Ghana Session: Forensic Science, African American Museum, and more!

On October 7, 2016, the students in Ghana and the students at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School set up a video conference on forensic science. Mr. Middleton opened the session by sharing what he was teaching his students about forensic science.

Forensic Science presentation

He informed the students in Ghana that the MLK students would learn how forensic science would be used to solve crimes by analyzing finger prints, DNA, and the scene of the crime.

Students were thrilled with Mr. Middleton’s presentation and they wanted to hear more. Mr. Middleton turned his presentation over to eighth grade student Jaiden Griffin. She shared her experience so far in the forensic science class. She shared a notebook of notes and her current project regarding fingerprints.

National History Museum of African American History and Culture

After the forensic science presentation, Ms. Major Phillips gave a power point presentation on the National History Museum of African American History and Culture.

Her presentation showed what the museum consisted of, which was African American memorabilia from their communities, families, art, religion, slavery, segregation, and civil rights era.

Sunlight presentation

The session continued with a presentation on Mr. Mason’s science project of “How Does Light Allow Us To See?” This project showed how sunlight reflects light from the glass in order for a person to see the glass. The students from Ghana shared that they also were doing a similar experiment.

American Revolution to the American Civil War

Finally, Mr. Wronko had students continue their presenations on comparing the “American Revolution to the American Civil War.”

This round, students had interesting interpretations to share with the students in Ghana. They stated that both wars were long, dealt with issues not favoring everyone, and how smaller armies were defeating larger armies.

Students involved with this forensic science session:

• Kevin Barksdale
• Nasier Clarke
• Shanice Davis
• Leslie Gil-Garcia
• Ahmir Hare
• Guerlandie Jean Pierre
• Perla Perez-Hernandez
• Diana Ramirez
• Amira Gates
• Diego Perez
• Kay’sionna Clarke
• Dakim Randolph
• JaNiya Brazile
• Jovard Preval
• Deshay Rolfe

On an end note, Amira Gates and Deshay Rolfe shared their Native American project to the students in Ghana which involved creating a play, comic book character, and answering “What Changes In History Do You See? Could Those Changes Have Been Prevented?”