Workshops
Develop confident and effective contributors by investigating scientific concepts in our high-tech laboratories.
All workshops last approx 40 minutes unless otherwise stated and are available at certain times throughout the year.
Prepare your class prior to a visit or extend the experience back in the classroom with our e-resources highlighted in pink - experiments, games, posters and more!
Minibeasts Sorted! (P1-P3) 
Fascinated by invertebrates? Learn more about our creepy-crawly companions when you come face-to-face with our giant cockroaches and wiggly worms and explore the features that help us group them using our big interactive sorting key.
CfE: Planet Earth - Biodiversity (approx 30 mins)
Download our card game! Minibeasts Poster & Worksheets
Sniff, Look and Listen! (P1-P3)
Make sense of your senses through a range of exciting investigative activities including a sensational smell trail and a touchy feely task! Download Nina and the Neurons trail to try out free with your pupils during your visit.
CfE: Life and Cells: Using my senses
Nina and the Neurons Trail & Activities
Know Your Gnashers (P2-P4)
Investigate the importance of our teeth; the different tooth types and their special roles then compare ours with those of our animal friends!
CfE: Life and Cells: Keeping my body healthy
Teeth Worksheet
CAR-azy Circuits (P3-P7)
The challenge is on.....work collaboratively to design, build and race your own electrically powered car-azy cars!
CfE: Energy in the Environment: Electricity
Teacher Resources and Worksheets
It Wasnae Me! (P4-P7)
Developed with support from Scottish Fingerprint Services. Who kidnapped our resident skeleton Mr Bones? All our suspects have a motive but are claiming 'It Wasnae Me!'. Learn how to analyse fingerprints and other crime scene evidence to figure out who committed the crime.
CfE: Process of science enquiry; Chemical Reactions
Teacher Resources and Worksheets
Space Robots (P6-S2)
Learn how to use intuitive software that will command your robot to complete challenges on the surface of Planet X. Perfect your problem solving skills to keep your robot out of danger.
CfE: Process of science enquiry; Across Technologies; Mathematics: Time and Angles
Alien Explorers Worksheets & Angle Aerobics
Who Dunnit? (S1-S3)
Developed with support from Scottish Fingerprint Services. A serious crime has been committed nearby and there are several suspects. Using the DNA fingerprinting process and exploring other forensic science techniques you must work out 'Who Dunnit?!'
CfE: Forensic Science. Standard Grade & Intermediate Biology - Practical Abilities
Teacher Resources and Worksheets
Outbreak! (S3-S6) (2 hour workshop)
A new strain of deadly virus has been detected and the threat of a pandemic is looming. Working as a crisis control panel you will have to take difficult decisions based upon scientific evidence to stem the spread.
CfE: Topical Science; (Advanced)/ Higher Biology: Cell Biology. Also suitable for Media Studies; Guidance; English and Business Studies.
Epidemic Emergency Game
The Polymerase Chain Reaction - Biotechnology Workshop (S6) Look out for new dates in Autumn 2009.
(Please note that this is a full day workshop, cost: £12 + vat per pupil)
Practising MRC Virologists will share their expertise and give a genuine insight into the world of work as students use cutting edge equipment to diagnose virus infections. Click here for more details.
Advanced Higher - Nucleic Acids; Applications of DNA technology; Practical abilities.
Download presentation to use in class!
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