Forensics Self Paced (Year Long: Grades 7-12)
Forensics Self Paced (Year Long: Grades 7-12)
This is a FULL YEAR of forensics, condensed into one 17 week semester, or use the time to complete it in a year. Is your child interested in a unique science credit course? A career in forensics? This course will teach your child how to analyze crime scenes and how to use problem-solving skills. This course will count as an elective or 4th science credit for highschoolers.
Class experience
This is a full year of forensics condensed into one semester (17 weeks). This is one of the most popular forensics courses on Outschool and for charter school programs. Mrs. Collins has had over 50 students complete the class in the first months of offering the course. So this is a very popular science credit course.
Class is normally offered in a private school setting for $599, but discounted to help homeschoolers, private school, public school students, and others for $99 only.
This course is commonly used to meet high school science credit. This course falls into the same category as Biology, Anatomy, Chemistry and Environmental Science for science credit.
Forensic Studies encompasses the wide array of academic disciplines that apply specific knowledge, techniques, and technology to the investigation of crimes and to the law. This is a year long course condensed into one semester.This course will consist of a total of 17 weeks of instruction. So please note the material will be provided at a condensed rate but families have a full year to complete.
Class Experience
This course will include a textbook in pdf online format, videos summary clips on some topics, weekly chapter reading assignments, written response activities, graphic organizers, diagrams, experiments/labs, notecards, discussion questions and demonstrations.
***Pre-requisite: It is recommended that students have knowledge of basic middle school science before beginning this course. The course is geared towards high school students, but middle school students are welcome too. Parents are asked to help the student the first week of class. This course involves independent reading and inquiry based learning at an 8th grade reading level. This may not be suitable for students with learning disabilities because of the large amount of material condensed, please reach out to the instructor to see if this class will be a good fit for your child's learning style.
HOW A FLEX CLASS WORKS:
A flex class means that the class does not meet for live meetings, but instead the lesson will be uploaded for the student at his or her convenience via slideshows, videos or chapter pdfs to read. Each Sunday the week's lesson will be uploaded. This class does involve a lot of independent learning so all flex parents are asked to check the class wall once a week to make sure the child is working at a steady pace, coming the tasks in order, and not accumulating missing work.
HOW IS THE MATERIAL PRESENTED:
This course contains 17 chapters provided, complete with chapters to read (10-15 pages), case studies, practice questions, and optional labs in each pdf chapter. *Students will be given two chapters to read each week for a total of 10-15 pages of reading at an 8th grade reading level. Each week a new pdf chapter will be uploaded for the student to read, and then make notecards over the vocabulary at the beginning of the chapter (total of 10-12 vocabulary notecards each week). Students will upload an image or video to show cards have been completed before beginning the chapter readings. Each chapter will also have 1-2 discussion questions to answer on the class wall. These discussion questions are standards based, and tailored for the chapter. The tasks will need to be completed before moving onto the next chapter. Students are asked to complete all task on the class wall to help with comprehension, and not skip tasks. After each chapter a test link will be provided using Quizlet.
Testing: Because this is a FLEX course, we are flexible on how the parent would like the class graded. The instructor will provide a link to take an online test over the chapter. Quizlet and Quizizz will be used for testing, and the site will grade the test too so it is a beneficial resource for families. Students will be asked to keep up with their assessment grades in their science spiral. Parents are asked to check the spiral regularly to look over grades.
WHAT TOPICS WILL BE COVERED:
Chapter 1 Intro To Forensics
Chapter 2 Crime Scene Investigation History And Protocol
Chapter 3 Hair Sampling
Chapter 4 Fibers And Textiles
Chapter 5 Spores and Pollen
Chapter 6 Fingerprints
Chapter 7 Fingerprints And DNA
Chapter 8 Blood
Chapter 9 Drug Toxicology
Chapter 10 Handwriting Analysis
Chapter 11 Cause Of Death
Chapter 12 Soil Analysis
Chapter 13 Forensic Anthropology
Chapter 14 Glass
Chapter 15 Cast And Footprints
Chapter 16 Tool Marks
Chapter 17 Ballistics
Project: Pick a chapter you enjoyed the most, and summarize it with a visual demonstration, paper, diorama or slideshow.
Participation will include an introduction post, discussion posts, assignments, and projects in Google Classroom. Participation in assignments allows students to practice and reinforce learning.
The last week of class, students will pick a previous topic that interest them the most to further research. A list of potential research topics and experiments will be provided to pick from, if the student needs help. Throughout the class, optional additional video clips will be provided in the areas of hair analysis, fingerprinting, spore retrieval, and other specific job areas in the field of forensics. If your student is interested in a particular field, please reach out to Mrs. Collins and she will share more resources in that area to enjoy job and career research.