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

Glasgow, Scotland
Joined February 2016
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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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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2.8 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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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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Some fantastic plant dissections from S3 biologists today as we consolidated our understanding of plant reproduction 🌸🌷🐝 @Springburn_sci
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BGE team had a brilliant day at the Science Centre today! Thanks to @Springburn_sci for organising the trip and letting us have so much fun! Wish all Thursdays were like this! 🤩
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Some fantastic DNA extractions from our S3 Biologists today 🧬 @Springburn_sci
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S2 enjoyed creating and sharing their shelter designs as part of our Plane Crash Investigation ✈️🗺️🛠️
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A selection of the amazing cell models produced by our new Biologists today as they rounded off their first week in S3 🍪 @Springburn_sci
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Best of luck to all N5 and Higher biologists sitting exams today. We hope all of the hard work pays off! 🤞 @Springburn_sci
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STEM club starting tomorrow for S1-S3 🪴🧪🚀 @springburnacad @Springburn_sci
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My last day teaching my wonderful first years and it was a belter! Carrying on their serial dilutions of alkalis today, we added them next to our acids to show the full range of the pH scale 🧪 @Springburn_sci
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📢Calling any budding engineers! Widening Access pupils starting S5 or S6 this June can apply to our week-long summer programme in 1 of 3 engineering subjects: Chemical Eng; Electrical & Electronic Eng; or Product Design Eng. @Strath_ChemEng @EEEStrathclyde @strathdmem @StrathEng
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Wishing all of our N5 and Higher #Chemists here at @Springburn_sci the very best of luck today as they sit their final exams 🤞🏼✨ Go smash it team 👏🏼 ✨HIGHER CHEMISTRY✨ PAPER 1 9-9.40 PAPER 2 10.10-12.30. ✨N5 CHEMISTRY✨ 1-3.30
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