Searching the net assignment.

This week our assignment was to select a grade and subject that we could see ourselves teaching and create an activity based on resources that we found on internet. During class we were given some hints on how to do an effective internet search which made the assignment that much easier.

Title of Activity

Cretaceous Crime Scene

Reference
Layton, J. (2010). How Crime Scene Investigation Works. Retrieved from: http://science.howstuffworks.com/csi.htm

Royal Tyrrell Museum. (2006). Cretaceous Crime Scene. Retrieved from: http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/seccs/index.html

Grade Level

 Grade 6 Science Topic D: Evidence and Investigation

Description of activity

            The first website is a overview of what crime scene investigators do. It outlines the process. The second website is an interactive website that allows students to go on and complete an investigation. This activity can be used at the end of the unit to integrate everything they have learned. This is a comprehensive site that allows students to go on look at and analyze evidence, eliminate suspects and finally make an arrest. Students will have to record their observations as they go along and come up with a motive.

General Learner Expectations

6-8 Apply observation and inference skills to recognize and interpret patterns and to distinguish a specific pattern from a group of similar patterns.  

6-9 Apply knowledge of the properties and interactions of materials to the investigation and identification of a material sample.

Specific Learner Expectations

2. Observe a set of footprints, and infer the direction and speed of travel.

3. Recognize that evidence found at the scene of an activity may have unique characteristics that allow an investigator to make inferences about the participants and the nature of the activity, and give examples of how specific evidence may be used.

4. Investigate evidence and link it to a possible source; e.g., by:

classifying footprints, tire prints and soil samples from a variety of locations

analyzing the ink from different pens, using paper chromatography

analyzing handwriting samples to identify the handwriting of a specific person

comparing samples of fabric

    classifying fingerprints collected from a variety of surfaces.

List of the most relevant ICT outcomes

C.1 - Students will access, use and communicate information from a variety of technologies.

            2.1 access and retrieve appropriate information from the Internet by using a specific search path or from given uniform resource locations (URLs)

F.2 - Students will understand the role of technology as it applies to self, work and society.

2.2            identify the role technology plays in a variety of careers

Rationale for computer integration

            I have chosen this activity because it is interactive. The first website will allow students to get a sense of putting all the pieces of the unit together. After students have gone through what a real crime scene looks like they will be able to go onto the second website where they will complete an investigation. It will be fun and engaging and will allow students to use the knowledge they have gained during the unit. Students will be able to see some of what is needed when completing an investigation. They will look at the technology involved in being a crime scene analyst. This is a good website because it relates to dinosaurs and not a gruesome crime scene.