Intel Education: Designing Effective Projects: Forensics


	Designing Effective Projects: Forensics Introducing Crime Solving

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School Crime Scenarios
Distribute these school crime scenarios on slips of paper to small groups. Tell students that the crimes occurred in the school, and students are going to study the scenarios in order to establish the steps of investigating crime. Have each group brainstorm how they would go about solving the crime, and write up a list of about 10 investigative questions that they would need to pursue in order to solve their crime. For example, for the first crime scenario: When did Louise notice that her CD was missing? Was there a witness? How was her locker broken into?

Louise's locker was broken into. She had just saved up her babysitting money to buy a new portable CD player, and it was stolen.

On Monday, when the principal arrived at O'Leary Junior High School, she noticed graffiti in the boy's locker room. Spray painted in big bold letters was, "Break up with Mary!"

O'Leary Junior High School has a very strong tennis team. In fact, they have qualified for the national championship. When Coach Larson came back to school after a weekend, she went to get some tennis rackets for the team's practice and discovered that ten rackets were missing.

Mr. Evans, a ninth-grade math teacher, had a substitute the other day. When he returned to school, he found an anonymous note on his desk. The threatening note said, "Give me an A or else..."

During a school-wide exam, an explosion went off, and the whole school smelled awful. Everyone had to evacuate the building for the rest of the day.

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