Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Happy Festivus

Today's Goal: To finish a webquest on Fingerprints.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What are your plans for the break?
- Finish webquest from yesterday.

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

National Date Nut Bread Day


Today's Goal: To begin a search of fingerprint trivia.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What are the newest methods being developed to identify people?
- Laptops: Fingerprint Webquest


Monday, December 21, 2015

National Flashlight Day

Today's Goal:To finish watching an episode.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: Which fingerprint pattern (loop, whorl or arch) does not have an delta?
- Lie to Me

Friday, December 18, 2015

Bake Cookies Day

Today's Goal: To analyze fingerprints for minutia.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: How would one calculate a ridge count?
- Act 6-5
- Finish Lie to Me

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

National Chocolate Covered Anything Day

Today's Goal: To practice making and lifting prints.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: Describe how fingerprints of someone not involved in a crime could be found at a crime scene?
- Activity 6-3 Latent Prints
- Activity 6-4 Ten Card

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

HP Fill the Bus

Today's Goal: To finish any late work.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: How many individual ridge characteristics are on the average fingerprint?
- Any late work
- Lie to Me

Monday, December 14, 2015

Roasted Chestnuts Day

Today's Goal: To use an online activity to match fingerprints.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: IN FULL SENTENCES: What type of fingerprint would be left on a wall after touching blood?
- Get laptops: search for pbs.org whodunit
- complete activity

Friday, December 11, 2015

Poinsettia Day

Today's Goal: To play with coding.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the computer program for fingerprints?
- Hour of Code: https://hourofcode.com/us

  • https://www.tynker.com/hour-of-code/
  • https://code.org/learn
  • http://codecombat.com/hoc
  • https://scratch.mit.edu/hoc/

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Human Rights Day

"Our Rights. Our Freedoms. Always"

Today's Goal: To start learning how to analyze fingerprints.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What are the three main types of fingerprint patterns?
- Act 6-1 and 6-2
- Let's look at some fibers

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

National Pastry Day

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Today's Goal: To do some preparation for a chapter on fingerprints.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: When do fingerprints start forming.
- Ch 6 vocab and case studies

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

National Brownie Day

Today's Goal: To discuss fingerprints.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What do you know about fingerprints?
- Finish Lie to Me
- Fingerprint notes

Monday, December 7, 2015

National Cotton Candy Day

Today's Goal: To share presentations.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What percentage of fibers are lost in the first 24 hours?
- Share presentations
- Lie to Me

Friday, December 4, 2015

Wear Brown Shoes Day

Today's Goal: To take a quiz on hair and fibers.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the official term for the root of a hair?
- Quiz
- Lie to Me

Thursday, December 3, 2015

Bingo Month


Today's Goal: To finish a review

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is a textile?
- Science article of the day: E-Cigs are Bad
- Finish the review sheet
- Backpack Mystery

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

National Fritters Day

Today's Goal: To review ch 3 & 4

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What type of fibers are in your clothes today?
- Science article of the day: Dengue Fever
- Ch 3/4 review; quiz on Friday
- The Backpack mystery
- Sharing Fiber presentation tomorrow

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Eat a Red Apple Day

Today's Goal: To finish a presentation on a fiber.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What are two types of weaves found in textiles?
- Laptops - finish presentation on Google Classroom

Monday, November 30, 2015

National Novel Writing Month

Today's Goal: To begin reviewing hair and fibers.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: Which are stronger: synthetic fibers or natural fibers?
- Ch 4 Review Sheet
- Start Fibers Presentation on Google Classroom
- Quiz Friday

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

National Parfait Day

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Today's goal: To continue lie to me

Agenda:
- Daily journal: What is the term for when fibers from a third source are transferred to the victim?
- Lie to me

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Evolution Day

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Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species" 1859
Lucy - Australopithecus was discovered today in 1974

Today's goal: To finish an activity.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the term for fibers that have been spun together?
- Finish Act 4-1
- Lie to Me

Monday, November 23, 2015

Today's Goal: To start a lab on fibers.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is one man-made fiber?
- Act 4-1

Friday, November 20, 2015

Universal Children's Day

Today's Goal: To finish reviewing hair.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What type of hair cuticle do humans have?
- Finish/go over Ch 3 review
- CSI

Thursday, November 19, 2015

The Great American Smokeout

Today's Goal: To look at animal hair

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is one way to tell the difference between animal and human hair?
- WS Animal Hair under microscope
- WS Ch 3 Review Sheet

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

National Model Railroad Month


Today's Goal: To discuss fibers.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What are three fibers that you have heard of... think of what your clothes are made of?
- Ch 4 notes

National Model Railroad Month


Today's Goal: To discuss fibers.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What are three fibers that you have heard of... think of what your clothes are made of?
- Ch 4 notes

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Take a Hike Day

Today's Goal: To finish hair and start fibers.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is a function of hair?
- Finish 3-1 and hand in
- Ch 4 vocab and case studies

Monday, November 16, 2015

Button Day

Today's Goal: To use microscopes to match hair.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the pigment in hair called?
- Finish Act 3-1

Friday, November 13, 2015

World Kindness Day

Today's Goal: To work on microscopes.

Agenda:
- Daily journal: What is the center of hair called?
- Finish Activity 3-1

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Oh Internet Firewall

Today's Goal: To look at slides of hair.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: what is the outer layer of hair called?
- Reminder of how to use microscopes
- Act 3-1 using microscopes

Monday, November 9, 2015

Aviation History Month


Today's Goal: To begin looking into the topic of hair.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: 
- WS Ch 3 vocab
- WS Ch 3 Case Studies
- Finish CSI

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

King Tut Day

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Today's Goal: To complete Marking Period Assessment.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is a cooling off period?
- Assessment
- CSI

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

US General Election Day

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Today's Goal: To do marking period assessment.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the term for a murderer that kills 4 or more people at one time?
- Marking Period Assessment

Monday, November 2, 2015

Deviled Egg Day

Today's Goal: To watch an episode about microexpressions.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is the term for something unusual or specific left at the crime scene by the perpetrator?
- Lie to Me

Friday, October 30, 2015

National Candy Corn Day

Today's Goal: To find out who controlled the headless horseman.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: Who controls the headless horseman.
- Sleepy Hollow
- Presentations...

Thursday, October 29, 2015

National Frankenstein Day

Today's Goal: to discover more about the headless horseman.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: How does the horseman kill his victims?
- Sleepy Hollow

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Today's Goal: To view a fictional film on an early forensic scientist.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What has been your favorite Halloween costume that you have worn?
- Sleepy Hollow

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Navy Day

Today's Goal: To begin an online search.

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is victimology?
- Online Search - Sleepy Hollow
- Any presentations ready to share

Monday, October 26, 2015

International Drum Month

Today's Goal: To see where we are...

Agenda:
- Daily Journal: What is your favorite crime related movie or show?
- How are the presentations?
- Lie to Me - finish episode 4
- Share any presentations