Crime scene #1
Project Reflection:
In this project, our mission was to detect what had happened to the victim in a crime scene we were assigned to with a partner. Before we began the initial investigation, we learned about how exoneration and DNA play a role in our justice system. We watched a few videos having to do with victims in the past that had been wrongfully convicted. The videos showed us the process of exoneration and how forensic science (mainly DNA) is important to determining the truth of the crime scene. Beyond that, a man visited our class who had been wrongfully convicted of killing his step son. He was in prison for 21 years and he told us all about his experiences. After we finished learning about the justice system, we began our crime scene project. There were 3 separate crime scenes that each class was assigned to equally. I got Crime Scene #1 and my partner was TJ Rifkin. Throughout the past month, we learned how to perform basic forensic techniques for solving the crime.
Some of the techniques I learned how to do was: detecting the blood spatter, superglue fuming, blood typing, and conducting an autopsy. To find the blood spatter, you connect the point of origin to each and every spatter found on the wall either above, behind, below, or to the side of the victims body. Once you’ve done that, it’s easier to find which angle the bullet or other weapon had shot the body from. Superglue fuming, also know as fingerprinting, is simple as well. You take the evidence that you are getting evidence from and then put it in a chamber where the evidence sits and the vapor takes over, revealing the fingerprints. Afterwards, many people prefer to add color to the prints to make them even more visible and easier to make out. Blood evidence is soaked in a serum and is determined by the color of the stain while blood typing. Conducting an autopsy is simply the dissection of the victims body which I sadly did not get to perform but I did get all of the basic knowledge behind the process.
The most interesting science, in my opinion, that we worked on was conducting an autopsy. Although we weren’t physically able to dissect a real human body, it was still awesome to read about how it works. Dissection has always interested me and that was certainly my favorite part. During this project, I think that I was really strong in the writing part. We had to write about 5 reports and I feel really confident with each. Writing in general is my favorite subject so it was very helpful for me that we got to tie that in with this project. Something I wish that I’d done better was my awareness tile. I finished it super quickly and turned it in. I just recently refined it and I feel a lot better now. Overall, this project was awesome and I learned a lot about the justice system as well as the human anatomy.
In this project, our mission was to detect what had happened to the victim in a crime scene we were assigned to with a partner. Before we began the initial investigation, we learned about how exoneration and DNA play a role in our justice system. We watched a few videos having to do with victims in the past that had been wrongfully convicted. The videos showed us the process of exoneration and how forensic science (mainly DNA) is important to determining the truth of the crime scene. Beyond that, a man visited our class who had been wrongfully convicted of killing his step son. He was in prison for 21 years and he told us all about his experiences. After we finished learning about the justice system, we began our crime scene project. There were 3 separate crime scenes that each class was assigned to equally. I got Crime Scene #1 and my partner was TJ Rifkin. Throughout the past month, we learned how to perform basic forensic techniques for solving the crime.
Some of the techniques I learned how to do was: detecting the blood spatter, superglue fuming, blood typing, and conducting an autopsy. To find the blood spatter, you connect the point of origin to each and every spatter found on the wall either above, behind, below, or to the side of the victims body. Once you’ve done that, it’s easier to find which angle the bullet or other weapon had shot the body from. Superglue fuming, also know as fingerprinting, is simple as well. You take the evidence that you are getting evidence from and then put it in a chamber where the evidence sits and the vapor takes over, revealing the fingerprints. Afterwards, many people prefer to add color to the prints to make them even more visible and easier to make out. Blood evidence is soaked in a serum and is determined by the color of the stain while blood typing. Conducting an autopsy is simply the dissection of the victims body which I sadly did not get to perform but I did get all of the basic knowledge behind the process.
The most interesting science, in my opinion, that we worked on was conducting an autopsy. Although we weren’t physically able to dissect a real human body, it was still awesome to read about how it works. Dissection has always interested me and that was certainly my favorite part. During this project, I think that I was really strong in the writing part. We had to write about 5 reports and I feel really confident with each. Writing in general is my favorite subject so it was very helpful for me that we got to tie that in with this project. Something I wish that I’d done better was my awareness tile. I finished it super quickly and turned it in. I just recently refined it and I feel a lot better now. Overall, this project was awesome and I learned a lot about the justice system as well as the human anatomy.