Intel ISEF Educational Outreach Day Curriculum and Resources for Teachers

Take advantage of these pre and post visit activities, videos and links to get your students ready for the Intel ISEF Education Outreach Day, and to extend the experience long after you return! 

 STEM RESOURCES – Features background information, activities, games, quizzes, career profiles and other links on regional STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields.

Intel ISEF Education Outreach Day Passport: Every student visiting Education Outreach Day will receive a hard copy of this passport.  Feel free to familiarize yourself and your students with this resource pre-visit.  Please do not feel the need to print your own copies.

 Forensics Resources

 GENERAL FORENSICS

 Crime and Punishment Museum Detective Lesson Plan with in depth information part1, Crime and Punishment Museum Detective Lesson Plan with in depth information Part2  

• Forensics Quiz
• Biometrics Interactive Quiz
• What is Biometrics? What is Forensics?
• CSI Effect

 CAREERS

• Video Interviews
• Medical Laboratory Specialist (interesting & in depth) 
• Forensic Technician & Forensic Pathologist
• DR. G – wide range of videos including microscope and saw, the decomp room, internal exam, measurement and more! (see MPEG)
• Meet the morgue staff
• Resource Guide to Careers in Toxicology

CRIME SCENE

• Crime and Punishment Museum Introduction to CSI

WITNESSES

• CMU Facial Recognition Research

Fingerprinting

• Fingerprint Slides
• Crime and Punishement Museum Fingerprint Activity and in-depth information
• Chemical Imaging: Potential Crime Busting Tool

BLOOD

• Blood Spatter Slides
• Crime and Punishment Museum Bloodstain Pattern Activity and in depth information
• How Luminol Works
• Cleaners Confound Crime Scene Blood Tests

FIREARMS

• Firearms Activity and in depth information

IMPRESSIONS

• Impressions Slides
• Crime and Punishment Museum Impressions Activity and in depth information

MISCELLANEOUS TRACE EVIDENCE

• Crime and Punishment Museum Questioned Document Analysis Activity and in depth information
• Caught Web-handed

TOXICOLOGY

• National Geographic’s Drugs, Inc. – Videos, photos, and commentary

DNA

• Crime and Punishment Museum DNA Activity and in depth information
• Timeline – Interactive DNA Timeline - click on arrival on timeline for images /links!
• Film – GATTACA, a breathtaking, if somewhat cold and sterile, look into the future. (movie trailer)
• Game – Finding the Structure of DNA - Putting It Together - Base Pair Interactive
• Animation – An Animated Primer on the Basics of Genetics
• Interactive exercise – Diagnosis information for genetic counseling (a learning ‘game’)
• Book – The Blooding, a novel about the first use of DNA fingerprinting in a court case
• DNA Interactive Modules – DNA Interactive Modules including Lesson Builder
• Fact Sheet – Brief Guide to Genomics
• Activities – Genetic Education Modules

Learn about:

• Innocence Project
• The UK, Dolly the sheep, and more!
• DNA ID of Sept. 11th Victims
• New Technique Using Family’s DNA to convict…or exonerate!
• Artificial DNA
• Zombie DNA - Not Really Dormant!