7TH GRADE -
GQ: How might 7th grade students at CMS be able to better understand how crimes are solved in Bartow County?
ELA:
GQ: How might 7th grade students be able to better understand how crimes are solved in Bartow County? ELA students will be demonstrating proficiency in the following standards: ELAGSE7W2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content. |
November 6:
Students began reading three informational texts about the criminal justice system. Students analyzed each text to answer guiding questions that revealed the Who, What, When, Where Why and How. They used their knowledge to write a summary of each article. November 27: Students began writing an informational essay, where the writing prompt asked them to identify at least two experts who investigate crimes and explain how their expertise contributes to the main goal of criminal justice: determining perpetrators and putting them behind bars. December 6: Students are using the Writable Platform to submit their final draft revisions. |
Science:
GQ: Can we build a criminal profile & help solve the crime of the stolen Crystal Saber using science? S7L3b. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to explain how organisms reproduce either sexually or asexually and transfer genetic information to determine the traits of their offspring. b. Develop and use a model to describe how asexual reproduction can result in offspring with identical genetic information while sexual reproduction results in genetic variation. |
10/09 Students began by researching cell division, mitosis & meiosis. (S7L2b.)
11/10 Students investigated different types of fingerprints: whorl, loop, and arch. 11/11 Students put their own fingerprints in STEM journals and decided which pattern their fingerprint aligned to. 11/12 Students began investigating the mystery of the stolen Crystal Saber and careers involved with crime scene investigations. 11/15 Students had a short presentation from the GBI field office, Special Agent Will Gee and Special Agent Crime Scene Specialist Evan Driskill, students were able to ask questions about the agent’s careers and what academic degrees are needed to become a GBI agent. 11/17 Students learned the Crystal Saber was returned and that Officer Scott has latent prints and some blood evidence. 12/06 Students worked in small groups on a blood type lab to determine the blood type left at the crime scene. Students will work in groups to collect all evidence and create a criminal profile and wanted poster of a possible suspect. Students must include reasoning behind the choice of suspect and align the justification to the standard. |
Math:
GQ: Can we build a criminal profile & help solve the crime of the stolen Crystal Saber using math? 7.PAR.4.1 Recognize proportional relationships in relevant, mathematical problems; represent, solve, and explain these relationships with tables, graphs, and equations. |
Students have researched crime rates in Bartow County from 2000 – present in five-year increments, as well as the current year. Students learned that crime rates are listed per population of 100,000. If they found the actual numbers or crimes, as opposed to the crime rates, students had to divide the number of crimes by the population, and then multiply by 100,000. Students were supposed to collect 10 adult shoe sizes and heights. Students were told that an adult shoe size is 15% of their height. Students did math to determine whether this seemed to be accurate and wrote about this in their agendas. Most students found that the shoe size was typically close to 15% of the height of their subjects. They determined that this would be a good way for law enforcement to obtain the height of a person, based on a shoe print left at the scene. There were, however, some outliers, and this was discussed as well. Students will determine the approximate height of a suspect based on the shoe print left at the scene.
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