After meeting the 'real-life' police officers, we are looking further at HOW crime is solved now- this time using science.

We couldn't get to a real crime scene, but we had a go at some fornesic-style activities in class.

First we studied fingerprints.

  

We tried to find out what patterns our prints had.

Then it was a go at seeing how the size of a droplet can tell us how far it has fallen from- blood splatter- but not with real blood!

  

Finally, we thought about how DNA makes it's own patterns and used filter paper to see what patterns a felt pen would make.