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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: What Makes a Dna Fingerprint Unique?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Do you like solving mysteries? In this experiment, you can find out how a DNA fingerprint can help you figure out whodunit. The answer might just be in the "sequence" of events.
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National Health Museum

Access Excellence: Dna Fingerprinting in Human Health

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, which is provided for by Access Excellence, gives a detailed article outlining DNA fingerprinting, how it is used, and how it works.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Patterns and Fingerprints

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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...
Handout
BiologyWise

Biology Wise: History of Dna Fingerprinting

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses the scientists who made discoveries about DNA and those who invented and worked on DNA fingerprinting, and some of the criminal cases that were resolved or thrown out through the use of DNA evidence. (Warning: Some of these...
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Museum of Science

Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Identify Your Fingerprints

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Become a forensic investigator, and follow these simple step-by-step instructions to take, examine, and identify your fingerprints.
Handout
BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Dna Fingerprinting in Plants

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief descriptions of four complex methods of DNA profiling in plants. Some advantages of DNA fingerprinting are also listed.
Handout
BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Step by Step Explanation of Dna Fingerprinting Process

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains with the help of a flowchart the steps in creating a DNA fingerprint and a few techniques that have been developed to improve accuracy and efficiency.
Article
Other

Science Articles:how Does Dna Fingerprinting Work?

For Students 9th - 10th
DNA fingerprinting is a term that has been bandied about in the popular media for many years, largely due to its power to condemn and save, but what does it involve?
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Cyberbee

Fingerprinting

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn everything you ever wanted to know about fingerprinting! Provides links to a brief history of fingerprinting, FBI Kids site, a lesson in classification, fingerprinting identification and a game.
Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: Poetry 180: Bringing My Son to the Police Station to Be Fingerprinted

For Students 9th - 10th
This poem tells the narrative of a son being taken to the police station to be fingerprinted.
Lesson Plan
Michigan Reach Out

Fingerprinting: A Lesson on Classification

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Who done it? Basic lesson plan to classify fingerprints. Students can classify their own and classmates fingerprints by taking prints and comparing them to the handout provided.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Fingerprints

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart, students identify fingerprints. They will look at contrasts in different prints and make generalizations.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Restriction Enzymes and Dna Fingerprinting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The discovery of restriction enzymes and their applications in DNA analysis has proven to be essential for biologists and chemists. This instructional activity focuses on restriction enzymes and their applications to DNA analysis and DNA...
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Children's Discovery Museum

Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose: Fingerprint Art Bookmark

For Students K - 1st
In this activity, you will make some fingerprint art into a bookmark, whether it's for yourself or a unique gift for a special person in your life!
Article
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Fingerprints of Twins

For Students 9th - 10th
If you had an identical twin would you have the same set of fingerprints? Site uncovers the answer by researching the science behind fingerprints.
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Other

Early Fingerprinting Pioneers

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource takes a look at some of the early fingerprinting pioneers such as Marcello Malpighi, William Herschel, Alphonse Bertillon and many more.
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Biology Corner

Biology Corner: Fingerprint Classification

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson where students practice classification by putting fingerprints into groups.
Website
PBS

Nova Teachers: Hunt for the Serial Arsonist: Classroom Activity

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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.
Article
New York Times

New York Times: Biometrics to Track Who Crosses Borders

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Making "Fingerprints"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students simulate a forest fire based on probability of the fire spreading. Different probabilities will yield different results, and as such all students should attain...
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Cyberbee

Cyberbee: Who Dunnit?

For Students 3rd - 8th
If you are a crime scene investigation (CSI) fan, then you will love this site! You get to be the detective by examining the evidence, viewing the crime scene, dusting for fingerprints, interviewing the suspects, and solving the crime.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Dna Forensics and Color Pigments

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students perform DNA forensics using food coloring to enhance their understanding of DNA fingerprinting, restriction enzymes, genotyping and DNA gel electrophoresis. They place small drops of different food coloring ("water-based paint")...
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Uses of Dna Fingerprinting

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains what DNA profiling is and describes some of the many ways it is used.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Lost Tribes of Israel, Dna

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate how fingerprinting works, determine what sorts of evidence and questions are important in deciding a court case and understand the issues involved with using DNA evidence in a courtroom trial.

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