A lesson plan is a teacher’s detailed description of the course of instruction for an individual lesson. In today’s modern teaching style, individual lesson plans are often inappropriate. Specific objectives and timelines may be included in the unit plan, but lesson plans are more fluid as they cater to the students needs and learning styles.
Rigid lesson planning with title, objectives and specific outcomes within certain time constraints, often no longer fit within modern effective pedagogy. Today, formal lesson plans are often required only by student teachers, who must be demonstrably familiar with the components of a lesson, or by teachers new to the field, who have not yet internalized the flow of a lesson.
Given below are a series of different lesson plans which may appeal to science professors, currently teaching forensic science in class, involving a range of difficulties and different aspects of forensic science.
Bloodstain Analysis involves introducing students to some of the techniques used by forensic scientists for analyzing blood, the concept of blood type, and providing opportunity for students to practice critical thinking skills in the context of scientific inquiry. The first part is intended to teach students about the catalase test, which is used to detect the presence of blood. The second part addresses blood typing.
Hair Analysis intends to introduce students to the thought process involved in developing a technique for forensic analysis and to the physical structure of hair. It also provides opportunity for students to improve skills in observation, critical thinking and microscopy. The first part requires students to examine a given set of hair. The second part is intended to complement any crime scene scenario. In this part, students examine the hair supposedly collected from the crime scene as well as hair of the suspects and the pets involved. DNA fingerprinting involves the preparation and conduct of the DNA fingerprinting laboratory. It is divided into the following parts- Preparation of the student materials, plasmid DNA preparation, restriction endonuclease preparation, migration dye preparation and preparation, loading and running of an agarose gel for use with carolina blue stain.
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