Observation VS Perception
True or Flase:
A witnesses observation is always accurate.
What is false?
This is the first step of the scientific method.
What is asking questions?
Relating scientific knowledge to legal questions.
What is forensic?
This is a statement that can be verified
What is a fact?
Name one profession that uses forensic science
What are...
Cops
Scientists
Lawyers
Your brain does this in order to help make sense of what you observe.
What is fill in the gaps?
Writing your results on poster board to share with the class is this step of the scientific method.
What is reporting your results?
A series of logical steps used to reach your conclusion.
What is deductive reasoning?
The victim was 5’11” tall.
What is a fact?
The Innocence Project revealed that many prisoners were wrongly convicted due to...
What is faulty eye witness observations?
This changes observation to perception.
What is your interpretation?
What is bias?
What is emotion?
The term scientists used to describe an educated guess.
What is a hypothesis?
An eyewitness is a person who has seen someone or something and also has the ability to ...
What is to communicate facts about what they observed?
He must be the killer because he looks sketchy.
What is opinion?
What number represents the number of cases reviewed by the Innocence Project?
What is 200 cases?
What is something that observation and perception both use?
What are the five senses?
While the controlled group stays the same, this group changes.
What is variable?
The way in which scientists solve problems.
What is the scientific method?
Opinions are based on someone’s...
What is personal beliefs?
This is the year that the Innocence Project was founded.
What was 1992?
This emotional state is considered to be the best for observation.
What is relaxed?
The six steps of the scientific method are...
Ask a question
Do background research
Construct a hypothesis
Design and test your experiment
Analyze your data and draw a conclusion
Report your results
This set of skills includes the ability to identify the problem, organize information, establish a criteria for evaluation, and to draw an appropriate conclusion.
What are analytical skills?
Queens is the most ethnically diverse urban area in the entire world.
What is fact?
There are over 137 languages spoken in the borough.
Name one of the two people who founded the innonence project.
Who is Barry Scheck?
Or
Who is Peter Neufeld?