FORENSIC SCIENCE INCURSION

MRS JACLYN CLARK

This week our year 8 and 9 students had the opportunity to engage with Education Interactive, a passionate team of professionals who are all about engaging students in science and encouraging the uptake of STEM subjects in later school years. They present their workshops in Forensic Science to schools across Australia, UK and Ireland. We were lucky enough to have Simon attend and present the workshop ‘A Case of Conspiracy’.

This interactive workshop enabled students to examine a crime scene scenario and attempt to work out who was responsible for the crime. Students saw how different forensic techniques enabled us to determine what happened and who was involved in each aspect of the crime event.

Students investigated crime scene stations including:

Fingerprinting and Handwriting Analysis
Micro-spectrophotometry (MSP) Data Comparison
Digital Microscopy
Arson Investigation
Ballistics
Autopsy Report
DNA Profiling
Blood Detection
Tyre Thread Impressions
Digital Evidence

This workshop enabled students to see how different forms of science can lead to exciting careers in the forensic science field. We would like to thank Simon from Education Interactive for an engaging and insightful day with our students.

Jaclyn Clark

Curriculum Leader Science