Who needs CSI to solve things when we’re here? (From Worcester News)

Who needs CSI to solve things when we’re here?

10:23am Wednesday 14th April 2010 in

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PUPILS at a school in Worcester had their usual lessons interrupted as they had to solve a ‘murder’.

To celebrate National Science and Engineering Week many lessons at the Blessed Edward Oldcorne Catholic College in Timberdine Avenue were spent looking at science in different ways.

Year seven pupils had to look at fabric samples under the microscope to see if they matched fibres left at the scene of the ‘crime’, took plaster casts of footprints that were left in the nearby flowerbed, and even took fingerprints of members of staff.

They also needed to separate out the colours in the ink sample left at the scene of the ‘murder’ by a process called chromatography.

Other pupils also used energy from the sun to power helicopters that moved around the school and some also dug up the school grounds to count earthworms as part of a national survey of soils.

Becky Hodson, area leader of science at the school, said the week was a way to inspire pupils.

“We showed them how science is involved in some of the most exciting things we do,” she said.

PICTURE CAPTION: BODY OF EVIDENCE: From left, Adam O’Neill, aged 15, Tom Allcut and Craig Gavin, both 16, with Pollyann Poyner, 15, as the ‘murder victim’. Picture by Nick Toogood. BUY THIS PHOTO: worcesternews.co.uk/pictures/sales. 11449601.