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Classroom Identity
Students explore fingerprints. In this finger prints lesson, students investigate how to classify fingerprints. Students study large pictures of fingerprints and circle the patterns they know how to identify. Students then take their own...
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Fabulous Forensic Fingerprints
Students observe their fingerprints and notice how all human bodies are different. For this fingerprints lesson plan, students see the loops, whorls, and arches that make everyone's fingerprints different, and make a class graph for...
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Fingered Felons
Students examine fingerprints. In this biology lesson, students use sticky tape to create their own set of prints and identify patterns on each of their fingers. Students try to solve a "classroom crime" based on the patterns of a...
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Investigating Fingerprints
Students study the individuality of fingerprints. In this fingerprint lesson, students determine that each person has a unique set of fingerprints. They rub their fingertips with soft pencil lead and rub the print off on a piece of tape....
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Give Me a Hand, I'm "Thumb-body" Special
Pupils label the bones in the hand, create a model of the hand, compile a set of fingerprints, and explore the importance of the thumb. In this anatomy of the hand lesson plan, students participate in six hands-on activities to increase...
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Classification
In this classification worksheet, students observe the fingerprints provided. Students decide upon a classification system to use to categorize the given fingerprints.
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Gen Up on Genetics!
In this gen up on genetics worksheet, students, with a partner, explore, examine, discuss and complete a variety of activities associated with genetics, DNA and cloning.
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Super Glue Fuming of Latent Fingerprints
Students explore latent fingerprinting. They observe a supervised demonstration of the process that real-life crime scene investigators sometimes use to identify latent fingerprints. In addition, they brainstorm ways to improve the...
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Forensic Detectives: Who Did It?
Young scholars explore forensic science and its uses in criminal investigations. They solve a fictional crime by identifying and analyzing the fingerprints, strand of hair, and thread samples for evidence. After completing charts for...
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Macro-DNA: Doing DNA Fingerprinting and Gel Electrophoresis
Students create numbered DNA sequences by taping together the order of the sequence. They count the number of bases in their RFLP's and shade the boxes on their Gel Electrophoresis sheets that represent individual fragments. They...
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Fingerprinting
Students discover the basics of fingerprinting and how it identifies a person. They create their own fingerprints and compare them to classmate's to determine that no two people have the same identity because of fingerprints. Then they...
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DNA Fingerprinting: You Be the Judge!
High schoolers explore DNA fingerprinting. Students discover how DNA fingerprinting is done and judge the validity. They evaluate the use of certain prints in courts and address the ethics of establishing a national database of...
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"Who Done It?" Analysis of Molecular Fingerprints Left At the Scene of the Crime
Students examine different types of DNA fragments. They record and analyze their results. They determine who is the criminal in the story.
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Whodunit?
Students observe the geometric patterns on fingerprints. They classify fingerprints into groups and obtain prints from surfaces.
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Investigating Fingerprints
Young scholars observe that each individual possesses a unique set of fingerprints. The Magic School Bus series of books, "Inside the Human Body," is used in conjunction with this lesson.
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Uniqueness in All
Students share verbally at least one thing that makes them unique, observe, compare and record their fingerprints, classify which of the basic fingerprints resemble their own and share their findings.
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DNA Fingerprinting with Restriction Enzymes
Students will illustrate how restriction enzymes work by piecing together parts of a puzzle. Then they apply this knowledge to help them analyze genetic evidence from the scene of a crime as well as to help them comprehend how a DNA...
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Lifting Fingerprints
Students examine the uniqueness of each other's fingerprints through the dusting and lifting of them. They use stamp pads, powder, brushes, etc. to collect as many different prints as they can.
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Fbi Youth: Grades 6th 12th
Explore the FBI by joining agents as they investigate crimes around the world, following a case through the FBI Lab, look at a day in the life of an FBI agent, and more!
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Biometrics Research
This is a site on the use of biometrics in personal identification. Includes a summary of some of the many types of biometric methods under development.
PBS
Nova Teachers: Hunt for the Serial Arsonist: Classroom Activity
In this activity they can begin to see how forensic scientists use fingerprints for identification. Students will identify particularly noticeable features in fingerprints and compare students' fingerprints.
New York Times
New York Times: Biometrics to Track Who Crosses Borders
Discusses the challenges the U.S. government faces in using biometric data, such as scanned fingerprints and facial features, to track foreign visitors in an effort to control illegal immigration and terrorist activity. Click on link for...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Patterns and Fingerprints
Students apply several methods developed to identify and interpret patterns to the identification of fingerprints. They look at their classmates' fingerprints, snowflakes, and "spectral fingerprints" of elements. They learn to identify...
Read Works
Read Works: Finger Food
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is sharing information about the implementation of finger scanning technology in a school cafeteria. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills...