A visit from Constable Duncan...

Today Constable Duncan came to chat to us about his role in a Crime Scene. Tomorrow we'll add some of our new learning we gained from Constable Duncan!

 

Everywhere we leave our mark - We left our mark on you!

One of our Deep Understandings for our Forensics inquiry is "Everywhere we go we leave our mark". We wanted to hook the children of Tapatoru Team in with a little lesson showcasing this understanding...

 We presented the kids with an amazing ball that sends out electric currents and is attracted to your hand when you touch it. We told the kids they had to figure out how it worked and that it would be on show at lunchtime. Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES were they to touch it!

However, this was too tempting! And this is exactly what we had planned... This ball was left unsupervised at lunchtime but was secretly covered in glowstick. After lunch children were pulled away to the staffroom toilets in small groups.

Children were then pulled in and in a blacked out space were put under black light! We could tell pretty quickly who had touched the ball and who had not!

Here are some of criminals (with their hands up) later admitting to the crime - after we'd caught them red handed! Or purple handed as the case may be! 

What a great lesson on leaving your mark behind!

Note taking - detective styles...

Our CSI Notebooks

Recording Clues

Recording suspects

We watched the dragonfly clip today to practice note taking as detectives. We had to use lots of details and ONLY record relevant suspects and facts. 

Sorry some of these pics are on the side - still learning how to rotate them!

Great detective work V3!!

Crime Scenes

Today we are practicing how to take notes when coming across a crime scene! Before we come across our own crime scenes... We are going to use this youtube clip to practice being a real detective!

Fingerprinting

This week we are learning about fingerprinting! We have learnt that there are different types of fingerprints like the loop, whorl, tented arch and arch. 

The loop is the most common fingerprint. When forensic scientists try to uncover fingerprints they dust the area, the dust sticks to the fingerprint and shows what is left behind. 

We learnt that some people used to use skin grafts to hide their fingerprints! We will post more of our learning as we uncover new facts... Watch this space!

No two fingerprints are the same! We are all unique!!

Children showcasing understanding through movies

It is so great to see Huia, Jaymie and Ryan create Imovies and Animotos showcasing what they have found out about blood! Check them out. Above is Huia's Imovie and below are the links to Jaymie and Ryan's animotos! Very cool!!

Jaymie: Jaymie's Blood movie

Ryan: Ryan's blood movie