The Innocence Project Evidence Assignment

Description

By looking at the over 400 overturned wrongful convictions that the Innocence Project has worked on, students can analyze how a misuse of evidence can be detrimental to the criminal justice system. This assignment helps students learn to differentiate between "good" evidence and "bad" evidence while creating a scientific mindset!

*Updated with current links to Innocence Project Website sources and link to editable template on final document page.

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The Innocence Project Evidence Assignment

Name: The Innocence Project Evidence Assignment
Brand: Megan Thornhill
SKU: 6242733
Price: 2.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.22 (9 reviews)

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Highlights

Digital downloads

Microsoft PowerPoint, PDF

Grades

9th - 12th, Higher Education

Subjects

Biology, Forensics

Description

*Updated with current links to Innocence Project Website sources and link to editable template on final document page.

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Rated 4.22 out of 5, based on 9 reviews

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Rated 5 out of 5

November 28, 2023

My students loved this activity! I used it in my biology class as an enrichment activity to go along with DNA, and they found it so interesting!

114 reviews

Grades taught: 9th

Rated 5 out of 5

October 20, 2023

My students and I really loved this resource! Thank you!

389 reviews

Grades taught: 10th

Rated 4 out of 5

May 17, 2023

This is a phenomenal resource that allows students to build empathy and compassion for others, review the flaws of the criminal justice system, and organize their findings into a cohesive presentation. The links for the evidence are broken, but I was able to find them just fine on the website. I will recommend this project to others and will do this project with my students for years to come.

770 reviews

Grades taught: 10th

Rated 5 out of 5

June 1, 2022

Great resource!

966 reviews

Grades taught: 11th

Student populations: Emerging bilinguals

Rated 5 out of 5

May 12, 2022

Students in my government class got a real kick out of this activity and it spurred a lot of classroom discussion. Will be using this again in the future!

176 reviews

Grades taught: 12th

Rated 5 out of 5

February 18, 2022

It was a great resource.

1,182 reviews

Grades taught: 9th

Student populations: Emerging bilinguals

Response from

Megan Thornhill

(TPT Seller)

Mar 30, 2022

Thank you, I appreciate it!

Rated 5 out of 5

November 12, 2021

My students loved this project. It was a great unit to engage them and truly think about our justice system.

44 reviews

Grades taught: 8th

Response from

Megan Thornhill

(TPT Seller)

Mar 30, 2022

Thank you so much! I'm glad your students were engaged!

Rated 2 out of 5

January 27, 2021

I was very disappointed with this resource. I was hoping to use it with my Grade 11 Academic Law class as we were starting a new unit on the wrongly convicted. The powerpoint lacks substance. It takes you directly to the Innocence website which is free. The assignment is ok but lacks clarity and could be presented better. There is also a typo. With some revisions and a rubric added it could be a good project or activity for a law class.

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