UNIT OBJECTIVES

Students should be able to:

  • Name the layers of skin and their accessory organs.
  • Identify the classes of fingerprints.
  • Determine the primary identification number of someone’s fingerprints.
  • Describe several methods for lifting prints.
  • Lift fingerprints using various methods
  • Produce and identify various types of shoe, tire, palm, lip, and bite prints.
  • Describe how and why eye prints may be a useful identification tool.
  • Photograph prints and produce a print portfolio.
ASSIGNMENTS
SPECIFICS
Criminalistics by Saferstein

Chapter 14---pages 406-431

Chapter 15--pages 454-463
Crime Scene by Ragle

Chapter 3--pages 89-130
Class Notes PowerPoint--You will need a password. Click here; enter the password; and view the presentation
Activities

Print Outline
What Made the Print?
Labs

Making Fingerprints
Lifting Fingerprints
Other Types of Prints
Quizzes

Making Prints
Lifting Prints
Technology

Malcolm X Fingerprints

Nixon Fingerprints

Crime Library
Projects Print Portfolio
Articles History of Fingerprints
Fingerprint Analysis
The Disappearing Fingerprints
Lifting Fingerprints
Cyanoacrylate Fuming Method
Shoe, Foot and Tire Evidence
Other

Video

  • Death Grip
  • Lasting Impressions
  • Infallible Witness

Logic Problem
Crossword Review
Anatomy Independent Study Skin Diagram
Teeth Names
Review

Criminalistics: An Introduction to Forensic Science
Do Chapter 14 and 15

See Teacher Review Sheet
Assessments

Performance Assessments--Print Portfolio

Teaching in the Elementary Classroom

Written Knowledge and Analysis Test

Loop
Arch
Whorl

THUMBPRINT

In the heel of my thumb are whorls, whirls, wheels
in a uniqe design:
mine alone.
What a treasure to own!

My own flesh, my own feelings.
Not other, however grand or base,
can ever contain the same.

My signature,
thumbing the pages of my time.
My universe key,
my singularity.
Impress, implant,
I am myself,
of all my atorn parts I am the sum.

And out of my blood and my brain
I make my own interior weather,
my own sun and rain.

Imprint my mark upon the world,
whatever I shall become.

---Eve Merriam

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