3. Student Activity
1.Select one research topic from the list below.
2.Gather information about this topic from the sources on Slide 2. Use this Cornell Notes 5W’s organizer to record your research notes; remember to cite your sources on the organizer. 
3.Use this Microsoft Publisher template to create your timeline panel; directions are included on the template. For an example, see this model timeline panel for the topic First Users of Fingerprints, which will be the first panel in your class timeline.
4.Save or print out your completed timeline panel according to your teacher’s directions.  All timeline panels should then be sequenced chronologically to create a class Fingerprint Factor Timeline. 
•Note to teacher: Class timeline may be created in digital format by combining all timeline panels into one MS Publisher or PDF file; or, hard copies of all timeline panels may be printed out to create a class timeline wall display or packet.
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Research Topic List
1.Early Scientists (Nehemia Grew, Marcello Malpighi, Johannes Purkinje)
2.Alphonse Bertillon
3.Henry Faulds 
4.Francis Galton
5.Sir Edward Richard Henry
6.William James Herschel
7.Fuseo Matsumur
8.Juan Vucetich
9.FBI: AFIS and IAFIS
10.Recent advancements in fingerprint technology (2000- present)