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Death Investigation Lesson: Slides + Notes + Activity + Review
Death Investigation Lesson: Slides + Notes + Activity + Review
Death Investigation Lesson: Slides + Notes + Activity + Review
Death Investigation Lesson: Slides + Notes + Activity + Review
Death Investigation Lesson: Slides + Notes + Activity + Review
Death Investigation Lesson: Slides + Notes + Activity + Review
Death Investigation Lesson: Slides + Notes + Activity + Review
Death Investigation Lesson: Slides + Notes + Activity + Review
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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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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!

***Stay Curious!***

Report this resource to TPT
Reported resources will be reviewed by our team. Report this resource to let us know if this resource violates TPT's content guidelines.

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Elizabeth U.
299 reviews • Oklahoma
Grades taught: 11th, 12th
Rated 5 out of 5
January 22, 2025
Excellent resource. Very thorough, and saved me a great deal of time.
Serena C.
79 reviews
Grades taught: 12th
Rated 5 out of 5
January 14, 2025
This was a fun resource to use with my students! They enjoyed the notes and activities.
Jenna H.
44 reviews
Grades taught: 6th, 7th, 8th
Rated 5 out of 5
May 21, 2024
Really awesome resource! It was very helpful for my end of year unit!
Devon T.
160 reviews
Grades taught: 8th
Rated 5 out of 5
April 10, 2024
All products from Science of Curiosity have helped me enhance my forensic class curriculum. This was no exception. It was also great to modify for my multi-language learner. Thank you!
Amy B.
109 reviews
Grades taught: 10th, 11th, 12th
Student populations: Emerging bilinguals
Rated 5 out of 5
April 3, 2024
I LOVE this resource! I use it each year without fail. The biggest thing I am thankful for is the ability to use it easily in the classroom as a normal task card activity. If we need to transfer to distance learning, I love that I am able to still use this resource very easily.
Josephine T.
357 reviews
Grades taught: 12th
Rated 5 out of 5
May 17, 2022
I loved using this style of notes where the slides are interactive. I definitely recommend and will be purchasing more materials from them next year.
Lindsey E.
54 reviews
Grades taught: 10th, 11th, 12th
Rated 5 out of 5
May 11, 2022
Thank you for this product! My students enjoyed it.
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Develop and use a model to illustrate the hierarchical organization of interacting systems that provide specific functions within multicellular organisms. Emphasis is on functions at the organism system level such as nutrient uptake, water delivery, and organism movement in response to neural stimuli. An example of an interacting system could be an artery depending on the proper function of elastic tissue and smooth muscle to regulate and deliver the proper amount of blood within the circulatory system. Assessment does not include interactions and functions at the molecular or chemical reaction level.
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