Page 4 - The Shoe Must Fit Footprint Analysys

Introduction to

The Shoe Must Fit

elcome to The Shoe Must Fit, a footprints shoe prints. After learning about wear patterns,
analysis lab in the Mystery of Lyle and class and individual characteristics, and other shoe
WLouise. A brutal murder case is unfolding print analysis techniques, students will examine the
in a small Appalachian town. Already the case shoe prints discovered at the crime scene.
spans two crime scenes and five people are dead.
When investigators discovered the second crime Students will then measure and analyze the
scene—a small cabin with two victims of a brutal evidence casting from the cabin, determine if the
double homicide—they discovered a partial bloody shoe prints from inside and outside of the cabin
shoe print in the kitchen. In their examination of the are consistent with the same shoe, and develop a
outside of the cabin, officers found tire tracks in the hypothesis about the identity of the criminal(s).
dried mud with a shoe print pressed into the nearby
dirt. Once the lab results have been analyzed, students
may conduct a mock trial to hold a suspect
In this lab, students will examine the relationship accountable for their actions.
between foot length and height and will utilize this
relationship to predict height based on foot length. Teacher’s notes can be found at the beginning of
Students will then take castings of their own shoes, the manual and copies may be freely made of all
examine them, and develop a method for analyzing materials for your students.

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