Looking for an exciting way to teach forensic science? Our new kit, Forensic Escape Room: Design Your Own Biotech Adventure, offers a unique, hands-on approach to learning about blood typing and agarose gel electrophoresis while performing crime-solving techniques. This kit transforms your classroom into an interactive escape room where students play the role of forensic scientists, analyzing the evidence to free the innocent. Through the provided crime scene report, hands on activities, and code-breaking, students build critical thinking skills while deepening their understanding of biotechnology. It’s a fun, immersive way to engage students with real-world applications of forensic science.
Why Use a Biotech Escape Room?
Escape rooms are a proven way to encourage problem-solving and teamwork, but combining this format with forensic science takes learning to the next level. From a laboratory perspective, students gain hands-on experience with techniques that are essential for success in the biotechnology laboratory. The addition of the escape room component adds additional facets to the lesson. First, the crime scene scenario contains information that students must read and interpret to identify alibis for each suspect. Next, the students must perform tests accurately and in the correct order, modeling the process applied in real-world criminal investigations. Finally, students must fully evaluate the results from all modules together, synthesizing their final conclusions. This adds a layer of relevance that boosts engagement and provides real-world context to complex biotech concepts.
How Does It Work?
The kit includes all the materials needed for students to act as crime scene investigators. They’ll analyze DNA samples, compare them using gel electrophoresis, and ultimately solve the case based on their findings. Each task simulates a real forensic lab experience, giving students hands-on exposure to how scientists approach solving crimes.
We’ve even developed videos to use in your pre-lab preparation. Students can view these after reading the background literature as a way to reinforce the concepts before performing the experiments.
Enhancing STEM Learning
By blending the thrill of an escape room with the rigor of forensic science, this kit supports STEM education in a fun, interactive format. The Escape Room Biotech Adventure encourages collaboration, critical thinking, and hands-on learning, making biotechnology and forensic science accessible and exciting for students at any level.
Transform your classroom into a dynamic forensic lab and inspire the next generation of scientists!
The kit is available today at https://www.edvotek.com/190
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