Thurs., Jan. 20, 2011

Objectives:
Announcements:

Tues., Jan. 18, 2011

Objectives: Complete all work
Announcements: Check with me on
grades and assignments
All work must be completed by Thurs.
Finish Glass Lab
Turn them in
Hand-in "Shattered" reflection
Other missing assignments

Tues., Jan. 11, 2011

Objectives: Practice learned skills in
analyzing glass evidence
Announcements: No class this coming
Monday, Jan 17th
Lab Intro...
Begin analyzing glass evidence

Mon., Jan. 10, 2011

Objectives: Learn methods of analyzing glass evidence
Announcements: Finals start Jan. 26
No late work will be accepted after Mon., Jan 17
Our final:Period 5 - Wed., 1/26
Period 7 - Fri., 1/28
Last Weekly Reading (hurray!): Shattered
Glass Analysis
The Case...Theft at the Shaffer's!
Glass Evidence Analysis

Thurs., Jan. 6, 2011

Objectives: Complete Case Report
Finish everything and hand in at end of the period
Case Report Requrements

Tues., Jan. 4, 2011

Objectives: Complete Case Report
Announcements: Case Report Due next class
Type up your case report

Mon., Jan. 3, 2011

Welcome Back!
Objectives: Complete Case Report
Announcements: Case Report Due on Thurs., Jan. 6
Type up your case report

Thurs., Dec. 16, 2010

Merry Christmas!
Happy Hannuka
Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom
Gesëende Kersfees
Glædelig Jul
Feliz Navidad
Joyeux Noel
Ojenyunyat Sungwiyadeson honungradon nagwutut. Ojenyunyat osrasay
Froehliche Weihnachten
Happy Festivus for the restuvus

Tues., Dec. 14, 2010

Objectives: Complete Case Report
Announcements: Case Report Due on Thurs., Jan. 6
No Reflection this week
Scene will be cleaned up today after school
so...Take pictures
Make sure Rough sketches and measurements are done
Work on final sketch
Extra Credit if you use Visio for your final sketch
Write it up!

Mon., Dec. 13, 2010

Objectives: Complete Case Report
Announcements: Case Report Due on Thurs., Jan. 6
No Reflection this week
Scene will be cleaned up tomorrow after school
Make sure Rough sketches and measurements are done
Work on final sketch
Extra Credit if you use Visio for your final sketch
Write it up!

Mon., Dec. 13, 2010

Objectives: Complete Case Report
Announcements: Case Report Due on Thurs., Jan. 6
Reflection Due on Tues., Dec. 14, 2010
Final sketches & type it up

Thurs., Dec. 9, 2010

Objectives: Finish your rough sketches
Take measurement of the crime scene
Announcements: Scene will be cleaned up Tuesday
Using MS Visio w/crime scene template
Work on final sketches
Continue collecting evidence
Collect research
Start putting together your case report

Tues., Dec, 7, 2010

Objectives: Be able to draw a rough sketch of a
scene and apply measurements for the creation
of a final sketch
Announcements: Get your rough sketches done
Scene will cleaned up next Tuesday
Hand in reflection for Forensic Photography (notes)
New weekly reading: Crime Scene Sketching
Basic sketching
Measuring for scene sketches
Back to investigating the case

Mon., Dec. 6, 2010

Objectives: Understand how you finish Victoria's Demise
Announcement: "Reflection" due next class--
photography notes
What should be in your case report?

Thurs., Dec. 2, 2010

Objectives: Hone investigative skills--
How did Victoria die?
Announcements: Don't forget...your reflection will
take the form of taking notes on crime scene
phonography and digital photography
Continue Investigation of "Victoria's Demise"

Tues., Nov. 30, 2010

Objectives: Become acquainted with your
role as a cast member and as an investigator
New weekly reading: Crime scene photography
Cast Notes
Bring your cameras
Examination of the scene

Mon., Nov. 29, 2010

Welcome back!
Objectives: Beginning of our first major case!
Background Info
Cast and crew
Working groups

Thurs. & Fri., Nov. 24 & 25, 2010

Thanksgiving holiday - No school

Wed., Nov. 24, 2010

Furlough day - No school

Tues., Nov. 23, 2010

Conferences - No school

Mon., Nov. 22, 2010

Grading Day - No School

Thurs., Nov. 18, 2010

Check grades and assignments: Get all your
missing work done and turned in

Tues., Nov. 16, 2010

Finish movie: The Fugitive
Complete your reflection
Check grades and assignments: Get all your
missing work done and turned in

Mon., Nov. 15, 2010

Continue movie: The Fugitive

Thurs., Nov. 11, 2010

New weekly reading: Hunting the Fugitive
This week your reflection will be a comparative
essay between the true version of the story and
the hollywood fictionalized version of the story
Movie: The Fugitive

Tues., Nov. 9, 2010

NORMAL ODD DAY!
Objectives: Finish up and get your notebook evaluated
Announcements: No school on Thursday!
Finish all assignments and check notebooks
with me one-on-one

Thurs., Nov. 4, 2010

Objectives: Discover methods of analyzing ink samples
Chromatography
What it looks like
What you'll do


Govenor's Daughter Kidnapped!
Analysis of Ink on Ransom Demand

• requirements
• special instructions
• 
  

Quanitifying our results
Finish Analyzing someones handwriting

Tues., Nov. 2, 2010

Objectives: Learn what document examiners do
Hand in your reflection: Twin Fingerprints
New Reflection: New Fingerprint Technology
Take out a piece of paper...Preamble
Handwriting Analysis
Analyze a writing sample
Leave notebooks at end of period

Mon., Nov. 1, 2010

Objective: Demonstrate proficiency
in developing & lifting latent prints
Announcements: Notebooks on Thurs., 11/4
Finish answering your questions and complete the write up for
Developing & Lifting Latent Fingerprinting
Complete your reflection now
Weekly Reading: Why Identical Twins Have
Different Fingerprints Due: Tues., Nov. 2

Thurs., Oct. 28, 2010

Objective: Demonstrate proficiency
in developing & lifting latent prints
Announcements: Notebooks on Thurs., 11/4
Developing & Lifting Latent Fingerprinting
Weekly Reading: Why Identical Twins Have
Different Fingerprints Due: Tues., Nov. 2

Tues., Oct. 26, 2010

Objective: Demonstrate proficiency
in developing & lifting latent prints
Announcements: Notebooks on Thurs., 11/4
Developing & Lifting Latent Fingerprinting
New Weekly Reading: Why Identical Twins Have
Different Fingerprints

Mon., Oct. 25, 2010

Objective: Demonstrate proficiency
in developing & lifting latent prints

Developing & Lifting Latent Fingerprinting
Substitute assignment for Captain Relish Case

Thurs., Oct. 21, 2010

Fingerprint matching
Objective: Demonstrate proficiency in developing & lifting latent prints
Fingerprinting Demonstration


Developing & Lifting Latent Fingerprinting
Substitute assignment for Captain Relish Case

Tues., Oct. 19, 2010

Objectives: Show how fingerprint classifications can identify suspects
New weekly reading: Why twins don't have identical fingerpints
Fingerprint Reading Quiz
Eyewitness testimony: Video whodunit
Activity: Examine, Classify, Identify
Crime Scene prints

Suspect & Victim prints

Mon., Oct. 18, 2010

Objectives: Explain 5 different methods of developing prints
Hand prints on objects
Fingerprinting Reading and classifications
Reading quiz next class (Tues.)

Activity: Examine, Classify, Identify
Crime Scene prints
Suspect & Victim prints

Tues., Oct 12, 2010

Complete and hand in your projects

Mon., Oct. 11, 2010

Projects are due tomorrow
Get them done

Thurs., Oct. 7, 2010

Objectives: Finish project "Dead Men
Tell No Tales"
Hand in Reflection "The Case of the
Colorado Cannibal"
No Read & Reflect for next week
Make sure your notebook is in order
If I haven't graded yours during class,
leave your notebook for me to grade

Tues., Oct.5, 2010

Objectives: Understand requirements
& completing the project
Announcements: Notebooks Thurs.
with reflection
Project requirements & grading

Thurs., Sept. 30, 2010

Objectives: Gather more evidence in the Captain Relish case
Announcements: Hand in notebooks on Tuesday
Hand in reflection: "Down on the Body Farm"
New weekly reading: "Colorado Cannibal"
Goldrush & Packer

Colorado Cannibal Re-enactment

DNA profiling of subjects in this case: Activity

Tues., Sept. 28, 2010

Objectives: Background on our weekly reading
Review blood types & continue work on our case
Announcements: Notebooks will be collected soon,
Reflection due next class: "Down on the Body Farm"
Warning ***Graphic Content***
Body Farm Videos
Test question: Fred is blood type A and Wilma

is blood type O. What will be Pebbles' blood
type and will she be homozygous or heterozygous?
Show how you figured it out.
Continue: karyotypes, pedigrees & genetic disorder research

Mon., Sept. 27, 2010

Objectives: Understand Karyotyping as a tool for
identifying some genetic defects/anomalies
Down Syndrome


Remember Karyotypes?
Chromosome patterns
Creating karyotypes for this case

Thurs., Sept. 23, 2010

Objectives: Understand how blood typing is done
Understand the contents of blood and how the
types interact with each other
Continue work on projects
Reflection is due "The Wrong Knife"
New Reading: "Down on the Body Farm"
Starter: Blood Typing activity
Groups for work on "Dead Men Tell No Tales"
Begin/finish pedigrees
Continue Research on genetic disorders

Tues., Sept. 21, 2010

Announcement: Reflection due next class - Thurs.
Objectives: Learn how genetic diseases are passed in families
Dominant & Recessive Traits in Humans
Dominant Inheritance

Alleles, Punnett squares & eye color
A Case: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Senario & Family histories

Mon., Sept. 20, 2010

Objectives: Become an expert on a genetic disorder
Notice: Reflection Due next class (Thurs.)
Read Huntington's Background Info
See me........Huntington's "A Family history"
North: Continue research on genetic disease/disorder

Thurs., Sept. 2010

Objectives: Practice reading & creating pedigrees
Become an "expert" in a Genetic abnormality of your choice
Please hand in your reflection
New reading "The Wrong Knife"
"Redo" policy
Video: DNA Evidence
Reading a family pedigree
North: Draw your family pedigree
Read Huntington's Background Info
See me........Huntington's "A Family history"
South: Begin research on genetic disease/disorder

Tues., Sept. 14, 2010

Objectives: To understand how genes are linked to DNA
To learn to use a pedigree to track genetic diseases
To become an expert on a particular genetic disorder of your choice
What are genes?
Genetic & Chromosomal Disorders
Pedigrees and Pedigree symbols (copy)

Reading a family pedigree
South: Draw your family pedigree
Read Huntington's Background Info
See me........Huntington's "A Family history"
North: Begin research on genetic disease/disorder

Mon., Sept. 13, 2010

How to write a reflection
From DNA to Chromosomes
Karyotypes
How it's done...
Some genetic and chromosomal abnormalities
Genes are a chunk of a chromosome (or sometimes several)

Thurs., Sept. 9, 2010

Syllabus highlights & how this course works
What's DNA?

How is it useful in forensic applications?
The Molecular view
DNA profiling & band patterns
cleaned up for comparison
How is that done, exactly?
What physical characteristics can be determined from DNA?

Wed., Sept. 8, 2010

I am your teacher, Mr. Shaffer
Take a card, any card: What's the most amazing, cool,
unusual or best thing you've ever done? OR What's
something about you that you're proud of that most
people don't know?

What this class is about how it runs
Get a 3-ring binder for this class and a flash drive
Read the Syllabus for this course and get it into
your binder
Table of Contents (print for binder)
Print the Read & Reflect Expectations
First weekly reading: Stolen Camera - read and begin reflection
Witness testimony: Physical Characteristics
Due Thurs., Sept. 16