Criminal Profiling Activity/Lab

An activity or lab designed to get students working in small groups to analyze the contents of a gym bag and purse, use their observation skills and create inferences about the person's personality etc. In the lab - I created a purse and a gym bag filled with items to create a certain persona (the purse was messy and contained things that would represent a woman, cares about their appearance, has money, travels, smokes, etc) (the gym bag was neat, organized in baggies, folded, business-like, focused on self care and improvement). You can make the contents reflect whatever and allow the students to work through the items and get into the mind of a criminal profiler