It would seem that Jack has been found dead at the bottom of the beanstalk. Thankfully, there are forensic scientists that can locate and identify the perpetrator, using different types of evidence.

Before these forensic scientists are ready to be released into real crime scenes, they need to know gathering and investigative techniques. In forensic teacher Mrs. Amie Torres’ classroom, she did this by having her students make cardboard fakes of crime scenes from fairy tales, with evidence to point the way to a criminal.

“As the students examined these mini crime scenes, they looked for evidence collected at the scene, compared the model to the crime scene sketch, determined if the key evidence bagged would narrow down the suspect and reviewed the crime scene reconstruction reports,” Mrs. Torres said.

This was done in a gallery walk, where the students went around looking at each other’s work and piecing together, using a written story supplied with it, what had exactly happened in each of the scenes depicted.

“The gallery walk was an opportunity for students to assess their peers’ inspired Fairy Tale Crime Scenes,” Mrs. Torres said.

After finishing their gallery walks, the students were allowed to return to the class and later get their crime scenes back.

“I was extremely impressed to see the outpour of creativity and the understanding of the basics of crime scene investigation,” Mrs. Torres said.