Monday, February 7, 2011

Sticky Fingers Year 9


Your task is to research
1. The history of fingerprinting using the internet.
Find out how the technique has changed over the years and the most current methods used.

2. The different types if fingerprints and explain how a fingerprint can be classified and matched to an individual. Include any environmental effects that may add to the uniqueness of an individual's fingerprints.

How to get the marks….

Level 5• Describe why a fingerprint is left behind and why powder and tape can be used to pick it up again
• Described how advance in fingerprinting and the way in which fingerprints are stored have led to people being identified more quickly more quickly and easily
• Describe how some people think it may be against their human rights to be asked to give fingerprint samples
• Presented my data as photographs and a table explaining some of the patterns seen in fingerprints
• Used scientific and mathematical words when describing how sweat in fingerprints can be detected eg. ninhydrin reaction

Level 6
• Described how different people have used fingerprinting over the years
• Explained how the development of fingerprinting techniques has affected different groups of people eg. Police, criminals
• Explained that fingerprinting evidence can only be used to establish a connection between an object or place and a person, and needs other evidence that someone has committed a crime
• Described the technological advances and changes in fingerprinting techniques

Level 7
• Describe the advantages and disadvantages of using fingerprinting to identify individuals, including expense, accuracy and the effects on people's lives
• Used symbols, flow charts and different kinds of graphs to represent ideas
• Explained how people have thought creatively to come up with new ideas to identify people eg. toe prints, sweat samples, facial recognition software
• Explain in detail why everyone has an individual fingerprint
• Describe whether you feel that fingerprinting has had good or bad effects on society and why you have that opinion

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