Forensic Science Day

 On the 11th of January 2011, my group and I took part in a forensic learning day; where we all were taught numerous forensic skills; that could help determine factors such as sex, age and nationality of someone just by their skeleton. 

For example, a males eye socket are usually square like, where a females are more rounded; however when people say 'you have your fathers eyes' this can be true as a female skull that we examined, had square eye sockets. 

Also male skulls are normally quite bigger than the female skulls, however this doesn't mean that men are smarter than women!

We were also taught how to rebuild a skeleton, the names of most bones in our skeletal structure and how to gather evidence from a crime scene.

All the skeletons that we examined were REAL! I took some pictures, however the person that took us for the day, said that it would be dishonourable to them if we posted them publicly.

Also, we did finger print matching, were you look at patterns in a finger print and link them up to other patterns in a different print to see if they match.

After the finger print matching, we were taught how to figure out someone's blood type, we were given real blood donated by the NHS to test on; we put different chemicals into a tray with some blood, and depending on how the blood reacted with the chemical determined what blood type it was.