NSTA Seattle Conference winner of a Swift microscope! Congratulations to Steven Thibault of Eastmont Junior High School in East Wenatchee, Washington!
This four-day summer workshop is designed for forensics' teachers with five years experience or less. Whether you are teaching a course in forensics or looking for ways to integrate forensics into your existing math or science curriculum, you will find this course to be extremely useful. The course content can be expanded to challenge the needs of the AP, accelerated or honors students or it can be used to motivate and engage students who would otherwise shy away from math and science.
Forensic science:
- Incorporates math, biology, chemistry, physics, technology, and writing skills.
- Provides a means to integrate skills around a theme of problem solving a mystery.
- Addresses the following with hands-on activities:
- Labs
- Interactive computer activities.
- Case studies.
- Power Point Presentations:
- Evidence collection.
- Trace evidence including: hair, fiber and pollen.
- Time of Death determination using rigor, algor and livor mortis and Forensic Entomology.
- Blood spatter.
- DNA fingerprinting.
- Impression evidence: fingerprints, foot, dental and tire, tool mark evidence.
- Bone analysis and osteobiography.
- Ballistics.
- Glass.
- Soil and Sand analysis.
- Chromatography.
- Hand writing analysis.
- Drug analysis.
- Special emphasis will be placed on:
- Lab set-ups and organization.
- Cost reduction options.
- Meeting the needs of heterogeneous students.
- Participants receive Forensic Science:
- Fundamentals and Investigations published by Cengage Publishing.
- A binder of additional activities
- Case studies
- Extended objective sheets for each topic.
The course is presented by Anthony (Bud) Bertino and Patricia Nolan Bertino, co-authors of this forensic science textbook.
Title: Bertino Forensic Science Institute
Location: Scotia-Glenville High School, Scotia, NY 12302 (near Schenectady)
Cost: $ 475 Includes textbook, binder and materials, lab costs, Sherlock Bones, CDrom
Information: Contact Patti Bertino at
nolanp@nycapsr.com or 518-384-1718 with questions.
Registration: Go to our website
www.bertinoforensics.com to view the three sessions.
Registration begins after the first of the year (2011). If you encounter problems, contact us by phone.
For more information about us, visit
http://www.BertinoForensics.com
Swift was proud to showcase our new M3 line of Micro/Macroscopes to an enthusiastic audience at the recent World Didac India held in Mumbai. As one ofthe worlds most rapid growing countries, Education is on the top of the agenda in India, which already has a booming industry of privately runInternational School style franchises. As a renowned brand, Swift products were seen as providing excellent Value for Money. The M10 series as well asour unique M3F Forensic Comparison Microscope were a big success. Join us at the next World Didac in October, this time in Basel Switzerland to seefirst-hand how quality can make a difference.
Swift's innovative M3 series microscopes are now in stock! The M3 microscope has the unique capability of viewing both microscopic and macroscopicspecimens. The M3's top and bottom LED illuminators are powered by a rechargeable battery allowing up to 40 hours of cordless operation. Monocular andbinocular head versions are available. Please call Swift customer service or your local Swift dealer for more information.
Swift Microscopes are now available globally. With the popularity of the Swift brand on the rise, more and more international countries have expressedinterest to import our quality Microscopes. The expansion of our operation now covers the entire globe and we are happy to entertain enquiries from allover the world. For more information: Please contact our Asia Pacific Global Distribution Center located in Hong Kong at:
Europe@swiftoptical.com
or
Asia-Pacific@swiftoptical.com
Swift Optical is pleased to be a small part of providing better health care in Rwanda. Recently the Ntarama health centre, constructed by the SurvivorsFund (SURF) organization acquired a Swift M7000CB to provide basic health services to the nearby rural population of 26,000 individuals. According toDr. Aflodis Kagaba, Executive Director, “This microscope is not only helping to support the health and wellbeing of the Rwandan people throughincreased lab services, but has decreased diagnostic time, allowing for quicker treatment and better health outcomes.”
Thanks for stopping by our booth during the recent NSTA Philadelphia Conference! It was three days filled with many opportunities to share our productsand “how to” with science educators.
A student learning about microscopy
Microscope raffle winner Elizabeth Taylor from Branford, CT with her new M3500 microscope
Microscopy lesson plans are now available to download from the "Education Resources" area of the website. More material to be included soon!
Swift digital product users now have the option of using Motic Images Plus 2.0 software to capture and manipulate images instead of the bundledSwiftcam II software. Visit the support page for more information on how to download the software for free!