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It's 4th quarter!!

Due 3/22 [|The CSI Effect] - please submit on turnitin.com - no lates accepted! Please respond to how you think this show and many others like it on TV have influenced the regular, non forensic scientist who may be on a jury. Do you think those shows have affected you and how you think about science and justice? Please feel free to respond to any other interesting points you found in the article.

Due April 5 [|Hair Detectives]- turnitin.com Did you realize how much your hair can tell? Do you think this is more reliable evidence than testimonial? What seems interesting about this advance in forensics? Use these prompts or response in your own way!

Due April 12 [|Crime Scene Cleaners] on turnitin.com What do you think about the advances in both science and cleaning materials? Do you think they should communicate findings and research to each other? Use this prompt or your own to also discuss other areas where other sciences may affect forensics.


== **THERE ARE ABSOLUTELY NO MORE LATE SCIENCE IN THE NEWS ARTICLES ACCEPTED! ONE WEEK TO READ AND COMPLETE A RESPONSE IS FAIR! **==

Due April 19- no lates!! Please read and respond to this weeks article: [|Cell Phone and DNA] Did you know your phone could tell so much about you??

Due May 3 - no lates accepted at all! [|Animal Forensics - Wildlife Crimes] - scroll through photos and paragraph captions underneath to see how forensics are used in these areas. [|Scroll through information about the author's book and lab here.]

Due Sunday May 10 - no lates [|Read Article about Kids and an Adult Disease] You response can include talking about if this infectious or not? How can you and others prevent themselves from getting this disease?

Due May 17 - no lates Read Article: [|Swine Flu and a Possible Vaccine] Responses may include: How will a vaccine help? Why the hysteria when H1N1 is not near as deadly as common influenza? Why the mass culling pf pigs in Egypt? How does that prevent the flu? Or your own response to the article and class discussions we have had about this topic.