AL Alignment: Forensic Science 1 & 2

eDynamic Learning Course Title: Forensic Science 1 & 2 State: AL State Course Title: State Course Code: Forensic Science and Crime Scene Investigation State Standards: Law, Public Safety, Corrections, and Security Date of Standards: 2020 Percentage of Course Aligned: 100%

Standards

Course Title. (a or b), if applicable, e.g. Game Design 1a

Unit Name(s)

Lesson(s) Numbers

How Standard is Taught

How Standard is Assessed

Comments

Standard Rating (Fully Met / Partially Met / Not Met)

Introduction to Forensic Science 1. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to describe the role of forensic science and evidence collection from historical Forensic Science 1 cases in the criminal justice system.

Unit 1: Introduction to Forensic Science

Lesson 3

Students explore the history of forensics

2. Apprise the different types of forensic science laboratories and professional organizations.

Forensic Science 2

Unit 4: Paint, Soil and Trace Evidence

Lessons 1-5

Discuss the process followed from collecting evidence to recording and Critical Thinking 1-5, Lab, Activity testing to solve a case.

3. Apply concepts of the scientific method to forensic science and to crime scene investigations.

Forensic Science 1

Unit 5: Firearms and Tool Marks

Lesson 3

Students learn how concepts of Physics and the scientific method shape forensic evidence

Critical Thinking 2

4. Classify physical evidence based on how it is produced.

Forensic Science 1

Unit 2: The Crime Scene Lesson 5

Students demonstrate how to collect and preserve evidence

Lab

5. Plan and carry out an investigation to determine the value of physical and trace evidence.

Forensic Science 2

Unit 1: Drug Evidence

Lesson 3

Describe the steps taken to safely and accurately collect evidence, such as using gloves, plastic bags for evidence.

Critical Thinking 1-5, Lab

Fully Met

6. Use models for the evaluation of handwriting and document evidence.

Forensic Science 1

Unit 2: The Crime Scene Lesson 5

Students learn the importance of forensic documents

Activity

Fully Met

7. Construct explanations from collections of evidence, using various pathological and anthropological techniques.

Forensic Science 1

Unit 6: Human Remains Lesson 3

Students learn how skeletal remains contribute to forensics

Critical Thinking 4

Fully Met

Activity

Fully Met

Critical Thinking 2

Fully Met

Standard is also met consistently throughout the course as it is integrated into course pedagogy.

Fully Met

Fully Met

Physical Evidence

8. Develop and use mathematical models to estimate height from Forensic Science 2 bone length.

Unit 6: Forensic Anthropology

Discuss how skeletal remains can Unit 6: Lesson 1; determine a person's identity and Unit 7: Lesson 1 reconstruct a crime.

9. Distinguish between admissible and inadmissible scientific and Forensic Science 1 technical evidence supplied by expert witnesses in criminal cases.

Unit 4: Physical Evidence, Hair, Blood and Fingerprints

Lesson 3

Students examine presumptive and Critical Thinking 5 confirmatory evidence

This standard is covered throughout Fully Met the course.

This standard is covered several places in the course.

Fully Met

Crime Scene Procedures, Techniques, and Analysis 10. Explain the differences between processing and analyzing evidence.

Unit 2: The Crime Scene Lesson 5

Students demonstrate how to collect and preserve evidence

11. Analyze and interpret data from different types of crime scene evidence to determine which forensic crime lab unit would have Forensic Science 2 responsibility. Example: soil, blood spatter, shoe print, hair, computer, glass, pills, fibers

Unit 6: Forensic Anthropology

Lesson 3

Define the term forensic "odontology" as dentistry and how identification of dental remains can Review 2 help solve cases involving fire and explosions.

Fully Met

12. Construct an explanation of how scientific forensic techniques used in collecting and submitting evidence for admissibility in court have evolved over time.

Forensic Science 1

Unit 1: Introduction to Forensic Science

Lesson 3

Students explore the history and evolution of forensics

Fully Met

13. Plan and carry out investigations using the scientific protocols for analyzing a crime scene. Example: Set perimeter, search, isolate, collect evidence, photograph, sketch, and record.

Forensic Science 2

Unit 6: Forensic Anthropology

Lessons 2-5

Describe the step by step investigation procedure that a forensic anthropologist followed to Critical Thinking 1-5, Activity identify skeletal remains at a crime scene.

Standard is also met consistently throughout the course as it is integrated into course pedagogy.

14. Construct an argument from evidence explaining the relevance Forensic Science 1 of possible evidence at a site of an investigation.

Unit 1: Introduction to Forensic Science

Lesson 4

Students explore basic concepts of investigation.

This standard is covered throughout Fully Met the course.

15. Develop models to analyze and communicate information obtained from the crime scene. Example: Properly document and sketch a crime scene.

Forensic Science 2

Unit 3: Forgeries and Lessons 2-6 Document Examination

Describe how document examiners compare handwriting for Review 1-5, Critical Thinking 1-5, alterations, forgeries and Lab, Activity, Discussion 2 counterfeiting.

Fully Met

16. Plan and carry out an investigation to use antigens and antibodies to determine blood type and to identify crime suspect(s) based on the results.

Forensic Science 1

Unit 4: Physical Evidence, Hair, Blood and Fingerprints

Lesson 3

Students analyze the role of blood splatter

Activity

Fully Met

17. Gather and share information about forensic identification of body fluids.

Forensic Science 2

Unit 2: Forensic Toxicology

Lesson 3

Working with blood evidence

Critical Thinking 2

Fully Met

18. Summarize important considerations in forensic investigation of sexual assault.

Forensic Science 2

Unit 8: Computers and the Future of Forensic Lessons 3-6 Science

Discuss the use of DNA as evidence Critical Thinking 5, Activity, in solving a crime, define the term Discussion 1 'phenotyping'

Fully Met

19. Analyze and interpret DNA evidence to match a suspect to biological samples, identifying conditions and/or situations where Forensic Science 2 errors commonly occur, and cite reasons for possible errors.

Unit 8: Computers and the Future of Forensic Lessons 3-6 Science

Discuss the use of DNA as evidence Critical Thinking 5, Activity, in solving a crime, define the term Discussion 1 'phenotyping'

Fully Met

20. Collect and preserve biological evidence for DNA analysis.

Unit 8: Computers and the Future of Forensic Lessons 3-6 Science

Discuss the use of DNA as evidence Critical Thinking 5, Activity, in solving a crime, define the term Discussion 1 'phenotyping'

Fully Met

Unit 2: Forensic Toxicology

Working with blood evidence

Fully Met

Forensic Science 1

Lab

This standard is covered throughout Fully Met the course.

Critical Thinking 2

Critical Thinking 4

Fully Met

Blood and Physiological Fluid Evidence

Forensic Science 2

21. Differentiate among blood-borne pathogens and describe their Forensic Science 2 effects on the human body.

Lesson 3

Critical Thinking 2

Physical Pattern Evidence and Technological Examinations

22. Analyze distinctive features of toolmark striations and impressions.

Forensic Science 2:

Unit 4: Paint, Soil and Trace Evidence

Lessons 1-5

Discusses the use of trace evidence by forensic scientists to solve Activity criminal investigations.

Fully Met

23. Analyze distinctive features of tire, footwear, and other impression evidence.

Forensic Science 1

Unit 3: Physical Evidence

Lesson 4

Students explore various aspects of Critical Thinking 4 analyzing impressions

Fully Met

24. Plan and carry out an experiment using the process of chromatography to analyze and identify ink marks.

Forensic Science 2

Unit 3: Forgeries and Lessons 2-6 Document Examination

Describe how document examiners compare handwriting for Review 1-5, Critical Thinking 1-5, alterations, forgeries and Lab, Activity, Discussion 2 counterfeiting.

Fully Met

25. Perform physical and chemical analyses of evidence obtained from a crime scene, victim, and suspect, using spectrophotometers and other appropriate equipment to answer pertinent questions in the investigation. Examples: examine Forensic Science 2 broken glass to determine the direction, size, and velocity of the object which struck it; determine whether soil from a victim’s shoe matches soil at the scene

Unit 2: Forensic Toxicology

Lesson 5

Explain how the use of spectrophotometry and chromatography is used to test for Activity, Discussion 2 drugs and which can determine the presence of poison.

Fully Met

26. Develop fingerprints and classify characteristics for identification by using distinguishing features.

Forensic Science 1

Unit 4: Physical Evidence, Hair, Blood and Fingerprints

Lesson 4

Students identify key elements of unique fingerprints

Activity

Fully Met

27. Collect and analyze latent prints using proper forensic tools and techniques. Examples: black powder, iodine, cyanoacrylate adhesive

Forensic Science 1

Unit 4: Physical Evidence, Hair, Blood and Fingerprints

Lesson 5

Students explore methods of latent Activity fingerprint development

Fully Met

28. Retrieve fingerprints and classify characteristics for identification by using distinguishing features. Examples: core, delta, bifurcation, bridge

Forensic Science 2

Unit 8: Computers and the Future of Forensic Lesson 2 Science

Describe how the IAFIS (Integrate Automated Fingerprint Identification System) works by using over 47 millions people Review 4, Activity included in a fingerprint database for forensic scientists to refer to and use in analyzing a crime scene.

29. Analyze and compare examples of firearm evidence.

Forensic Science 1

Unit 5: Firearms and Tool Marks

Lesson 2

Students explore characteristics of evidence involving firearms.

Activity

Fully Met

30. Construct an explanation based on the path of a moving projectile to indicate how the trajectory of an object can determine the position of the person releasing the object.

Forensic Science 1

Unit 5: Firearms and Tool Marks

Lesson 2

Students explore characteristics of evidence involving firearms.

Activity

Fully Met

31. Differentiate among the five distinct categories or schedules of drugs, including chemical composition and effects on the human Forensic Science 2 body.

Unit 1: Drug Evidence; Unit 2: Forensic Toxicology

Define and describe types and categories of drugs, narcotics, depressants, stimulants, Unit 1: Review 1, Critical Thinking Unit 1: Lesson 2; hallucinogens, and club drugs. Unit 4, Lab, Activity 1, Discussion 1: Unit Unit 2: Lesson 4 2: Define and describe types of 2: Review 3, 5 poisons; arsenic, cyanide, strychnine, carbon monoxide aconite, ricin.

32. Critique methods for laboratory analysis of controlled substance and design a solution to determine toxicity of a drug in a human based on body mass.

Forensic Science 2: More Secrets of the Dead

Unit 2: Forensic Toxicology

33. Ask questions to develop a time-of-death estimation in an actual or simulated situation, using signs of rigor mortis and stages of decomposition.

Forensic Science 1

Unit 6: Human Remains Lesson 2

*Unit 7 - Lab "The Real CSI" also includes a question concerning fingerprint identification.*

Fully Met

Forensic Toxicology, Drugs, and Drug Analysis

34. Compare the effects of various levels of alcohol in the human body.

Forensic Science 2

Unit 1: Drug Evidence; Unit 2: Forensic Toxicology

Lesson 5

Fully Met

Explain how a forensic scientist tests for poison during an autopsy Critical Thinking 2, 4, 5, Activity, such as taking samples of organs Discussion 2 and tissues, blood, gastric contents, hair and bone samples.

Fully Met

Students explore rigor mortis

Fully Met

Activity

Define and describe types and categories of drugs, narcotics, depressants, stimulants, Unit 1: Review 1, Critical Thinking Unit 1: Lesson 2; hallucinogens, and club drugs. Unit 4, Lab, Activity 1, Discussion 1: Unit Unit 2: Lesson 4 2: Define and describe types of 2: Review 3, 5 poisons; arsenic, cyanide, strychnine, carbon monoxide aconite, ricin.

Fully Met

Arson and Explosives Investigations 35. Compare types of combustion reactions and give examples.

Forensic Science 1

Unit 8: Arson and Explosion Evidence

Lesson 5

IMS testing for explosions, types of Lab combustion reactions

Fully Met

36. Analyze burn patterns in the investigation of fire scenes.

Forensic Science 1

Unit 8: Arson of Explosion Evidence

Lesson 3

Analyzing arson evidence

Critical Thinking 1, 2

Fully Met

37. Gather, evaluate, and share information on methods for recovery and analysis of residues of ignitable liquids.

Forensic Science 1

Unit 8: Arson and Explosion Evidence

Lesson 3

Ignitable liquids analysis

Critical Thinking 1, 2

Fully Met

38. Classify explosives and explosions based on their characteristics.

Forensic Science 1

Unit 8: Arson and Explosion Evidence

Lesson 4

Classifying explosives

Activity

Fully Met

39. Assess cybersecurity tools, techniques, and technologies.

Forensic Science 2

Unit 7: Digital Evidence Lessons 2-5

Cybersecurity methods and uses

Lab

Fully Met

40. Analyze basic computer evidence recovery techniques.

Forensic Science 2

Unit 7: Digital Evidence Lesson 2

Procedures for collecting data evidence from computers, databases, the cloud and more

Critical Thinking 2, 3, 4, 5; Review 2

Fully Met

41. Demonstrate strategies for starting and managing a network intrusion investigation.

Forensic Science 2

Unit 7: Digital Evidence Activity

Create presentation detailing basics of conducting a digital forensic Activity investigation

Fully Met

42. Assess methods of mobile device seizure and evidence recovery.

Forensic Science 2

Unit 7: Digital Evidence Lesson 3

Details of assuring security in mobile seizures, such as the use of Faraday bags, and processes of recovery such as taking a forensic image of the hard drive

Review 5; Critical Thinking 4, 5

Fully Met

43. Create incident reports and forensic laboratory analysis reports.

Forensic Science 2

Unit 4: Paint, Soil, and Trace Evidence

Activity

Student is to submit an accident incident/crash report using an online form and include examples of types of evidence they would include

Activity

Fully Met

44. Cite evidence and provide oral testimony in actual or simulated situations.

Forensic Science 2

Unit 8: Computers and the Future of Forensic Science

Activity

Student is to create a convincing proposal in favor of obtaining a new Activity form of technology for their lab, citing their research results

Fully Met

Cybersecurity

Communication