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Crime Scene Investigator: Evidence Collection Guidelines

For Students 9th - 10th
A list of specific types of evidence that could be collected from a crime scene. Links to methods for collecting the following kinds of evidence: blood stains, seminal stains, hair, fibers and threads, glass, paint, flammable liquids,...
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John Wiley & Sons

Concepts in Biochemistry: Structure Tutorials

For Students 9th - 10th
Learners explore the Biochemistry topic of deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA). Topics examined are DNA replication, cloning, and fingerprinting. The resource consists of articles and animations and culminating questions.
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Seeker

Seeker: Week of 3 10 14: Fingerprinting Clouds

For Students 9th - 10th
Scientist have recently discovered that clouds possess far more unique traits than just their shapes. Read about the scientific discovery that at least some clouds contain biological particles that can be analyzed to show where the cloud...
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Find Biometrics, Global Identity Management

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is geared more toward a consumer than a student, but it does list, describe, and in some cases compare each of the primary identification methods (fingerprints, iris recognition, voice, etc).
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Dna Interactive: Applications

For Students 9th - 10th
Examples of using DNA for forensic purposes is discussed here, as well as uses to unravel historical puzzles, trace the history of a species and answer health problems.
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National Health Museum

Access Excellence: Use of Dna in Identification

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from Access Excellence, you can read a transcript from a lecture at the University of California, San Francisco by a biology professor discussing the use of DNA in criminal identification.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Dna Forensics

For Students 9th - 10th
A concise explanation of the use of DNA technologies in forensic identification from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Additional valuable resources are provided.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Stellar Fingerprints: The Spectra of Stars

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Identify the composition of stars by applying the ideas of quantum theory. Investigate the field of spectroscopy, and examine the spectra of stars to locate the emission and absorption lines of hydrogen.
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Ibm: Biometrics

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from IBM provides a simple introduction to the field of biometrics and includes descriptions with examples for several personal identification and recognition systems (e.g., fingerprints, hand geometry).
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Dna Build

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students reinforce their knowledge that DNA is the genetic material for all living things by modeling it using toothpicks and gumdrops that represent the four biochemicals (adenine, thiamine, guanine, and cytosine) that pair with each...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Auschwitz Album

For Students 9th - 10th
An online exhibit of surviving visual evidence of what occurred at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Photos were taken by two SS men whose task was to take ID photos and fingerprints of the inmates.
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The Franklin Institute

Inquiry Almanack: Bio Point

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover from a student's point of view what a "DNA fingerprint," is and how it is extracted.
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Curated OER

Ny 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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Curated OER

Ny 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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Language Guide

Language Guide: Los Trabajos

For Students 9th - 10th
These interactive pictures focus on the vocabulary for common jobs. Pop-ups of the correct spelling appear, along with the audio of the correct Spanish pronunciation when the mouse is moved over each illustration.
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Rice University

Rice University: Web Adventures: Csi: The Experience

For Students 9th - 10th
Based on the CSI television show, this series of four role-playing games helps students learn the scientific method and try their hand at solving crimes. Discover if you have what it takes to be a forensic scientist.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Who Robbed the Bank?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students use DNA profiling to determine who robbed a bank. After they learn how the FBI's Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) is used to match crime scene DNA with tissue sample DNA, students use CODIS principles and sample DNA fragments...
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Web Elements

Web Elements Periodic Table: Osmium

For Students 9th - 10th
This WebElements site offers lots of fundamental information on osmium, Bohr diagrams and details on its purification.
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Corrosion Source

Corrosion Source: Osmium

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents basic data, along with good information on the history, sources, properties and uses of osmium.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Mapping Fireprints

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this diverse lesson has students perform linear regression analysis (to compare two fire variables), check three-dimensional points using a planar equation, and evaluate points to determine...
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Crime Scene Investigator: Searching and Examining a Major Case Crime Scene

For Students 9th - 10th
An engrossing explanation of the appropriate behavior needed at a major crime scene. What should be done with the body? How is photography handled? What about fingerprinting? How are curious onlookers dealt with? The answers to the...
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OceanView Publishing

Alcatraz History: George "Machine Gun" Kelly

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical information about the infamous gangster, George "Machine Gun" Kelly. Includes photographs and images of an original fingerprint card and prison transfer paper.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Biometrics: New Ids That Are Uniquely You by by Sharon Oosthoek

For Students 7th - 8th
Police and law enforcement have historically used fingerprints to identify suspects and prosecute criminals. But now, using new technology and the science of biometrics, scientists have developed a different, and potentially more...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Taxonomy: The Importance of Classifying

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a technology-based, hands-on Biology lesson used to introduce the topic of Taxonomy and the importance of classifying. Learners will listen to a podcast about classifying every living thing on Earth. Students will then give some...

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