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Estimating Height from Bones | 2 Day Worksheet

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This 2 day activity teaches students how forensic anthropologists use long bones to estimate height. Activities include exploring the history of height estimation, applying sex- and ethnicity-specific formulas, comparing calculated vs. actual height, and deriving linear equations from tibia data. Students also solve applied forensic scenarios and reflect on career connections. This activity reinforces measurement skills, data analysis, and the application of mathematical formulas in forensic ant

10th - 12th, Higher Education

Anatomy, Biology, Forensics

Oregon Trail CSI Investigation – Westward Expansion Activity

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The History Cat

CSI Investigation: Oregon Trail - Case of the Missing Wagon TrainA wagon found. Bones uncovered. A family lost to time. Send students into a real-world historical investigation where they learn about conditions on the Oregon Trail while reconstructing what happened to a vanished pioneer family. In this CSI-style historical investigation, students act as forensic historians examining the mysterious disappearance of the Halbrook family along the Oregon Trail in 1835. Using diary excerpts, archaeol

7th - 12th

Forensics, Other (Social Studies), U.S. History

CCSS

WHST.9-10.1a

, WHST.9-10.1e

, WHST.9-10.7