Want to Test Your Fingerprint Knowledge?

I really enjoyed teaching the fingerprint unit in Forensics Class recently.   

There were many hands on things we were able to do, including one that I had always wondered about, how to 'dust' for a hidden fingerprint around a smooth surface like a doorknob or cookie jar. [That one it turns out is super easy to do at home and anyone with a child and time to spend should show the child how to do that because it's very satisfying.  The only trick is you need a make up brush, borrowed from the lady of the house. Search on You Tube for any of their examples of how to do the dusting.]

(Thanks to Juan in my first period class for the fingerprint image at right, obtained by rubbing his finger with a pencil and then touching that to Scotch Tape.)

I invite you to try out below one of the questions I wrote for their exam.  I was worried whether I had worded it clear and unambiguously {always tough when addressing to a mixed group of teens} but there were zero issues with wording.  I will put the answers down in a post below this one. . .

 

Question #19.  

In each blank write  looks the SAME  or looks  DIFFERENT 

1. _____Your left thumb 1 day before you were born and your left thumb now.
2. _____Your left thumb, your mother’s left thumb
3. _____the print you leave on a door knob and the print that is on your finger
4. _____your left thumb and your right thumb
5. _____the left thumb of a twin and the left thumb of the other twin
6. _____the right thumb of Barack Obama when he was 2 years old and  the right thumb when he was 40 years old
7. _____Your left middle finger when you were a  20 week old fetus and when you were a 1 week old fetus [fetus is you before you were born]

 

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