The Grade 6 is doing a Forensics unit in Science class and so their next art project is going to be a large painting of one of their own fingerprints. The students will paint using only 2 complementary colours + the shades and tints of those colours. These paintings will be a unique portrait of each student.
This week the students explored what a fingerprint is. Some of the words they used to define a fingerprint are: identity, visible, recordable, unique, incriminating, code, password, everywhere, skin, oil, useful, forensics, DNA, everybody has them and they are everywhere.
The students also experimented with how to record a fingerprint in their Development Sketchbooks. The three types of prints made were an ink print, an acrylic paint print and a cocoa and oil print. There were varying degrees of success but by far the most difficult one to "capture" was the cocoa and oil print.
6th Grade Homework (see the Calendar for due dates)
In your Development Sketchbooks research the following vocabulary for fingerprints: Arch, Loop, Whorl, Accidental, Composite. For each word write a definition in your own words and draw an example fingerprint. The size of your drawings can be quite small but 3cm x 3cm should be the smallest.
