1. Fake! Activity 3: The Painting? Year 7 Upgrade
A teaching sequence from the Forensics unit of upd8 wikid
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2. 7E Learning Cycle 2 Was the painting swapped for a worthless fake?
Students give ideas as to how they could find this out
Students explain their results and how they used chromatography
Students use chromatography to compare paints from a real old painting and the possible fake
Students explore using chromatography to separate the pigments in black ink
Students learn about how chromatography works and check their understanding 2
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3. Expected Learning:
Use chromatography to separate the substances in a mixture.
Explain how evidence from chromatography can be helpful to forensic scientists.
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4. I need to check your progress. What do these important words mean?
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I need to check your progress. What do these important words mean?
Particle
Mixture
Evidence 4
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5. But we still don’t know why.
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So Billie, we have evidence to prove that the painting was handled by an unknown person.
But we still don’t know why.
Hmmm…what if the person who broke in swapped the painting for a worthless fake? 5
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Great theory! Let’s ask the gallery owner if the painting looks like a fake.
I don’t think it will be that simple. We’ll need some evidence that it’s not the original painting. Let’s ask Dr Sherl for some advice.
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7. Figure out how to solve this problem, and find out how it works.
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You’re right Billie.
If we are going to present this theory in court we will need scientific evidence.
Forensic scientists use many different techniques to analyse evidence to help solve crimes.
Figure out how to solve this problem, and find out how it works. 7
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8. Most paints contain a mixture of different pigments.
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SS1
Most paints contain a mixture of different pigments.
Pigments are made up of particles.
Black paint is made up of many different pigments.
Pigments are coloured substances.
Different colour pigments contain different types of particles.
Modern paints and old paints contain totally different pigments. Most modern paints are made from synthetic (man-made) chemicals. Old paints were made from natural substances.
We can see the different pigments in a paint by separating them.
The real painting is from the 17th century. A fake would be modern.  8
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9. Engage
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Now you need to separate out the paint pigments from a real old painting and do the same for the painting you think is a fake. Use chromatography.
I’ve taken scrapings of paint from the real old painting (A) and the one we think is fake (B). I made the scrapings into a solution. I dabbed the solutions onto filter paper. It’s up to you to do the rest!
Hazard - possible flammable vapours or materials 9
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10. Activity 3: The Painting?
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11. I’ve carried out chromatography on both paints…
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SS4
I’ve carried out chromatography on both paints…
The gallery owner will be very interested in the results.
Great – so you see how chromatography is useful to forensic scientists!
Write a report to the gallery owner explaining what you have found out. Tell him how chromatography works, so he understands our results.  11
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12. Argh – all this investigating with inks has messed my notes up.
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SS5
Argh – all this investigating with inks has messed my notes up.
I need your help to fill in the smudged words. 12
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13. Activity 3: The Painting?
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14. Activity 3: The Painting?
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Optional differentiated plenary task - we have left some of the letters to the missing words visible.
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Activity from the Forensics unit © Association for Science Education and Centre for Science Education 2010.
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