FINGERPRINTS(Lifting fingerprints)

Today we have been lifting our fingerprints. 

First We had to rub our thumb on our hair so that it would get greasy and then wed put the print on the window, then we had been given a brush that had some normal cornstarch on it and we lightly rubbed the powder on top of the fingerprints and then we got a piece of tape from Mrs Kennedy and we lifted the prints of the window and then so that we could see the prints we put them on some black paper and then we wrote our names on them and we were finished.

This is my piece of paper.

WHETU CRIME(Finger prints)

This week we have been learning about our finger prints and I have learned that there are 3 different main types of finger prints. The Loop, The Whorl and the Arch there are also different types of these finger prints like the accidental loop, The Double loop and the peek arch.

An arch is a finger print where the lines start from one side and trail to the other.

A loop is a finger print that starts on one side of the finger and loops back around to end on the same side that it started on.

A whorl is a finger print where the lines start in the middle and whorl around and around until it hits the edges of you finger.  
I had 2 Arches, 3 Loops and 5 whorls.

I have really enjoyed doing this finger printing task and I thought it was really, really fun to identify all of my finger prints.

Over all I think that this activity was a blast and I would DEFINITELY do it again.

This is my sheet and a close up on a few of my finger prints.

My finger print sheet

All of my finger prints

WHETU CRIME SCENE (2020)

Yesterday was the first day of term 4, the last term of the school year until 2021.

It was a big shock to all of us waking in to class and seeing so much police tape all over the place. once we where all in class Mrs Kennedy told us what had gone down while we where all out having a vacation. On the weekend before school started Mrs Kennedy went to school to laminate some sheets for our learning but when she got to school she walked over to the classroom to see that the glass door had been cracked and it had blood on it, to Mrs Kennedy's surprise there where foot prints every where and that's when she found more clues like some chocolates that had been placed everywhere and that's when she found an eaten chocolate wrapper so before she got any closer to the scene she rung Mr Fraser and from then to now we have found multiple different clues like Mr Singh's Drivers License and a broken vase along with a spilled mug of an unidentified liquid but we are very sure that it is either tea or coffee.

My group has found out that the shoe size was actually a size 9 but we still have no proof on who it is.

Here are some pictures of what went down.