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Emily of Wilbraham, MA

Print and finger it out! Be a part of another live international science experiment.
What do you always have but always leave behind? Your fingerprints! No two fingerprints are exactly alike. What do you fingerprints look like?

Instructions

Instructions


  1. Take a pencil and scribble on a piece of paper until you have a nice big black mark.
  2. Then rub your index finger in the mark. Your index finger is the one next to your thumb.
  3. Now get some tape. The best tape to use is called transparent tape or utility tape. Put a piece of it over your finger, press down, and pull it off.
  4. Then put the tape on a piece of paper. Now you can see your fingerprint.


Most people's fingerprints look like a whorl, loop or arch. What does your index look like?

Pick one
whorl loop arch


Some of your Results

Amanda, age 10 of Keene, NH wrote:
my finger is a arch.

Andrew, age 5 of Marina, CA wrote:
First, we made our finger prints and they were black. Then, we put them on a piece of tape. Finally, we saw lots of curvy lines.

Malique, age 12 of Fall River, MA wrote:
I looked at my fingerprints and I think, there all loops. Pretty weird.

Bridget, age 11 of Fort Worth, TX wrote:
I was doing an experment by a book saying to mkae fingerprints so I did and next thing i`m taking everyone fingerprints home and at school.

Monti, age 12 of Bronx, NY wrote:
i found out mii finger print. thats so cool.

Desirae, age 12 of Indianapoils, IN wrote:
my finger print look different. it was whirl.

Ryan, age 13 of Indianapolis, IN wrote:
my finger print is a whorl.

Keyaira, age 13 of Indianapolis, IN wrote:
my fingerprints was a whorl.

Dylan of Altamonte Springs, FL wrote:
I think it was really cool to be able to fingerprint in class.

Nohely, age 13 of TX wrote:
the finger prints printed on the paper.

Sierra, age 9 of Chambersburg, PA wrote:
that my fingerprints were a loop.

Sydney, age 10 of Pittsburgh, PA wrote:
Fingers were loops and whorls. Toes were 4 loops and 1 arch.

Danish, age 7 of Lawrenceville wrote:
It had circles.

Janelle, age 7 of Bronx, NY wrote:
mine was different then I thought.

Danielle, age 7 of Marshall, MI wrote:
I have a toe print. the lines go up and down instead of across like on my fingers.

Alexis, age 15 of Murrieta, CA wrote:
my left finger and my right finger look like Wholrs fingerprint.

Bianca of Palm Beach Gardens, FL wrote:
I have this for a project, and it seems really cool. Most of my family's fingerprints are the same.

Molly of Birmingham wrote:
my finger print looked like a whorl I think.

Katie, age 9 of Ellicott City, MD wrote:
We took the fingerprints from our family. Every fingerprint of one person is not the same. Some fingerprints have wrinkles so they are harder to read. Sometimes there is a pattern with the same finger on each hand. The loop is the most common in our family. We didn't have a double loop.

Gretchen, age 10 of Davison, MI wrote:
i tried it and it worked I used scotch tape, but it was perfect you could see it clearly. it is amazing what smart people can come up with. I certaintly want to be that kind of a person!

Olivia, age 11 of Arlington, MA wrote:
I decided to test my whole family on their fingerprints. It was interesting to see all of our fingerprints on the same paper!

Justin, age 12 of Miami, FL wrote:
It came out looking like a loop print.

Elliot, age 5 of Fremont, CA wrote:
It was fun. Mine was whorl, my mommy's was same as mine. My daddy was a loop.

Erika, age 11 of Moreno Vally wrote:
I took off the tape and I had a whorl.

Tavannah, age 11 of Chciago, IL wrote:
when I did it I had a loop this waz a fun experiment

Antoinette of Lancaster, TX wrote:
It was pretty while that the print came out the same as mines. My Hypothesis was that I thought that it wasn't going to be true. So I had to test it out

Tavannah, age 11 of Chicago, IL wrote:
myfinger print was a loop

Molly of OH wrote:
I saw my fingerprint so clearly!

Mary, age 13 wrote:
my finger came out as a loop and it looked cool!

Brandon, age 9 of Jamaica wrote:
I did it!!:) and my fingerprint pattern is a loop. It was fun.

Teresa, age 10 of Poughkeepsie, NY wrote:
My index looked like a whorl and so did the other fingers exept the thumb it was a loop zoom did u know that some parents keep their childs fingerprints in case they get lost? I kept mine and also my brothers and sister they looked goood on the refrigerator lol lol lol


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