This video covers a basic method of setting up affirmative cases in competitive debates that use policy resolutions. This is a possible format for NPDA, IPDA, APDA, and NFA-LD debate.

This video covers the basics of refutation in competitive debate. The advice here is aimed at IPDA, Parli, and NFA-LD style debate, but may also be useful for other formats.

Students perform DNA forensics using food coloring to enhance their understanding of DNA fingerprinting, restriction enzymes, genotyping and DNA gel electrophoresis. They place small drops of different food coloring ("water-based paint") on strips of filter paper and then place one paper strip end in water. As water travels along the paper strips, students observe the pigments that compose the paint decompose into their color components. This is an example of the chromatography concept applied to DNA forensics, with the pigments in the paint that define the color being analogous to DNA fragments of different lengths.

This video discusses how debaters can set up their constructive arguments when debating resolutions of value. While written with IPDA and Parliamentary debate in mind, this video should be suitable for a variety of debate styles that utilize resolutions of Fact and of Value.

See also:
Refutation and Rebuttal in Competitive Debate - https://youtu.be/3rggu7MhRuU

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This video covers the basics of running disadvantages in competitive debate. Structure and basic strategy is discussed.

Welcome to Chemistry Applications: Pharmacology, Biotechnology and Forensics, a high school curriculum. Included in this curriculum are many lesson plans that are aligned with the North Carolina Chemistry and Biology Standards, in addition to the National Science Standard. Students will learn to be critically thinking, problem solving individuals who will relate science to the real world.

For this assignment students analyze fingerprints at a burglary scene. They identify types of prints, recommend processing techniques, and analyze minutiae. 

This video covers the specialized method of note-taking used in competitive debates. This video was written with Parliamentary and IPDA styles of debate in mind, but should suffice as primers in other formats as well.

 In this lab students will learn how skeletal remains can be used to estimate the height of an individual. Students will measure several of their bones and the bones of a partner. They will then use a formula to estimate height and compare it to actual height. 

Apply handwriting analysis techniques to a ransom note using suspect handwriting samples to use as testimony evidence in a court case.  The findings will be used to convince a jury in a trial of a person’s guilt.

This lesson on fingerprinting takes a unique approach to a standard topic in Forensic Science. While students will learn the basics of fingerprinting, how to lift a print and learn unique characteristics of fingerprints, they will become aware of the flaws of fingerprinting. By investigating the case of the Madrid Spain Bombing students will discover a match is not always accurate.

Introduction to Criminal Investigation, Processes, Practices, and Thinking is a teaching text designed to assist the student in developing their own structured mental map of processes, practices, and thinking to conduct criminal investigations.

Delineating criminal investigation into operational descriptors of tactical-response and strategic response while using illustrations of task-skills and thinking-skills, the reader is guided into structured thinking practices. Using the graphic tools of a “Response Transition Matrix”, an “Investigative Funnel”, and the “STAIR Tool”, the reader is shown how to form their own mental map of investigative thinking that can later be articulated in support of forming their reasonable grounds to believe.

This video contains a basic overview of the IPDA style of debate. The general guidelines, characteristics, and format are discussed.

This video covers the basics of judging debates at both the college and secondary education levels. This video should give you the basics needed to judge Policy, Parliamentary, IPDA, Public Forum, and LD styles of debate.

This video discovers the common methods of answering advantages and disadvantages in competitive debate. This method is geared and parli and NFA-LD formats, but works for most formats that use resolutions of policy.

For this assignment students read about witness interviews and evidence from a case where a farming assistant was murdered. Students then analyze hair evidence along with other evidence and come to a conclusion about the killer.  

This video provides an overview of four attention-getting strategies speakers can use to open a presentation.

In this assignment students will compare a ransom note to writing samples from suspects to solve a case. The assignment consists of a Google Doc Worksheet and a PDF of the writing samples. 

This video covers the theories of refutation and rebuttal in competitive debate. Methods of using refutation in response to an opponent are discussed.

A sample value debate in the IPDA formatResolved: Chromebooks are better college laptops than MacBooks

In this lesson, students will sift through sediment to find shark teeth. They will measure the teeth using the measurement card from Lesson 1. They will record measurements on the board for the class to see. Once all data are collected, the class will create a bar graph to depict how frequently teeth of certain sizes are found. The shark teeth and data will be sent to Dr. Bucky Gates at the Paleontology and Geology Research Laboratory of the Nature Research Center at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.

Students learn the skill of lateral reading to help identify potential bias in online resources. Students focus their investigation on famous cases involving counterfeiting and fraud - a forensics tie in.

This video shows to way to use a speakers triangle during an academic or forensics speech.

Forensic scientists are recovering buried clues of the lives of early colonists and discovering the stories written in their bones. Using graphics, photos, and online activities, this Webcomic unravels a mystery of historical and scientific importance about the life of a recently discovered 17th century human body along the James River on the Chesapeake Bay. Students can analyze artifacts and examine the skeleton for the tell-tale forensic clues that bring the deceased to life and establish the cause of death. Teacher resources are included. Note: Turn off pop-up blocker to successfully experience all site features.