Classroom CSI Experiences
Through a combination of presentations and practical sessions, the students will be taught basic forensic evidence collection techniques, and how these are used in criminal investigations.Starting the session with an assessment of the crime scene, we shall discuss the role of the investigating officers, the CSI, and other personnel involved.
TOPICS COVERED
Immersive Learning
Fingerprints
Students will learn to take their fingerprints, identify features, characteristics, and find latent marks using aluminium powder.
Footwear
"Only Ghosts Don't Leave Footprints!"
Footwear can tell us many things at a crime scene, and the students will get a chance to find these out.
Blood
Blood and DNA profiling are unique to everyone. But the pattern it leaves behind can also tell a story.
Scene Assessment
Students will get an opportunity to assess a crime scene, identifying key evidence, and discuss the opportunities available to the forensics officer.
Practical sessions
Students will be hands on, examining evidence, powdering for marks, comparing fingerprints, and identifying footwear.
Court Awareness
During day-long sessions, the policing and courts processes will also be discussed, with a mock court experience.
Sessions to suit your school
We can offer schools three different types of learning experiences, depending on student numbers and budget.
Both the half and full day sessions will allow students to get a feel of the role of a CSI!
Single Workshops
The single workshops are designed for a single class (approx 30 students), and can be run in either a morning or afternoon.
The workshops will run for for approximately 3 hours, running in line with the school day.
The students will have a chance to assess the crime scene, and recover and identify fingerprints.
2-Half Day Workshops
These half day sessions are designed to fill a morning and an afternoon, fitting into timetable of the school day.
The students will have the chance to attend and assess the crime scene, recover and identify fingerprints,
and assess footwear marks.
The maximum number of students per session is set at 30 .
Two sessions will be delivered, morning and afternoon.
**Session contents may vary**
Full Day Workshops
The full day session is designed to allow a single class of 30 (max) students to have a full day experience of forensic work. They will attend and assess the crime scene, recover and identify fingerprints, and assess footwear marks. They will also get a chance to cast footwear impressions, and to observe the unique characteristics footwear marks have. They will assess DNA evidence, and the clues that can be observed from blood spatter / blood distribution. Other areas of forensics will be discussed including ballistics, and fire scenes.
There will also be an opportunity to write witness statements for the scene examination, and to be questioned in a mock court to test their knowledge of forensics!
The maximum number of students for this single day-long session is 30 (or one single class)
Please contact us for more information on these sessions.
**Session contents may vary**
Online sessions
With the current uncertainty of COVID affecting face to face meetings for youth groups, we can provide a Zoom (or similar) interactive meeting. We will send the relevant items for the evening to the main leader, and these can be distributed to the young people in a manner of their choosing. We will then meet on-line at your regular meeting time, and run the session, and have the young people use the items sent out when needed.
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