Teaching examples, not student testimonials. The sample week, model notebook, and demonstration prompts illustrate the intended learning process; they do not report an enrolled student's results. Current program status and next steps.
Look inside the Forensic Science pack.
No sign-up, no email required. Here is a sample week, a real rubric, a model lab-notebook entry, and a sample demonstration. These are the materials themselves, not a brochure. Every sample links to the full artifact it’s drawn from.
One week, two days on the evidence.
The course meets two days a week for about two hours a day, across roughly 32 weeks. Here is week one of Unit 1 — Crime Scene & Evidence Basics: the student works a real scene before a single definition is memorized.
- Observation & Locard’s principle
- Scene documentation
- Chain of custody
- Systematic search pattern
- Measured sketch & scale photos
- Collect, package & log evidence
How “mastered” is actually judged.
Every skill is scored at one of three levels against a published standard, without points or grading on a curve. Here is one criterion from the Crime Scene & Evidence Basics rubric — sketch & scale photography, shown as a parent or guide would read it:
| Level | What it looks like — “Measured sketch & scale photos” |
|---|---|
| Developing | Rough sketch with no measurements or scale. |
| Proficient | Sketches or photographs but omits a scale or key measurements. |
| Mastery | Produces a measured sketch with a north arrow and photographs every item with an L-scale before it is moved. |
Browse the full rubric set → · How this becomes an A–F grade →
The artifact a student builds, keeps, and defends.
The lab notebook is the primary record of a student's work, written in pen at the bench and explained aloud. Here is one model Lab Day, showing how each section is recorded. Notice the crossed-out first spot that sat in the solvent and the honest sources of error.
| Band | Distance (cm) | Rf |
|---|---|---|
| solvent front | 8.0 | — |
| blue | 6.4 | 0.80 |
| red | 4.6 | 0.58 |
| yellow | 2.7 | 0.34 |
- Dated & titled entries
- A testable question & hypothesis
- Units on every number
- Significant figures, honestly reported
- Calculations shown, not just answers
- Written in pen during the lab; errors crossed out, not erased
- Error analysis with direction & size
The moment that can’t be faked.
Three times a year, a student performs and defends a demonstration, standing with their own work and reasoning aloud while an adult asks unscripted follow-ups. In the timed scene processing, they work a mock scene and its evidence set under the clock, documenting and justifying every call as they go.
“I ran a grid search so I wouldn’t miss a corner, sketched the room to scale with a north arrow, and shot every item with an L-scale before moving it. The shoe print by the window I photographed and cast first — it’s fragile and near the entry, so it’s the piece most likely to be lost if I wait.”
A passing answer from the timed scene-processing defense — justifying the order of work and the documentation, not reciting a definition.
The whole pack, ready for a binder.
Everything here is available to read online. Every rubric, checklist, and guide also has a print-ready packet version, formatted 8.5×11 for a clipboard or a three-ring binder. You assemble the student’s binder from the pack itself; there’s nothing else to buy to hold it in your hands. We’ve put them all in binder order on one page: Assemble the Forensic Science binder →
Seen enough to start?
The whole Forensic Science pack is open to read and print. Open it and begin, or ask us a question first. A real person answers.