Introduction

Try to think of all of the items you touch in one day.

From the moment you wake up and get ready for school to the time you set your alarm clock at bedtime, you touch hundreds to thousands of surfaces. On the surfaces you touch, you most likely left behind a part of you — your unique fingerprint.

In this lesson, you will learn more about how unique fingerprints are, how to collect fingerprints from a crime scene, and how to classify the pattern of fingerprints.

 

Lesson Objectives

Following successful completion of this lesson, students will be able to...

  • Explain fingerprinting methods and identification techniques.

Enduring Understandings

  • Fingerprint evidence can be analyzed, classified set patterns of ridge characteristics, and used to identify an individual.
  • Scientific inquiry utilizes the scientific method and inductive reasoning.

The above objectives correspond with the Alabama Course of Study: Forensic and Criminal Investigations standards: 6.2 and 12

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