Unit 3: Time of Death

LP 3.1 Students will be able to (I can) use the cause and effect relationship to obtain, evaluate, and communicate how forensic scientists to Processing/Testing Evidence to determine the cause, manner, and mechanism of death.

LP 3.2 Students will be able to (I can) use mathematics and computational thinking and stability and change to determine the time of death.

LP 3.3 Students will be able to (I can) use scale proportion and quantity to analyze and interpret data to determine the time of death.

STUDENTS WILL:
Students will be able to estimate a decedent's post-mortem interval (PMI) by analyzing biological changes—including algor, livor, and rigor mortis, and forensic entomology data —while accounting for environmental variables that alter the rate of decomposition.

EXPLORE THE FOLLOWING SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING PRACTICES:

- Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking
-Developing and Using Models
-Analyzing and Interpreting Data


HAVE DISCOURSE ON THE FOLLOWING DISCIPLINARY CORE IDEAS:

-HS-LS1.C Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms
-HS-LS2.B Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics
HS-PS1.B Chemical Reactions & Thermodynamics

OBSERVE THE FOLLOWING CROSS CUTTING CONCEPTS:
-Stability and Change
-Scale, Proportion, and Quantity
-Cause and Effect

Graduation Standard

4c: Analyze data in order to make valid and reliable scientific claims and predictions

 4e: Apply a range of mathematical techniques to make sense of and interpret data in real-world applications

4b: Compare and contrast various types of data sets to examine consistency of measurement and observations