An Algor Mortis Lab Your Students Won’t Forget
My Death Investigation Unit is my all-time favorite topic to teach in my Forensic Science class! It’s filled with interesting content, fun activities, engaging labs, and my students love it just as much as I do. When a fellow forensics teacher, Jason Briski, shared the idea to use a hot dog to teach algor mortis in my Forensic Science Teachers collaborative Facebook group, I knew I had to add it to my lesson plan line-up. Today, on the blog, I am sharing An Algor Mortis Lab Your Students Won’t Forget.
Jason’s idea was simple- place a hot dog in a hot water bath, remove it from the heat, and record the temperature of the hot dog as it cooled. When he shared his idea, I thought, “This will be the perfect way to introduce algor mortis to my students.” After adding some of my own flair to the lab, I created this lab worksheet that my students used to conduct the lab.
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This was a great introduction lab for teaching algor mortis to your forensics students. It really gave my students a visual representation of how a body loses heat after death. The analysis questions at the end of the lab brought up some great conversations between my students.
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Thank you for checking out today’s post: An Algor Mortis Lab Your Students Won’t Forget! I hope that you found something in today’s blog post that you can use in your Forensics class! Until next time….
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