Description
The Murder at Old Fields® Online Forensic Science Labs, Small Class Pack contains 8 lessons and 5 lab activities for middle and high school students based on the 1842 double murder of Alexander and Rebecca Smith at their farmhouse in Old Fields, Long Island, NY. This is an online activity that students access via a web browser on any device connected to the Internet, including desktops, laptops, tablets, Chromebook® computers, or smartphones. Lessons include:
- Lesson 1: The Crime
- Lesson and Lab 2: Hair Analysis
- Lesson and Lab 3: Blood Analysis
- Lesson and Lab 4: Fingerprint Analysis
- Lesson and Lab 5: DNA Analysis
- Lesson and Lab 6: Footprint Impressions
- Lesson 7: Solve Crime
- Lesson 8: Historical Documents
Meticulously crafted to reflect the facts of this long cold case, Murder at Old Fields® is also an ideal interdisciplinary/cross-curricular learning experience, with a rich immersion in American history and a strong narrative of the crime and the time.
Small Class Pack includes one reusable teacher account and 10 single-use student accounts.
Product Features
- Problem-based learning (PBL) lessons that teach forensic science according to the Next Generation Science Standards® (NGSS)*
- Quizzes are automatically graded to quickly and easily gauge a student’s mastery of the science lessons
- Discovery of the evidence at the 3D crime scene of a historically accurate rural American 19th-century farmhouse
- Lab activities to analyze evidence, record data, and apply the scientific method to solve problems through compelling and engaging use of the most advanced online tools available
- Easy-to-use accounts where students can assess their results and teachers can monitor student performance
- Teachers can choose to enable some or all of the lab activities to accommodate the class schedule and help students learn through discovery at their own pace
- Murder at Old Fields® is the first set of labs in the Case History Forensic Science Series that now also includes Diablo Highway™ with both real world and digital labs (items #212280 to #212294) and Who Took Fluffy?™ (items #212300 to #212311 and items #211313 to #212319), which provides a similar breadth and depth of forensic activities for grades 6–8
*Next Generation Science Standards® is a registered trademark of WestEd. Neither WestEd nor the lead states and partners that developed the Next Generation Science Standards were involved in the production of this product, and do not endorse it.