Description

Provide engaging instruction and reinforce Forensic Science skills with this FINGERPRINTING SCAVENGER HUNT. Keep the activity in your classroom or make it a school-wide search! Either way, this scavenger hunt is sure to engage and motivate ALL of your students.

This Forensics activity is ready to use- just print, fold, and hang! I like to post the clues around my classroom and in the hallway but have also made this a school-wide activity for more of a challenge. Laminate and use them for years to come. My students love to participate in this scavenger hunt as a review before the test! The competition/race proves to be a sure way to engage my students.

What’s Included:

⭐ 17 Print & Go Clues

⭐Student Answer Document

⭐Teacher Answer Key

⭐Teacher Instructions/Set-Up

Skills covered in this activity include:

⭐ Fingerprint patterns (loops, whorls, arches)

⭐Basic Minutiae Patterns (core, delta, ridge count)

⭐AFIS database

⭐Role of a Fingerprint Examiner

⭐Crime Scene Prints (latent, patent/true, impression/plastic)

⭐Methods of Making Prints Visible

⭐Basic definitions

You might also like these other Force and Motion resources:

• Forensic Entomology Station Activity (Differentiated)

• Forensic Science: Investigative Processes Classroom Escape Activity

• Forensics Case Study Project: Making a Murderer (Steven Avery)

• Forensics Lab Activity: Chain of Custody and Evidence Collection

• Forensics: Innocence Project Research Activity

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