STEP 1 - LIVING THINGS - 3rd and 4th class Science - Myself

Taking our own fingerprints

We gathered our equipment, sellotape, white paper and a pencil. The children had to predict if they thought their  finger prints would be all different. Using a pencil, they scribbled thickly onto a piece of white paper. They then rubbed their finger over the pencil marking until their finger was almost black. They then pressed it onto the sticky side of a piece of sellotape and pressed it onto a piece of plain white paper. They were able to see and compare their fingerprints and they used lens to look for loops, splits, ridges and cusps which highlighted the individuality of each child's fingerprint. We then wrote up our experiment.