Description
Death Investigation Notes, Activity and Review resource teaches your students about Time Since Death, Manner and Cause of Death, and the job of the Medical Examiner. The resource can be 100% digital, and no prep.
Thirty interactive Google Slides teach students
- The duties of a Medical Examiner
- Methods for identifying a body
- Five ways to tell time since death: Livor Mortis, Rigor Mortis, Algor Mortis (body temp), Putrefaction, and stomach contents
- Clues that point to manner of death: suffocation, strangulation, drowning, clues from types of injuries, finding drugs / poison
Interactive elements in the Google Slides include drag and drop, fill in the blank, short answer, sort, links to two video clips, links to eleven images. Key included!
Guided Notes: give students a place to write down what they learn. Notes are made in a different format than the slides, encouraging students to think about what they are learning, rather than simply copy notes. Key included!
Time Sense Death Timeline: Students complete a timeline for all the signs that can show time since death. Provided in two formats: Drag and Drop Digital, and Printable Cut and Paste. Key included!
Google Form Review: Fifteen multiple choice questions that are self grading!
The whole resource is student independent - no direct instruction needed. Everything your students need to complete the Google Slides, Timeline activity and Google Form review is provided for them in the resource.
Detailed Teaching Guide for tips on how to use the resource, how to share with students, and how to grade!
The resource is editable!
Need more Forensics Death Investigation resources?
- Forensics Death Investigation: Notes, Activity and Review - Interactive Google Slides teaches your students about Time Since Death, Manner and Cause of Death, and the job of the Medical Examiner. Includes an activity and Google Form review questions. The resource can be 100% digital, and no prep.
- Estimate Time Since Death - NO PREP! Everything your students need to learn what happens to a body after death, and then use those skills to estimate when Zelda died. Was it accidental death, or murder??
- Secrets of the Body Farm Video Guide - a fun documentary that students always enjoy! The Body Farm, located in TN, is home to a few dozen donated bodies, where Forensic Scientists go to learn about human decomposition.
- Autopsy Report Activity! There are many ways to use this resource in your class to reinforce learning about autopsies, entomology, cause of death, and time since death. Digital and Print options!
- Forensics Stages of Decay: Learn the five stages of decomposition to determine the time since death (post mortem interval). A great addition to your Forensics Death Investigation unit! This is designed to be a student independent activity, no direct instruction is needed!
- Forensic Autopsy Medical Examiner Terms: Notes + Activity: Teach the terms used by Forensic Pathologists / Medical Examiners when they perform an Autopsy! Interactive Google Slides, Printable Notes and Hands on Activity!
- BUGS! Forensic Entomology Notes + Activity: Students learn how to measure maggots to determine the time since death! Digital activity - no prep!
- BONES! Forensic Anthropology Death Investigation: Notes + Activity: Teach your students how to be Forensic Anthropologists! Learn to read bones and determine gender, height and age. Then solve a Missing Person Case!
- Death Investigation Review Game! A super fun whole-class review game that allows teams to compete against each other with some wacky twists and turns!
- Death Investigation Assessment Forensic Science: Thirty multiple choice questions on a self grading Google Form, covering all topics in this Unit!
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More Forensic Science resources from Science of Curiosity!
- Evidence Collection Online Interactive - Learn the basics by exploring a crime scene!
- Forensic Photography: Students learn and practice the art of Forensic Photography
- Arson Investigation - NO PREP
- Blood Spatter Lab - Student centered, learn by doing
- Forensic Files Video List - find the perfect Forensic Files video for every topic
- Forensic File Video Guide - FREE
- True Crime Book Project: Increase literacy in your Forensic Science Class!
- Forensic Science Careers Project - NO PREP students choose a career and follow the 100 pt rubric to create a digital poster
***Stay Curious!***
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Description
Death Investigation Notes, Activity and Review resource teaches your students about Time Since Death, Manner and Cause of Death, and the job of the Medical Examiner. The resource can be 100% digital, and no prep.
Thirty interactive Google Slides teach students
- The duties of a Medical Examiner
- Methods for identifying a body
- Five ways to tell time since death: Livor Mortis, Rigor Mortis, Algor Mortis (body temp), Putrefaction, and stomach contents
- Clues that point to manner of death: suffocation, strangulation, drowning, clues from types of injuries, finding drugs / poison
Interactive elements in the Google Slides include drag and drop, fill in the blank, short answer, sort, links to two video clips, links to eleven images. Key included!
Guided Notes: give students a place to write down what they learn. Notes are made in a different format than the slides, encouraging students to think about what they are learning, rather than simply copy notes. Key included!
Time Sense Death Timeline: Students complete a timeline for all the signs that can show time since death. Provided in two formats: Drag and Drop Digital, and Printable Cut and Paste. Key included!
Google Form Review: Fifteen multiple choice questions that are self grading!
The whole resource is student independent - no direct instruction needed. Everything your students need to complete the Google Slides, Timeline activity and Google Form review is provided for them in the resource.
Detailed Teaching Guide for tips on how to use the resource, how to share with students, and how to grade!
The resource is editable!
Need more Forensics Death Investigation resources?
- Forensics Death Investigation: Notes, Activity and Review - Interactive Google Slides teaches your students about Time Since Death, Manner and Cause of Death, and the job of the Medical Examiner. Includes an activity and Google Form review questions. The resource can be 100% digital, and no prep.
- Estimate Time Since Death - NO PREP! Everything your students need to learn what happens to a body after death, and then use those skills to estimate when Zelda died. Was it accidental death, or murder??
- Secrets of the Body Farm Video Guide - a fun documentary that students always enjoy! The Body Farm, located in TN, is home to a few dozen donated bodies, where Forensic Scientists go to learn about human decomposition.
- Autopsy Report Activity! There are many ways to use this resource in your class to reinforce learning about autopsies, entomology, cause of death, and time since death. Digital and Print options!
- Forensics Stages of Decay: Learn the five stages of decomposition to determine the time since death (post mortem interval). A great addition to your Forensics Death Investigation unit! This is designed to be a student independent activity, no direct instruction is needed!
- Forensic Autopsy Medical Examiner Terms: Notes + Activity: Teach the terms used by Forensic Pathologists / Medical Examiners when they perform an Autopsy! Interactive Google Slides, Printable Notes and Hands on Activity!
- BUGS! Forensic Entomology Notes + Activity: Students learn how to measure maggots to determine the time since death! Digital activity - no prep!
- BONES! Forensic Anthropology Death Investigation: Notes + Activity: Teach your students how to be Forensic Anthropologists! Learn to read bones and determine gender, height and age. Then solve a Missing Person Case!
- Death Investigation Review Game! A super fun whole-class review game that allows teams to compete against each other with some wacky twists and turns!
- Death Investigation Assessment Forensic Science: Thirty multiple choice questions on a self grading Google Form, covering all topics in this Unit!
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More Forensic Science resources from Science of Curiosity!
- Evidence Collection Online Interactive - Learn the basics by exploring a crime scene!
- Forensic Photography: Students learn and practice the art of Forensic Photography
- Arson Investigation - NO PREP
- Blood Spatter Lab - Student centered, learn by doing
- Forensic Files Video List - find the perfect Forensic Files video for every topic
- Forensic File Video Guide - FREE
- True Crime Book Project: Increase literacy in your Forensic Science Class!
- Forensic Science Careers Project - NO PREP students choose a career and follow the 100 pt rubric to create a digital poster
***Stay Curious!***







