Are you interested in learning about how crimes are solved? Explore the connection between the real world, science, and technology while learning about the field of forensics. This is a hands on course and students will be active participants in labs, activities, mysteries, and presentations. Some of the topics include eyewitness identification, blood spatter patterns, fingerprinting, trace evidence, bite mark evidence with candy, chromatography, and handwriting analysis. Students gain insight into the workings of the legal system as they examine cases and outcomes. Students will be in charge of creating their own mystery, that the rest of the class will be participants in. By the end of the course, students will be crime solving masters!