What others say
"I have used this virtual activity in 2 different semesters now and after some initial hand-holding, students really enjoy dragging the insects around and trying to solve the cases. "
Katie O.
"I love this!! This is a great learning material for students who love to learn about forensic entomology. I recommend this"
Norman F.
Description
Teach your students how to be Forensic Entomologists! Learn to measure fly maggots and figure out the post-mortem interval (time since death).
Resource includes:
- Learn Forensic Entomology Google Slides: 12 interactive slides that teach everything students need to know. No direct instruction needed, giving you freedom to help students that need you. Slides are interactive and engaging!
- Key for Learn Entomology Google Slides: all of the interactive elements on these slides are completed/filled in. You can use this slide set if you prefer to teach via direct instruction
- Student Notes Sheet: completed as students go though the Learn Entomology slides
- Student Notes Key: comprehensive Key of the notes filled out
- Forensic Entomology Activity: Seventeen interactive Google Slides challenge students with five cases to solve. They have a jar of maggots which they drag to a digital ruler and measure. Using the provided fly growth chart, case information, and temperature data, they figure out the post mortem interval for each case.
- Review Questions: Ten multiple choice review questions on a self grading Google Form. Use as a review or an assessment!
Students will learn:
- The life cycle of a fly
- Important forensic details about four species of flies
- How temperature impacts the life cycle of a fly
- How to measure maggots / pupa to figure out the age of a maggot
- How to use a fly growth chart to determine the PMI
Interactive Google Slides build up student’s skills, asking them to:
- Drag and drop elements
- Circle the right answer
- Fill in the blank
- Complete short answer questions
This resource is appropriate for even more sensitive students - there are no actual photos of decaying corpses.
NO PREP! Full answer keys are provided for the learning slides and the activity slides.
A teacher guide is included with tips for how to best use the resource, sharing the slides, and ideas to make grading easier!
Need more Forensics Death Investigation resources?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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!
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- 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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Forensics Entomology Lesson: Slides, Notes, Activity, Review Questions
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What others say
"I have used this virtual activity in 2 different semesters now and after some initial hand-holding, students really enjoy dragging the insects around and trying to solve the cases. "
Katie O.
"I love this!! This is a great learning material for students who love to learn about forensic entomology. I recommend this"
Norman F.
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Description
Teach your students how to be Forensic Entomologists! Learn to measure fly maggots and figure out the post-mortem interval (time since death).
Resource includes:
- Learn Forensic Entomology Google Slides: 12 interactive slides that teach everything students need to know. No direct instruction needed, giving you freedom to help students that need you. Slides are interactive and engaging!
- Key for Learn Entomology Google Slides: all of the interactive elements on these slides are completed/filled in. You can use this slide set if you prefer to teach via direct instruction
- Student Notes Sheet: completed as students go though the Learn Entomology slides
- Student Notes Key: comprehensive Key of the notes filled out
- Forensic Entomology Activity: Seventeen interactive Google Slides challenge students with five cases to solve. They have a jar of maggots which they drag to a digital ruler and measure. Using the provided fly growth chart, case information, and temperature data, they figure out the post mortem interval for each case.
- Review Questions: Ten multiple choice review questions on a self grading Google Form. Use as a review or an assessment!
Students will learn:
- The life cycle of a fly
- Important forensic details about four species of flies
- How temperature impacts the life cycle of a fly
- How to measure maggots / pupa to figure out the age of a maggot
- How to use a fly growth chart to determine the PMI
Interactive Google Slides build up student’s skills, asking them to:
- Drag and drop elements
- Circle the right answer
- Fill in the blank
- Complete short answer questions
This resource is appropriate for even more sensitive students - there are no actual photos of decaying corpses.
NO PREP! Full answer keys are provided for the learning slides and the activity slides.
A teacher guide is included with tips for how to best use the resource, sharing the slides, and ideas to make grading easier!
Need more Forensics Death Investigation resources?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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!
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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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I love Science of Curiosity for forensics! I teach this elective with no defined curriculum and Science of Curiosity resources have bailed me out more than once. They are detailed and both student and teacher friendly. These are great for absent students as well. Excellent amount of detail and students get a lot out of it. Lots of work goes into these resources and it shows.
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Great entomology resource
I have used this virtual activity in 2 different semesters now and after some initial hand-holding, students really enjoy dragging the insects around and trying to solve the cases.
I love this!! This is a great learning material for students who love to learn about forensic entomology. I recommend this
My students and I love this resource! Thank you so much for sharing!
Very great and useful resource, especially at the end of the year!
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.
My students loved this activity. I loved the fact that I didn't have to actually deal with bugs!
I was looking for an activity to replace my current one that I use for entomology since I will have a large class this school year. This will do it! Great resource!
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NGSSHS-LS1-2
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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