Turning Detective

Year 6 took part in a fascinating detective day and learnt how science is used to catch criminals. They learnt about different types of finger prints and how to dust for prints on a surface using a brush and used black dye to take their own prints! They were given a scenario involving a bank robber and a random note and learnt how to apply chromatography to compare ink from the pens of three suspects to identify the criminal.Their third detective mystery involved a dressed skeleton and clues around the ‘body’. The children how methods such as DNA, dental records, living cells from blood or hair roots and skeleton information are used to help identify a body and to work out what happened.