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Florida Educational StandardsThe content of all Girl Scout national proficiency Badges and Journeys have been correlated by grade level to national and state learning objectives.
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Try out the skills that make great detectives. When you’ve earned this badge, you’ll know how to follow clues and discover facts like a real detective.
• Pencil• Access to internet• Tape• Fingerprint Card PDF• Water based markers• Coffee filters or paper towels• Ruler• Salt• Paintbrush
• CSI Additional ActivitiesWorksheet
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1. Practice the power of observation
2. Communicate in code
3. Fingerprint for fun
Try writing in secret code, here are some for you to try:
REVERSE THE WORD: This is quite easy, just reverse the words in the sentence.Example: lriG stuocS—This is decoded as Girl Scouts
NUMBERS FOR LETTERS: Write each letter of the alphabet as a number. This might make it a little easier for you:
THE PIGPEN CODE: This one is a little more tricky, first you write out the whole alphabet in two grids, like this—
Each letter is represented by the part of the “pigpen” or lines that surround it. If it’s the second letter in the box, then it has a dot in
Example: 7 9 18 12 19 3 15 21 20 19 — This is decoded as Girl Scouts
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
Record your fingerprints—Use a pencil to darken about a 1 inch square section on a piece of paper.Rub one fingertip across the pencil-covered section of paper. Stick a piece of clear tape onto yourblackened finger. (Packing tape works very well, but any clear tape will do.) Carefully remove the tapefrom the fingertip, and stick the tape onto the Fingerprints Card PDF in the correct section. Canyou see any of these patterns? If you have a magnifying glass at home you could use that to see thefingerprints in more detail or you can make a magnifying glass using this video.
4. Try out detective science
Go to this website and work out from the clues, which of the 4 suspects committed the crime!
You can write a secret message by following this video.
Include her name, troop# and the name of the badge she’s working on and we’ll feature her.
AB
GH
MN
CD
IJ
OP
EF
KL
QR
ST
YZ
UV WX
So an A looks like this:
Example:
This is decoded as Listen to the wind.
And a B looks like this:
Plain Arch Radial LoopTented Arch Plain Whorl Double Loop Whorl
Ulnar Loop Central Pocket Loop
Accidental Whorl
Scientists use Chromatography to compare ink they might find at a crime scene. You can do this at home by following this video.
5. Follow the clues to solve a real mystery!
Watch this video to practice your powers of observation and deduction (working out the answers from clues).
