Sharing news, updates and pupil work from the Science department in Springburn Academy!

Glasgow, Scotland
Joined February 2016
Great turnout for today's lunchtime STEM club! Some spooky Halloween themed Oobleck was the order of the day 🎃🧪 For anyone interested get yourself along to room 142 (Mr Coyle's classroom) every Wednesday at lunchtime. @springburnacad
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Excellent teamwork skills shown by 1.9 & 1.1 during our cell modelling task⭐️@springburnacad
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2.4 Science planned and carried out an experiment to test if a leaf had photosynthesised today. Great teamwork, communication and problem solving skills on display! @springburnacad 🌿🧪🥼
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Excellent trip to Elation Gym last week for team ‘Health’ in our S1 IDL block 🙌🏻 Lots of Sport Science in action (my 2 favourite things!) 🫁🏋🏻‍♀️ @SpringburnPE @Springburn_sci
Our health IDL started this week ‘make Springburn healthy’. There was Trips to Springburn leisure centre and Elation gym where our S1’s learned about different methods of training and aspects of a healthy lifestyle.
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Great for to work with our local butchers here in Springburn who sourced hearts for us! S4 pupils enjoyed this hands on experience ahead of their exam leave📖
Big thank you to A Weir, our local butcher, for sourcing hearts for us 🙌🏻 lots of problem solving & some great teamwork shown by S4 during dissections🫀
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Our Senior Phase Biologists enjoyed a day out at Edinburgh Zoo yesterday. Thank you to @rzss for hosting and delivering interesting and thought-provoking lessons for our N5 and Higher pupils. @springburnacad
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Last ‘Super Scientist of the Week’ of this term! Split between two worthy winners 🏆 lovely to hand out some Shout Outs today ✨ #successforall @springburnacad @Springburn_sci
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1.8 enjoyed a festive twist on our States of Matter topic today investigating solubility using candy canes 🍬🦌
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2.1 looking at factors affecting solubility with candy canes with Mrs Friel🎄
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2.8 enjoying a festive twist on our Chemical Reactions topic with ‘Melting Christmas Trees’🎄& ‘Invisible Ink’ 🎁
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So proud. Massive thanks to Ms Reid @SpringburnPE and a huge congratulations to all our amazing young people. Well deserved #successforall
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An exciting day yesterday thanks to a visit from the Sweaty Betty Foundation to deliver 50 Sports Hijabs to support our pupils! Proud of how confident our young people were engaging with @FoundationBetty @SpringburnPE
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Scan the QR code to learn more about engineering directly from those who work or study in the field! @UofGfemeng
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Our BGE class requested some ‘Spooky Science’ for this week👩🏻‍🔬 Lots of fun with flying ghosts 👻, colour changing potions 🧪, gummy mummies 💀, elephant’s toothpaste pumpkin & a dexterity task making some munchkin pumpkin decorations 🎃
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3D Biologists consolidated their understanding of natural selection with a moth camouflage challenge today. Thank you to @mrmartinbio for the moth cutter! If you spot a moth in the science corridor let me know and I'll take it down. Last one standing wins! @Springburn_sci
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Our Higher Biologists investigating the effect of substrate concentration on enzyme activity. 🧪🥏 @Springburn_sci
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A fun Friday in the lab. S3 biologists consolidated their learning of natural selection by taking part in a "beak battle ladder" @Springburn_sci 🐦🐦‍⬛🦜
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A fantastic day of PCR labs, further education pathways and ethical debates at @UofGlasgow for our Higher Biologists @springburnacad. 🧬🧪 #successforall
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Some fantastic plant dissections from S3 biologists today as we consolidated our understanding of plant reproduction 🌸🌷🐝 @Springburn_sci
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Happy summer holidays! We will see you all in August ☀️
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