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Fire Forensics: Student Guide

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Student Pathway Guide: The Science of Fire Forensics (pdf, 736 KB)

This student guide includes tables, questions, and opportunities for sensemaking that correspond with content in the Science of Fire Forensics pathway. This guide can be completed digitally or printed.

Context

In the Investigators Academy you will learn about the science of fire, and the evidence fire may leave behind. You will use this information to make an evidence-based claim that is justified with scientific facts (or reasoning).

Use this guide to organize the information in the pathway, so you can make a better claim that is supported by evidence and scientific reasoning.

 

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