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Baby Week At CHS Written by Cathann Nix
Students in the Food Science courses just completed a unit on infant and toddler nutrition. As a culminating activity, students were given a "baby" for 24 hours.
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Who Stole The Drinks? Written by Sarah Young
Mr. Tallent taught his students about fingerprinting during the Forensic Science classes. Students recently completed a lab in class to try and identify prints. The story behind the lab was someone had been stealing Mr. Tallent's sodas from the teacher's lounge, and he needed his student's help to identify who did it. Each group of students got two cans ranging from colors light green, dark red, or a dark purple. Their supplies were gloves (they would not leave their fingerprints), fingerprinting powder (depending on the color of the cans, it may have been a black or an orange powder), and a brush to put the powder on the cans and dust for prints. After dusting the cans, students took a piece of tape and put it on where they found the fingerprint, pressed it down slightly, slowly removed the tape, and placed the gifted fingerprint on a white sheet of paper. After closely investigating the prints, students came up with the suspects and finally had to figure out who did it. This was a very fun lab and a great way to show how important fingerprinting can be while investigating a crime.
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Case Study for Forensic Science Written by Cathanna Nix
Mr. Tallent keeps his students busy with real-world activities to apply the information learned in his Forensic Science Class. The current students analyzed a missing person homicide case. The missing person was a male called Cary Underwood, who left a note saying he couldn’t do it anymore and fled. Five years later, he sent a letter to his wife, inferring he was fine and did not want to be found. The letter had no return address. Eventually, after years, he was found dead in an underground bunker on some land. The police department questioned witnesses and collected evidence. The students were presented with the collected evidence and interviews to search for answers and try and solve the case. Mr. Tallent informed me that the project’s purpose was to learn techniques to use evidence applying it to actual crimes. Students were to use evidence to find a motive for what happened to Cary Underwood. The students had to ask themselves questions such as “Who could be behind this?” and “How is this information relevant to the crime?” Students had to apply what information they had to find the answers to what happened to him while using techniques they had learned in class.
Tallent said, “The opportunity for students to work a case file like this gives them a hands on and real-world opportunity to make their learning relevant.” The students are actively working on the case. Indian Lore will present their findings once the students have solved -
It’s Slime Time In Forensics Science
On August 17th Mr. Tallent’s Forensic Science class completed a slime lab. This has been the first lab of the year, and was a big hit. Students formed into groups and took on the task of making slime from household items such as; shaving cream, Elmer's School glue, contact solution, and food coloring. Mr. Tallents students thoroughly enjoy his classes, and his labs that always tend to put a smile on their faces. One student in 2nd period Forensics, Braxton Floyd, stated, “Mr. Tallent makes school fun, and always lets us be ourselves in his class along with allowing us to express ourselves authentically during labs” When asked why he had the students complete this lab Mr. Tallent replied, “ The purpose was two fold: to introduce lab safety and to accurately follow directions. The directions involved not only the steps to create the slime but also thinkgs like cheering on your lab partners and singing “Mary Had A Little Lamb”. Good job, Mr. Tallent at making learning fun!
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Crime Hits Home at CHS: Stolen Quiz In Environmental Science
The national rate for stolen quizzes in the United States is rising and has struck Chattooga High School. In Mr. Tallent’s Science and Forensice Science classes, he had scheduled a quiz for Thursday, August 18th. Due to unfortunate circumstances, the quiz was stolen during lunch. Mr.Tallent set up this interesting and fun lab for the students in all his classes.
Students in all of his classes had to solve the case by examining the residue left behind by the “perpetrator”. Students were given several substances to analyze under a microscope that could have been the residue left by the suspects. Mr. Tallent comprised a list of suspects who could have committed the crime and developed elaborate stories on why they would have left the suspicious residue. Then, after inspecting the posible substances, students had to compare them to the residue left from the crime. The results varied for each class period. This was an innovative and fun way to teach students how to examine residue, use a microscope and compare evidence.
