News
Tuesday 17 June 2008
Campus 'Cluedo' to help National Curriculum
A staged crime scene is attracting school teachers across the East Midlands to learn more about forensic science. Nottingham Trent University’s very own ‘crime house’ facility complete with finger prints, blood stains, footprints and crime scene tape, will play host to a Forensic Awareness day on Friday 27th June.
New ‘Applied Science’ courses within the national curriculum are now allowing teachers to demonstrate the real life applications of science to their pupils. The Forensic Awareness day at Nottingham Trent University will provide teachers with the chance to witness forensic science in action to help them develop ways in which it can be brought into the classroom.
The crime house, based at the University’s Clifton campus, can be set up to demonstrate any number of scenarios and is used by students studying Forensic Science to learn the methods used for collecting and analysing evidence. The teachers attending the Forensic Awareness Day will be working in teams of four, each with their own burglary crime scene located in the house.
Following a morning’s training in crime scene investigation techniques they will record their crime scene with sketches and notes, search for evidence and recover and package anything they find. Using the evidence they have collected they will then go through the relevant examination techniques in the University’s forensic laboratories and try to decide ‘who's done it?’
Dave Butler, Principal Lecturer in Forensic Science from the School of Science and Technology and organiser of the event, said: “We’re looking forward to having the teachers with us for the day. Science is a fascinating subject and hopefully we can help towards making pupils realise just what it can be used for in the real world.”
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Notes for editors:
The Forensic Awareness Day will take place from 9.30am – 4.30pm on Friday 27 June at Nottingham Trent University’s Clifton Campus.
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