Hands-On! Forensics Tire Impression Activity
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A comprehensive unit to teach your students about Forensic Tire Impression Evidence. Perfect for distance learning, in class, or a hybrid situation. Students work through interactive Google Slides that teach them The difference between Tire Track evidence and Tire Tread Patterns.How Tire Tread imprPrice $7.60Original Price $9.50Save $1.90
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These tire track evidence activities give students a chance to get hands-on experience with this fun forensic evidence. Tire Track evidence is sometimes hard to produce for a classroom setting - cars are big, mud is muddy, rain washes tread patterns away. These two activities bring tracks and tread patterns to your forensics classroom in an easy - low mess way!
Activity 1: Students use toy cars to paint tire tracks on paper. They practice finding and measuring wheel base, track width, and turning diameter with the tracks.
Materials needed:
- Three colors of paint
- Some way to dispense the paint to student pairs (a dab of each color on a paper plate works!)
- At least one paint brush per pair
- Scrap paper (at least four sheets per student pair)
- One small toy car per pair
- Paper towels or wipes
- rulers
Resource includes:
- Step by step student instructions for how to do the activity
- Google Slide set with examples to show students
- Question sheet
- Key
- Teaching Guide
Activity 2: Instructions show you how to set up ‘unknown’ tire tread rubbings that students match to real tires in the school parking lot.
Materials needed:
- scrap paper
- dark colored crayon
Resource includes:
- Student sheet to record answers
- Teaching Guide
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