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Year 7 and 8 - Forensic Workshop
Leyla and Orla in 8V sent this report:
On Tuesday, students across Year 7 and 8 took part in the forensic challenge. This workshop consisted of learning about many of the different positions used to break down a case. Some consisted of Digital Forensics (inspecting phones for evidence) and Forensic Psychology (which consists of sitting down with the criminal and asking questions to narrow down what exactly happened). We also took part in our own investigation finding out many different Data sources from Laptops to Phones, Fingerprints to UV lights and clothing. Overall, the day was fabulous, we made many different connections with loads of different subjects and made sure to think about everything before judging who to eliminate from the suspect list. The day was great, we really enjoyed ourselves!
The main activity that we participated in was to figure out who committed the crime. We had to uncover lots of evidence in our groups, such as preserving footprints, matching fingerprints, and using UV light to discover blood. As well as this, we also had to figure out how to log into the victim’s laptop and phone and the headmistress’ laptop. After a long day of investigation, we presented our conclusions providing reasoning such as a motive and what evidence led to our beliefs. It was really fun and interesting listening to what people thought and why, especially when they were new ideas we hadn’t thought of!
Overall, it was a really enjoyable experience where we got to learn new things and befriend people we had never talked to before.
Zosia in 7S had this to say about the day:
We started off the day by getting seated into tables of 5. The man running the show started to explain about what exactly forensic science means and how many incredible jobs there are that included into forensic science! Over the morning, we start to explore some techniques used by scientists to identify crimes. We used a type of special plaster to preserve a footmark, graphite and tape to identify fingerprints. The hardest task we faced was in the evening. They gave us a scene, a murder case, and we had to identify who the killer was!
They had a series of clues and puzzles we had to solve. We had four main questions to answer: Who was your main suspect? What evidence do you have to lead to them? How do you know it wasn’t self defence? What was the killers motive? At the end, we all had a chat and discussed our ideas of who was the killer and eventually at the end of the day he revealed it to all of us. Overall it was a great experience and I loved all the interactive things we could do.
