Monday, October 31, 2011

Finishing with Chromatography and Moving into Hair, Fibers, & Paint

We've officially ended our mini unit on chromatography. Your case reports on the "Sealed with a Kiss" letter are due by the end of the school day on Tuesday Nov. 1. Make sure to include the data from the chromatogaphs you ran, an analysis that includes which suspect you believe is guilty, and a conclusion that shows the limitations of our experiments.

Next we are moving into hair, fiber, and nails. Here is the tentative schedule for the unit:

Monday Oct. 31:
* unit pretest
* introduce general structure of hair and features to look for (powerpoint on wiki soon)
* analyze own hair and look at difference between shed and force pulled hairs

Tuesday Nov. 1 (Mr. Landry absent):
* CSI
* time for working on case report from chromatography unit (due today)

Wednesday Nov. 2
* Hair identification lab (finish analyzing own hair and compare to various mammal hair samples)
* Forensic use of hair
* Using hair to identify race

Thursday Nov. 3
* Forensic science uses of hair
* Analyzing other body hairs
* Hair wrapup

Friday Nov. 4
* Begin basics of fibers
* intro analysis of fibers lab

Monday Nov. 7
* Continue analysis of fibers lab

Tuesday Nov. 8
* Wrapup analysis of fibers
* paint analysis

Wednesday Nov. 9
* Catchup day
* Test review

Thursday Nov. 10
* Test

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