Huntsville City Schools
Instructional Pacing Guide 2015-2016
Course: Forensic Science
Grade
11-12
1st Nine Weeks
Standard
QC I.A.a.f
Safely use laboratory
equipment and techniques
when conducting scientific
investigations
ALCOS 1.0 Describe
responsibilities of various
personnel involved in crime
scene investigations.
Examples: police, detectives,
laboratory specialists,
medical examiners
1
“I Can” Statements
(unwrapped by school teams)
1. Identify the location and function of
safety equipment in the lab
2. Apply laboratory safety rules.
3. Identify and properly use laboratory
equipment.
1. Define forensic science and list the
major disciplines it encompasses
2. Recognize the major contributors to
the development of forensic
science.
3. Account for the rapid growth of
forensic laboratories in the last forty
years.
4. Describe the services of a typical
comprehensive crime lab in the
criminal justice system.
5. List the specialized forensic services
aside from the crime lab that are
generally available to law
enforcement.
Resources
(by school teams)
Lab safety video Alabama
Science In Motion and Flinn
Scientific.
ASIM –A1Safety
Introduction to lab
equipment and techniques –
ASIM – B6Tools
Pearson Textbook: Forensic
Science An Introduction
Richard Saferstein and
Charles Fanning - Chapter
One
My Crime Kit –Instructor
Supplement on Pearson
Guest speakers :
Forensic Scientist
Medical Examiner
Coroner
Police Officer
EMT
Firemen
Pacing
Recommendation
/ Date(s) Taught
4 days
9 days
Ask SROs for suggestions on
people to contact.
Notes from training
workshops with Southern
Institute of Forensic Science
(SIFS)
Video: Bone Collector with
Denzel Washington
ALCOS 1.1 Explaining how to 1. Define physical evidence
search, sketch, and record
2. Discuss the responsibilities of the
data from a crime scene.
first police officer on scene.
3. Explain the steps to be taken to
ALCOS 2.0 Explain ways to
thoroughly record the crime scene.
collect and preserve evidence 4. Describe proper procedures for
from crime scene.
conducting a search of crime scene
for physical evidence.
ALCOS 2.1 Distinguish
5. Define and understand the concept
between physical and witness
of chain of custody.
evidence
6. Understand the contributions of the
Forensic Pathologist and
ALCOS 3.0 Distinguish
Anthropologist can make to a
between class and individual
homicide investigation.
characteristics of evidence
7. Know the difference between expert
and lay witnesses
ALCOS 6.0 Describe the
8. Know the concepts of livor, algor,
decomposition process.
and rigor mortis.
9. List the common types if physical
ALCOS 6.1 Using rigor mortis
evidence encountered at the crime
to determine corpse position
scene.
10. Explain the difference between the
identification and comparison of
physical evidence.
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National Forensic Science
Technology Center at
www.nfstc.org
Pearson Textbook: Forensic
Science An Introduction
Richard Saferstein and
Charles Fanning - Chapter
Two and Three
My Crime Kit –Instructor
Supplement on Pearson
Guest speakers and notes
from training workshops with
Southern Institute of
Forensic Science
Logic activity
(deductive/inductive)
e.g. B1bObsc – ASIM
The Forensic Sketch Artist
www. http://alex.state.al.us/
12 days
ALCOS 6.2 Identifying
11. Define and contrast individual and
decomposition by-products to
class characteristics of physical
determine cause of death
evidence.
12. Appreciate the value of class
evidence as it relates to a criminal
investigation.
13. List and explain the function of
national data bases available to
forensic scientists.
Sketch of crime scene
activities – Flinn Mr.
Mathematics Mysterious
Murder AP7060 ($69.95/30
students)
Anthropometry -ASIM –
B3MeaHum
Evidence collection lab
Don’t Ask, Don’t Receive
Crime Activities – from
Southern Institute of
Forensic Science
National Forensic Science
Technology Center at
www.nfstc.org
ALCOS 2.0 Students will
explain ways to collect and
preserve evidence from a
crime scene.
ALCOS 2.4 Identifying
origins of impressions,
including footwear and tire
treads
ALCOS 3.0 Distinguish
between class and individual
characteristics of firearms,
toolmarks, caliber,scatter
pattern.
3
1. Describe techniques for rifling a
barrel.
2. Recognize the class and individual
characteristics of bullets and
cartridge cases.
3. Understand the use of the
comparison microscope to compare
bullets and cartridge cases.
4. Explain the concept of NIBIN
database.
5. Explain the procedure for
determining how far from a target a
weapon was fired.
6. Identify the lab tests for
determining whether an individual
has fired a weapon.
Pearson Textbook: Forensic
Science An Introduction
Richard Saferstein and
Charles Fanning - Chapter
16
My Crime Kit –Instructor
Supplement on Pearson
Gait Recognition
www. http://alex.state.al.us/
Second Resource: Forensic
Science: An Introduction to
Scientific and Investigative
Technique by Stuart James
10 days
ALCOS 4.0 Students will
describe presumptive and
confirmatory tests.
ALCOS 9.0 Students will use
laws of physics to explain
forensic evidence.
7. Explain the forensic significance of
class and individual characteristics
to the comparison of tool marks,
footwear and tire impressions.
8. List some common field reagents
used to enhance bloody footprints.
and Jon J. Nordby – Chapter
20
Identification of prints to
shoes/tires lab – Flinn sells a
lab with shoe prints on paper
or use old shoes to make
your own.
Casting of shoe and tire
tracks – use plaster of Paris
Flinn Gunshot Residue
Demonstration FB1645
($38.65/30 students)
National Forensic Science
Technology Center at
www.nfstc.org
ALCOS 2.0 Students will
explain ways to collect and
preserve evidence from a
crime scene.
1. Define Questioned Documents.
2. Know what common individual
characteristics are associated with
handwriting.
3. List some important guidelines for
ALCOS 10.0 Describe
collecting know writings for
techniques used to determine
comparison to a questioned
the validity of documents.
document.
Fiber and handwriting
4. Recognize some of the class and
analyses, ink chromatography
individual characteristics of printers
and photocopiers.
5. List some of the techniques
document examiners use to
uncover alterations, erasures,
obliterations, and variations in pen
inks.
4
Science An Introduction
Richard Saferstein and
Charles Fanning - Chapter
17
My Crime Kit –Instructor
Supplement on Pearson
Second Resource: Forensic
Science: An Introduction to
Scientific and Investigative
Techique by Stuart James
and Jon J. Nordby – Chapter
21
Flinn-Detective Casebook
AP6865 (73.40/30 students)
Handwriting analysis, Ink
8 days
Chromatography, ABO
typing and Fingerprint
analysis.
Southern Institute of
Forensic Science Activities –
Handwriting- seven types
Lab with erasures/changes
Paper/Ink Chromatography
National Forensic Science
Technology Center at
www.nfstc.org
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Huntsville City Schools
Instructional Pacing Guide 2015-2016
Course: Forensic Science
Grade
11-12
2nd Nine Weeks
Standard
“I Can” Statements
(unwrapped by school teams)
ALCOS 2.0 Explain ways to
1. Know the common ridge
collect and preserve evidence
characteristics of fingerprint.
from crime scene.
2. List the three major fingerprint
patterns and their respective
ALCOS 2.2 Comparing the
subclasses.
three main pattern types that 3. Distinguish patent, plastic and
combine to form an
latent fingerprints.
individual's unique fingerprint 4. Describe the concept of an
automated fingerprint identification
ALCOS 2.3 Explaining
system (AFIS).
different methods of latent
5. List the techniques for developing
fingerprint development
latent fingerprints on porous and
nonporous objects.
6. Describe the proper procedures for
preserving a developed latent
fingerprint.
Resources
(by school teams)
Pearson Textbook: Forensic
Science An Introduction
Richard Saferstein and
Charles Fanning - Chapter
Fifteen
My Crime Kit –Instructor
Supplement on Pearson
Second Resource: Forensic
Science: An Introduction to
Scientific and Investigative
Technique by Stuart James
and Jon J. Nordby – Chapter
17
Guest speakers
Fingerprint Unit
Notes from training
workshops with Southern
Institute of Forensic Science
6
Pacing
Recommendation
/ Date(s) Taught
15 days
Labs from SIFS and ASIM
Ten-print fingerprints lab
Dust for fingerprints
ASIM- I16Fprint
Coding fingerprints
Minutiae Lab – students
ink finger/thumb and place
on balloon for magnification
and identify minutiae.
Flinn Labs – Fingerprints
FB1220 ($54.10/30
students)
Amino Acid (Ninhydrin)
Fingerprints AP6736
($33.15/30 students)
Fuming Fingerprints (Super
glue) AP7402 ($46.95/10
groups) Or buy super glue
and ziplock bags at dollar
store and do the same lab
for less with each student
getting to fume an item.
National Forensic Science
Technology Center at
www.nfstc.org
ALCOS 2.0 Students will
explain ways to collect and
preserve evidence from a
crime scene.
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14. Recognize and understand the
cuticle, cortex, and medulla areas of
hair.
15. List the three phases of hair growth.
Pearson Textbook: Forensic
Science An Introduction
Richard Saferstein and
Charles Fanning - Chapter
Eleven
15 days
ALCOS 2.5 Describing ways
to identify hair, fiber, and
blood evidence
16. Appreciate the distinction between
animal and human hairs.
17. List hair features that are useful for
microscopic comparison of human
hair.
18. Explain proper collection of forensic
hair evidence.
19. Describe and understand the role of
DNA typing in hair comparisons.
20. Understand the differences between
natural and manufactured fibers.
21. List the properties of fibers that are
most useful for forensic
comparisons.
22. Describe proper collection of fiber
evidence.
23. Recognize the major contributors to
the development of forensic
science.
My Crime Kit –Instructor
Supplement on Pearson
Second Resource: Forensic
Science: An Introduction to
Scientific and Investigative
Techique by Stuart James
and Jon J. Nordby – Chapter
20
Analysis of student’s hair
under microscope
Crime Scene with analysis of
hair and fibers from Top
Shelf Forensics Lab Book
Flinn – Crime Scene AP4677
($77.00/24 students) hair,
fiber and ABO analysis
Mini crime scenes – make
your own in Xerox boxes
with cheap Barbie-like does
from Dollar Store.
Notes from training
workshops with Southern
Institute of Forensic Science
National Forensic Science
Technology Center at
www.nfstc.org
8
ALCOS 2.0 Explain ways to
1. Compare and contrast psychological
collect and preserve evidence
and physical dependence
from a crime scene.
2. Name and classify the commonly
abused drugs
ALCOS 8.0 Describe general
3. Describe the laboratory tests
categories of drugs and
normally used to perform a routine
poisons and their effects on
drug identification analysis
humans.
4. Describe and explain the process of
chromatography
ALCOS 8.1 Explaining ways
5. Explain the difference between thinpoisons are detected at
layer chromatography and gas
autopsy
chromatography
6. Describe the utility of ultraviolet and
infrared spectroscopy for the
identification of organic compounds
7. Describe the concept and utility of
mass spectrometry for identification
analysis
8. Understand the proper collection
and preservation of drug evidence
Textbook: Forensic Science
An Introduction Richard
Saferstein and Charles
Fanning - Chapter 5
My Crime Kit –Instructor
Supplement on Pearson
Second Resource: Forensic
Science: An Introduction to
Scientific and Investigative
Techique by Stuart James
and Jon J. Nordby – Chapter
22
Flinn – Identification of
Unknown Substances II
FB1648 ($112.20/30
students) simulated drug
analysis.
Gas Chromatography
Spectroscopy
Gas Spectrometer at Work
Chromatography Lab
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14 days
Huntsville City Schools
Instructional Pacing Guide 2015-2016
Course: Forensic Science
Grade
11-12
3rd Nine Weeks
Standard
ALCOS 2.0 Students will
explain ways to collect and
preserve evidence from a
crime scene.
“I Can” Statements
(unwrapped by school teams)
1. List the A-B-O antigens and antibodies
found in the blood for each of the four
blood types: A, B, AB, and O
2. Understand and describe how whole
blood is typed
3. List and describe forensic tests used to
ALCOS 2.5 Describing ways
characterize a stain as blood
to identify hair, fiber and
4. Understand the concept of antigen–
blood evidence.
antibody interactions and how it is
applied to species identification and
drug identification
AlCOS 4.0 Describe
presumptive and confirmatory 5. Explain the differences between
monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies
tests.
6. Contrast chromosomes and genes
Examples: blood type
7. Learn how the Punnett square is used to
comparison, DNA testing
determine the genotypes and
phenotypes of offspring
8. List the laboratory tests necessary to
characterize seminal stains
9. Explain how suspect blood and semen
stains are to be properly preserved for
laboratory examination
10. Describe the proper collection of
physical evidence in a rape investigation
10
Resources
(by school teams)
Pacing
Recommendation
/ Date(s) Taught
Textbook: Forensic Science
An Introduction Richard
Saferstein and Charles
Fanning - Chapter 8
My Crime Kit – instructor
supplements from Pearson
Second Resource: Forensic
Science: An Introduction to
Scientific and Investigative
Techique by Stuart James
and Jon J. Nordby – Chapter
13
Flinn Scientific Labs
Bloodstains at Crime Scene
AP6502 ($45.95/30 students)
blood typing
12 days
Presumptive Blood Test FB1646
($19.90/30 student) KastleMeyer Test
Crime Scene AP4677
($77.00/24 students) ABO
typing, hair and fiber
analysis.
Detective Casebook AP6865
($73.40/30 students) ABO
typing, Ink Chromatography,
Fingerprints, Handwriting
analysis.
ASIM – I8aBlood – blood typing
I8cCroMa – cross matching
ALCOS 2.0 Students will
explain ways to collect and
preserve evidence from a
crime scene.
ALCOS 5.0 Describe the
importance of genetic
information to forensics.
ALCOS 5.1 Using the process
of gel electrophoresis to
identify patterns in DNA
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1. Name the parts of a nucleotide and
explain how nucleotides are linked
to DNA.
2. Understand the concept of base
pairing as it relates to the double
helix structure of DNA
3. Contrast DNA strands that code for
proteins with strands that contain
repeating sequences
4. Explain the technology of
polymerase chain reaction and how
it applies to forensic investigation
5. Contrast the newest DNA typing
techniques with previous techniques
6. Describe the differences between
nuclear and mitochondria DNA
Textbook: Forensic Science
An Introduction Richard
Saferstein and Charles
Fanning - Chapter 9
My Crime Kit – instructor
supplements from Pearson
Second Resource: Forensic
Science: An Introduction to
Scientific and Investigative
Technique by Stuart James
and Jon J. Nordby – Chapter
15
10 days
7. Understand the use of computerized
databases
8. List the procedures for proper
preservation of biological evidence
for lab analysis of DNA
ASIM – D4aFDNA DNA
fingerprinting
D4bMixUp – Mix Up at the
Hospital
D4cPatCa – Paternity Case
Flinn – DNA Forensics
FB1798 ($91.45/30
students)
DNA Paternity Test FB1799
($92.90/30 students)
DNA Fingerprinting I FB0307
($91.85/30 students)
Any Biology or Genetics text
available.
ALCOS 2.0 Students will
explain ways to collect and
preserve evidence from a
crime scene.
9. Define crime-scene reconstruction
10. Discuss the information that can be
gained from bloodstain pattern
analysis about the events involved
in a violent crime
11.
Explain how surface texture,
ALCOS 9. Use laws of physics to
directionally, and angle of impact
explain forensic evidence.
affect the shape of individual
bloodstains.
ALCOS 9.1 Analyzing blood
12. Calculate the angle of impact of a
splatter patterns in relation to
bloodstain using its dimensions.
speed, height, and direction
13. Describe the classifications of low-,
medium-, and high velocity impact
ALCOS 9.2 Tracking trajectories of
spatter and appreciate how these
collected evidence
classifications should be used.
14. Discuss the methods to determine
the area of convergence and area of
origin for impact spatter patterns.
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Textbook: Forensic Science
An Introduction Richard
Saferstein and Charles
Fanning - Chapter 10
My Crime Kit – instructor
supplements from Pearson
Second Resource: Forensic
Science: An Introduction to
Scientific and Investigative
Techique by Stuart James
and Jon J. Nordby –
Chapters 11 & 13
Blood Spatter Animation
12 days
ALCOS 2.0 Students will
explain ways to collect and
preserve evidence from a
crime scene.
ALCOS 2.4 Identifying origins of
impressions, including footprints,
tire treads and teeth marks
ALCOS 7.2 Using forensic
dentistry to establish identity
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15. Understand how various blood
pattern types are created and which
features of each pattern can be
used to aid in reconstructing events
at a crime scene.
16. Describe the methods for
documenting bloodstain patterns at
a crime scene.
1. Understand the use of dentition in
the identification of individuals.
2. Understand expert witness
testimony in dental identification
(expert versus fact witness)
3. Understand the difference between
antemortem and postmortem record
examination.
4. Understand bite mark analysis in
crime investigation.
5. Understand the correct collection
process for bite mark analysis
6. Understand dental malpractice
analysis
Flinn – Bloodstain Pattern
Analysis FB1643 ($34.95/30
students)
Textbook: Forensic Science
An Introduction to Scientific
and Investigative Technique
Stuart James and Jon J.
Nordby Chapter 6
Labs from SIFS
Students’ Teeth Impressions
Whose Teeth Are These
9 days
Huntsville City Schools
Instructional Pacing Guide 2015-2016
Course: Forensic Science
Grade
11-12
4th Nine Weeks
Standard
“I Can” Statements
(unwrapped by school teams)
ALCOS 1.0 Describe
1. Understand the contributions of the
responsibilities of various
Forensic Pathologist and
personnel involved in crime scene
Anthropologist can make to a
investigations.
homicide investigation.
Examples: police, detectives,
2. I can recognize the major bones of
laboratory specialists, medical
the human body.
examiners
3. I can understand how to compare
bones and skulls based on age, sex,
ALCOS 2.0 Students will
and race.
explain ways to collect and
4. I can determine victim
preserve evidence from a
characteristics based on skeletal
crime scene.
remains.
ALCOS 7.0 Identify the
importance of skeletal
remains in forensics.
ALCOS 7.1 Comparing bones
and skulls based on age, sex,
and race
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Resources
(by school teams)
Textbook: Forensic Science
An Introduction to Scientific
and Investigative Technique
Stuart James and Jon J.
Nordby Chapter 7
ASIM Labs
E1Stones - Bones and
Stones
I12dCompAnat3 –
Comparative Anatomy
I12bSkel -Whose Skeleton
is in Your Closet
I12cBone – Bone
Identification
Video: NOVA The Perfect
Corpse
Pacing
Recommendation
/ Date(s) Taught
20 days
ALCOS 1.0 Describe
1. Understand the importance of
responsibilities of various
determining time since death.
personnel involved in crime scene 2. Understanding the process of
investigations.
determining the elapsed time since
Examples: police, detectives,
death.
laboratory specialists, medical
3. Understand the life cycle of a blow
examiners
fly.
4. Understand the effects of
ALCOS 2.0 Students will
temperature, environment and
explain ways to collect and
species developmental data in
preserve evidence from a
determining time since death.
crime scene.
5. Understand successional
colonization of the dead body by
ALCOS 6.3 Using entomological
insects.
life cycle to determine time of
6. Understand the correct process of
death
collection of entomological evidence
Textbook: Forensic Science
An Introduction to Scientific
and Investigative Technique
Stuart James and Jon J.
Nordby Chapter 9
All standards have been met at
this time- the following is
optional during end of year
testing.
All standards have been met at this timethe following is optional during end of
year testing
All standards have been met
at this time- the following is
optional during end of year
testing
1. List and describe the hardware and
software components of a
computer.
2. Understand the difference between
read-only memory and randomaccess memory.
3. Describe how a hard disk drive is
partitioned.
4. Describe the proper procedure for
preserving computer evidence at a
crime scene
5. Understand the difference between
and location of visible and latent
Pearson Textbook: Forensic
Science An Introduction
Richard Saferstein and
Charles Fanning - Chapter
Eighteen
ALCOS 1.0 Describe
responsibilities of various
personnel involved in crime scene
investigations.
Examples: police, detectives,
laboratory specialists, medical
examiners
ALCOS 2.0 Students will
explain ways to collect and
preserve evidence from a
crime scene.
15
Flinn – Of Maggots and
Murder AP7028 ($61.75/30
students)
12 days
Forensic Entomology Lab
Simulation FB1192
($28.90/30 students)
Second Resource: Forensic
Science: An Introduction to
Scientific and Investigative
Techique by Stuart James
and Jon J. Nordby – Chapter
26
All standards have
been met at this timethe following is
optional during end of
year testing
13 days
ALCOS 10.0 Describe techniques
used to determine the validity of
documents.
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data
6. List the areas of the computer that
will be examined to retrieve forensic
data
7. Know how to search for information
on the Internet
8. Describe informational retrieval
sources, such as mailing lists and
newsgroups, available through the
internet
9. Learn how to retrieve information
about forensic science on the
internet
10. Relate various areas found on the
computer where a user’s internet
activities can be investigated
11. Describe how e-mails, chat, and
instant messages on the internet
can be traced and recovered
12. List and describe three locations
where investigators may pinpoint
the origin of a hacker