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Home Chemistry -Forgeries

Hello everyone!

Today for science we were doing forgery so so far this has been amazing thanks to Mr. Palmer and Whaea Joe. Lately, we have been doing science based on detective kind of things like forgery and forensics they are actually really fun and you can even do it at home. This week is probably the last week to earn a science badge and I am trying my hardest to achieve that. So I hope you learn a lot of information from this blog post about forgery.

Graphologists are forensic experts who look at handwriting.



Many things can be forged: art works, money, writing, etc

Forgery link

Aim: To Analyse a signature using forensic science.

Material:

A pen / pencil
Tracing Paper
Writing paper
A ruler

Steps:

A. Top Of Letter Analysis

1. Sign your name on a sheet of writing paper and get someone else to try to copy it.
2. Place the tracing paper over both signatures and make a dot at the top point of each letter – for both signatures.
3. Join up the dots for both signatures to get two zigzag lines across the signatures. Are the lines the same?

B. Bottom of Letter Analysis

1. Put some fresh tracing paper over both signatures.
2. Put a dot at the bottom of each letter.
3. Join up the dots to make zig zag lines. Are the lines the same?

C. Slant Analysis

1. Put a fresh piece of tracing paper over both signatures.
2. Mark a vertical line down through the middle of each letter (using a ruler), slanting it in the same direction as
the letter.
3. Compare the set of lines for both signatures. 
What do they tell you.

Findings:

	You	Friend
Top Letter Analysis Are the lines the same?	Yes, I can actually tell that it's my name when I compare it.	When I did my friends signature I couldn't really understand it then after when I compared them I could not tell. They must've just not done the dots properly.
Bottom Letter Analysis Are the lines the same?	Kind of but not entirely but when I compared them it was understandable.	Yes, I could it was good placing so then I could understand it.
Slant Analysis What are the slants telling you?	It is telling me that there are 5 lines meaning there are 5 letters and also it is kind of following the zigzags.	There are 6 lines probably because I saw more different letters and my friend did not do my signature the same.

Conclusion:

I loved today's science it was about forgery! It is where we have to try to tell the person's personality is. This was really fun since I have never done this before and since I am able to do it at home I can totally do itwith my siblings. All we had to do was trace and draw and things like that if you want to try it for yourself look at my instruction I am sure it will help:)








Activity : Get someone to try to forge your signature and then try both of these methods to analyse it.

Write up the findings based on the following questions.

  Writing analysis of a friends forgery.

     

The size of the letters – all big, all small, mixed?
Where they dot the ’ i ‘– over the top or off to the left or off to the right, or not at all
How they cross their t – straight, angled up or down, where on the t stroke it is crossed
The slant of the letters (use a ruler) – forward, backward, upright, mixed
Are there breaks in words, or are all the letters in the words joined up
The length of stalks on y, q, p, below the lines – long or short