Forensics Unit & Daily Lesson Plan 4: Fingerprints (Differentiated/SIOP)

Make teaching Forensics easy with this fully editable combined unit and daily lesson plan that covers 7 blocks or 14 periods of a secondary forensic science course. SIOP, gifted, and differentiation strategies are embedded and easily identified throuought. Lessons are differnetiated accoding to learning style, grouping, and language ability. Both content and literacy standards as well as key vocabulary words, essential questions, activating strategies, instructional strategies, and summarizing strategies are included and highlighted. Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to recognize and classify the three general fingerprint ridge patterns and apply them to the primary Henry-FBI classification scheme; identify and compare friction ridge characteristics and compare two fingerprints with at least ten points of identification; properly collect and analyze fingerprints; develop latent prints using physical and chemical methods. Embedded literacy objectives allow students to discuss the steps in fingerprint identification; read documented case studies describing how fingerprint techniques impact prosecution efforts, and write, discuss, and use key vocabulary appropriately. Key vocabulary words learned in this unit include: fingerprint, dactyloscopy, anthropometry, loop, delta, whorl, arch, minutiae, plastic print, latent print, visible print, ninhydrin, bifurcations. This resource will save you hours of planning time. Simply add your class title and upload or print for your own lesson plans.