{"id":4886,"date":"2015-02-13T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=4886"},"modified":"2015-10-22T15:51:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T20:51:59","slug":"in-my-classroom-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kabt.org\/?p=4886","title":{"rendered":"In My Classroom – #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year I am actually not teaching a general biology course, so my classroom materials this year will be mainly focused on my Forensic Biotechnology course…<\/p>\n

Anyway, currently we are covering fingerprint individualization, so I have been using a cool activity to get students to analyze their own prints.<\/p>\n

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The kids blow a ballon up just enough to hold its shape and place a fingerprint on the minimally expanded rubber. When they blow up the ballon the rest of the way – PRESTO – enlarged fingerprint! At this point I have students mark the minutiae points that individualize their fingerprints. It is an easy and cool way to give students prints that are easy to analyze.<\/p>\n

I’ll send the challenge over to Camden Burton<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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This year I am actually not teaching a general biology course, so my classroom materials this year will be mainly focused on my Forensic Biotechnology course… Anyway, currently we are covering fingerprint individualization, so I have been using a cool activity to get students to analyze their own prints. The kids blow a ballon up
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