Crime Scene Investigation Career Exploration
Overview
Middle and High School educators from across Lebanon County, Pennsylvania developed lesson plans to integrate the Pennsylvania Career Education and Work Standards with the content they teach. This work was made possible through a partnership between the South Central PA Workforce Investment Board (SCPa Works) and Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 (IU13) and was funded by a Teacher in the Workplace Grant Award from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry. This lesson plan was developed by one of the talented educators who participated in this project during the 2019-2020 school year.
Title of Lesson: Crime Scene Investigation Career Exploration
Course Name: Crime Scene Investigation
Grade Level: 11th -12th
Author’s Name: Matthew Bishop
Author’s School District: Annville Cleona School District
| PA Academic Standards for Reading & Writing in Science & Technical Subjects | |
CC.3.6: Writing: Students write for different purposes and audiences. Students write clear and focused text to convey a well-defined perspective and appropriate content. CC.3.6.11-12.BWrite informative/explanatory texts, including the narration of historical events, scientific procedures/ experiments, or technical processes. | |
| PA Academic Standards for Career Education and Work | |
13.1: Career Awareness and Preparation 13.1.11.A. Relate careers to individual interests, abilities, and aptitudes. 13.1.11.B. Analyze career options based on personal interests, abilities, aptitudes, achievements, and goals. 13.1.11.C. Analyze how the changing roles of individuals in the workplace relate to new opportunities within career choices. 13.1.11.E. Justify the selection of a career. | |
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| Conceptual Background | |
Students have already chosen their careers and spent a class period researching (Top Forensic Science Career Guide) and working on their presentations in order to present to the class | |
| Instructional Procedure | |
| 45 minutes (one period) | |
Students present their projects highlighting on their new-found knowledge of a CSI career
** These must be detailed enough for everyone to understandDuring each presentation, students will take notes in order to analyze and compare all of the career options presented by other students. | |
| 45 minutes (one period) | |
Students will write a reflective essay that addresses the following:
*If students have not already had instruction on writing a basic informational essay, a mini lesson or lessons may be needed | |
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