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Description: Given information about five murders, students will be asked to predict if there is a pattern or if the acts were random. Using the discovered pattern, they will predict the location of three other victims with geometric construction. After locations are verified, students will research the toxic effects of various poisons on the human body. Using this data, they will use a qualitative analysis to verify the poison used in each murder. Each victim is killed with a different poison, the first letter of which, is an anagram for the name of the murderer.
Subjects: Geometry,
Chemistry, Biology
Grade Level: 10 or 11
Learner Description: Average, college bound
Time Frame: One week
Learner Outcomes:
Geometry: construct vertices of a regular polygon
Biology: identify physiological effects of poisons
through pictures and descriptions via the internet
Chemistry:
to perform qualitative analyses
of samples
to identify the chemical nature of poisons