For their final projects in January, the LHS Forensics class created dioramas based on real murder stories.
Their teacher, Amy Augenstein, said she has been teaching this particular class for 12 years, and her students have done this project for the last three years. She created the class based on a course that she took in college.
Students who got 100% on their dioramas got a chance to have their dioramas displayed in the LHS library and shared their creations with others. The amount of time taken for this project varied from person to person, depending on their story, Augenstein said.
“Some students had actual crime scene pictures, and other students had to go off of reading the book and those descriptions,” Augenstein stated.
Sophia Sharp, a junior, based her diorama on the book The Crime of the Centuries. She included the layout of the house where the crime scene occurred, along with the bodies of the people involved, and traces of the evidence in her diorama.
Sharp shared what she enjoyed most about the project.
“My favorite part about this was probably actually reading the book and figuring out how he broke in,” Sharp said. “I thought it was really interesting.”
Many other dioramas were based on crimes such as murder.
“Mine was the Mary Jane Kelly murder scene. It’s Jack the Ripper’s final and most gruesome murder,” said Addison Bartlett, a junior. “I got very creative with the hot glue and the painting.”
