Science Files

Incorporate forensic ballistics and history! Use this rubric as a cumulative assessment to have students learn the history of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the many conspiracies behind the assassination, and apply what they have learned about ballistics.

Pretend you are working in a hospital for a day and use dimensional analysis skills to find the medication needed to give to patients. Students must show their work in patient reports and use dimensional analysis to convert metric units. This resources gives your students roles to help them work in groups to solve problems. There are patients for one step dimensional analysis problems and patients for one and two step dimensional analysis problems.

A great way to introduce toxicology! Have students discover the effects of various doses of chemicals on biological systems. Analyze the growth of radish seeds in response to the addition of chemicals. This resource gives you all the tools (except the radish seeds) to help students plan and execute a great lab. The students design a lab, with some guidance, collect data, and present their findings. This resource is broken up into three parts. Part 1 requires the student to develop a lab procedur

A fun activity to have students think about how people can make forged documents and how precise one has to be to make an exact replica. Students are required to make their own forgery of an original document using a technique to age paper and can compete for the best product!

Have students discover the characteristics of their fingerprints! This resource can be used to identify the ridge characteristics of their own finger prints and of the class. They will learn what these features look like and which features appear more commonly than others.