We were lucky to attend practical STEM activities at West College Scotland. It was a fantastic opportunity for us to learn more about science. Unsurprisingly, we had an incredible time!

We took a closer look at a real lamb’s heart and compared it to our heart. Next, we identified the right and left ventricles and the atriums. Mrs Napier showed us the pulmonary vein and stressed the importance of healthy eating and exercise as it can become blocked with a build up of plaque and damage our heart

! Yuck!

Secondly, we experimented with magnets and separated materials! We learned a compound cannot be separated, a mixture is much easier!

Next, we made explosions by releasing a gas, that caused pressure. The pressure was desperate to escape and caused an explosion!

We are all unique! Our fingerprints are individual to us. The man who invented the process of fingerprinting came from Scotland and he developed it to prove his friends innocence!

Finally, we made cones from filter paper to show chromatography!