National Standards for Grade Levels 9-14
Explore how physics can play a role in criminal investigation. Students use totally safe synthetic blood to investigate how gravity, distance, force, and angle of impact affect blood spatter patterns. They learn how luminol is used and how to construct and investigate with a blood spatter chamber. Includes directions and student worksheets for calculating angle of impact, area of convergence, and point of origin from blood spatter patterns. Includes a literary component for staging and analyzing a crime scene scenario. Allow 2-1/2 hours of lab time plus 1-1/2 hours of class time to complete the seven activities. A black light is required. Designed for 24 students working in groups of four.
Blood Spatter
- Instructor's Manual
- Blood Spatter Chamber Box
- Blood Spatter Chamber Pedestal (Block and Disc)
- Spatter Hammer
- Dowel Rods
- Clipboards
- Packing Tape
- Simulated Blood
- Sodium Perborate
- Sodium Carbonate
- Luminol
- Rubber Bands
- Metric Rulers
- Metric Tape Measures
- Protractors
- Simulated Blood Hemoglobin
- Spray Bottles
- Filter Paper
- Blood Spatter Paper
- Pipets
Box 1 Sh. wt. 4lbs, DIM 13” x 12” x 5”
Box 2 Sh. wt. 6lbs, DIM 20” x 12” x 5”
Refill Kit 10-550R
Sh. wt. 3lbs, DIM 13” x 12” x 5”
Blood Splatter Chamber Only 10-550-CH
Sh. wt. 3lbs, DIM 16” x 13” x 8”