Scientists visited our classroom and showed students how to extract the DNA from a banana. It was messy work mushing up the banana with our hands!

Students learned that every living thing has DNA. They also learned the difference between living and non-living things.

Our morning class was able to extract some banana DNA but although they worked hard the afternoon class was unable to get any DNA.

Students learned however that sometimes things don't always work the way we expect them to especially with experiments!