Death
Investigation
ACOS 6, 7,
and 8
Week 6
Post Mortem
Evidence:
Death
Investigation
ACOS 6, 7,
and 8
Week 7
Post Mortem
Evidence:
Death
Distinguish between a male and a female skeleton.
Give an age range after examining unknown remains
Describe differences in skull features among the three major racial categories.
Estimate height by measuring long bones.
Describe livor mortis, rigor mortis, and algor mortis.
Use mathematics to improve investigations and communications.
Knowledge:
How entomologist can use insects to determine time of death.
Skill:
Use mathematics to improve investigations and communications
Knowledge:
How to apply deductive reasoning to a series of analytical data.
The relationship between the electromagnetic spectrum and the spectroscopic analysis
The difference between qualitative and quantitative analysis
The dangers of using prescription drugs, controlled substances, over the counter medications, and alcohol.
Skills:
Chemically identify illicit drug types.
Classify the types of illicit drugs and their negative effects.
Discuss the federal penalties for possession and use of controlled substances.
Explain the need for confirmatory test.
Describe IR, UV-VIS spectroscopy, and GC-Ms, and explain how they are used in forensic science.
Present and interpret data with graphs.
Use technology and math to improve investigations and communications.
Knowledge:
The danger of using alcohol
The quantitative approach to toxicology.
Skills:
*Other
Resources
and Lab
Supplements
Needed
Chapter 1:
Introduction
*supplements
needed
pp. 18-22
*Other
Resources
and Lab
Supplements
Needed
Chapter 9
pp. 233263
Chapter
10
pp. 264295
Investigation
ACOS 6, 7,
and 8
Week 8
Pattern
Evidence
ACOS: 2, 3,
9
Week 9
Pattern
Evidence
ACOS: 2, 3,
9
Week 10
Biological
Evidence
ACOS 4, 5
Week 11
Biological
Evidence
ACOS 4, 5
Week 12
Biological
Discuss the connection of blood alcohol levels to the law, incapacity, and test results.
Understand the vocabulary of poisons.
Design and conduct scientific investigations.
Use technology and math to improve investigations and communications.
Knowledge:
Why fingerprints are individual evidence.
Why there may be no fingerprint evidence at a crime scene.
How computers have made personal identification easier.
Skill:
Define the three basic properties that allow individual identification by fingerprints.
Recognize the general ridge patterns (loops, whorls, and arches and apply them to the primary Henry-FBI
classification.
Tell the differences among latent, plastic, and visible fingerprints.
Knowledge:
Distinguish between firearm identification and ballistics.
Why tool marks and impressions are considered as class evidence
Identification of Firearms
Collection and Preservation of Firearm
Evidence
Skills
Define the properties the allow individual firearms identification
Recognize the general patterns of striations of firearms
Knowledge:
Distinguish between the compound, comparison, stereoscopic, polarizing, and micro spectrophotometer
Skill:
Successfully use a compound microscope.
Why hair fibers and paint are class evidence
Hair can be used to back up circumstantial evidence
How fibers can be used as circumstantial evidence to link the victim, suspect, and crime scene.
Skill:
Successfully use a compound microscope
Distinguish and identify different types of fibers.
Understand polymerization
Carry out an experiment in thin-layer chromatography.
Knowledge:
That DNA is a long-chain polymer found in nucleated cells, which contain genetic information.
Chapter
14
pp. 406431
Chapter
15
pp. 432465
Chapter 7
pp. 169186
Chapter 8
pp. 194231
Chapter
13
Evidence
ACOS: 4, 5
Week 13
Physical
Evidence
ACOS 10
Week 14
Physical
Evidence
ACOS 10
Week 15
Physical
Evidence
ACOS: 10
Week 16
Physical
Evidence
ACOS 10
That DNA can be used to identify or clear potential suspects in crimes.
How DNA is extracted and characterized.
How to apply the concepts of RFLP, PCR, and STR’s to characterize DNA
Skill:
Explain that DNA is a long molecule, tightly packed in the form of a chromosome with genetic material
wrapped around it.
Isolate and extract DNA from cells.
Describe the function and purpose of a restriction enzyme.
Knowledge:
The difference between physical and chemical properties.
How glass can be used as evidence
How individual evidence differs from class evidence.
The nature of glass.
Reflection, refraction, and refractive index.
Skill:
Make density measurements on very small particles.
Use logic to reconstruct events.
Knowledge:
Why soils are class evidence.
When soils can be used as circumstantial evidence.
Skill:
Identify soil’s common constituents.
Relate soil type to the environment.
Knowledge
Three Factors That Determine a Fire
How to Collect and Preserve Arson and
Explosive Evidence
Distinguishing Between Types of Explosive
Knowledge:
That an expert analyst can individualize handwriting to a particular person.
What types of evidence are submitted to the document analyst.
Three types of forgery
Skill:
Detect deliberately disguised handwriting
Detect erasures and develop impression writing.
Design and conduct scientific investigations.
pp. 361399
Chapter 4
pp. 89-109
Chapter 4
pp. 111117
Chapter
11
pp. 296327
Chapter
16
pp. 466488
Methods of Forgery
Ink Comparison Using Paper Chromatography
Week 18
Review Final Examination