The same sort of things that teachers tell you I guess. We teach in a modular system, so each module will have a set of lectures (where we tell students some theory, background to cases and other subject-relevant information) and then do the practical work, where the theory is re-inforced by doing someing applied (like surveying for my pigs!).
It never goes on for an hour for me, usually 40-45 minutes and I do 5 minute Youtube video summaries to aid students revision and hopefully it goes in!
I teach undergraduates about all aspects of forensic entomology, especially my research. The work I am carrying out is not available for them to read online yet, so they really are getting the cutting-edge knowledge from the horses mouth!
Hi to you both,
I generally give a 2-3 hour lecture in the classroom and then go back a couple of weeks later and do a practical lesson, with a skid test in my police vehicle and a fabricated pedestrian crash scene, with fictitious statements, a ‘splat’ mark in front of the vehicel, to indicate where the ped landed, and a shoe behind the vehicle, with a heel scuff to show the point of impact. the students come out, as collision investigators and photograph and record the scene.
They are later given a scale plan and the statements and, together with the basic maths, physics and forensics that I gave them in the first lecture, produce a collision investigation report for me. A lot of writing for me to mark, but really good fun. In turn, it shows them how physics and maths are used in real life situations.
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