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Students make their own fingerprints and use them in cooperative groups to talk about individuality. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 6th
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Students explore the uniqueness of fingerprints. They discover the basic types of fingerprints, how to identify and lift fingerprints and consider the importance of fingerprints in crime investigations. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 4th
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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. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students observe differences and similarities in fingerprints, and develop system to classify prints into similar groups. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students create a mock DNA Fingerprint using Photoshop. They analyze their fingerprint DNA and classmates fingerprint DNA to solve the class mystery using their new knowledge of tools in Photoshop. Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students identify one's own individual talents, interests, and hobbies, as well as the talents and interests of others. They are told that they are going to create a book about their hobbies, interest, and talents. Students use the inkpad to put their fingerprint on the cover page. They are told thta no two people have the same fingerprint. Students are encouraged to decorate the cover page to reflect their own personality, using their fingerprint as the basis for the design. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students 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 fingerprpints. Full Review »
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- 10th - 12th
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Students examine the principles of electrophoresis. They evaluate both the agarose and polyacrylamide system of molecular separation. In order to bring the concepts of genetics and evolution full circle from DNA to protein, students conduct a "DNA Fingerprinting" and "Genetic Distance" laboratory. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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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 compare the fingerprinting process to DNA fingerprinting. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 3rd
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Students create a fingerprint card of each of their fingers using a pencil, special paper and tape. A comparison is made with their fingerprints to that of their classmates. They have to analyze how the prints are similar and different. Full Review »
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