WISRD LSL Forensics Curriculum

Posters for Fall 22 and Spring 23

Despite the website being down for half of this academic year, much progress was made on my project this year. Click the icon to read the posters for the WISRD Physiology Group this year, as well as posters from past years.

Journal entries imported from the previous iteration of wisrd.org

WISRD LSL FORENSICS CURRICULUM

WISRD is proud to announce the first collaboration between the Life Sciences Lab (LSL) and the mainstream Wildwood curriculum. In development right now is a Forensics lesson plan. Framed in the narrative of a murder mystery written by project co-leader Conor Grice. The curriculum will focus on the science behind a forensic investigation. This involves:

  • Fingerprinting: what gets left behind, what leaves the shape (why friction ridges?), why is everybody’s different? Are there genetically inherited shapes?

  • Blood typing: ABO, Rh type. Genetic inheritance, function of different proteins, usefulness as identifier

  • DNA sampling: How are they used/compared to known DNA, which snippets of DNA are most useful/diagnostic to amplify, what about relatives?

The lesson will take place in late March early April in the Advanced Biology class for Wildwood seniors.