St Bede's Science

The Science Department at St Bede's.

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Learning about transpiration with Y9. @SAPS_News using the straw potometer. Once we found stems that didn’t leave a gap it worked really well. They left them on the windows and I’ve been marking them through the afternoon. Doing it again later this week.

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@leysbiotutor Thanks for the tip. There are not many but I’ll take a look.

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@leysbiotutor not quite what you have but the site manager told me to go to the end of the carpark to look at this today.

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@leysbiotutor We definitely will. Great timing as just teaching this to y8.

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Good luck for Biology today. You’ve got this!

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The theme for British Science week this year was time. Many of our students took part in a challenge to design a way to accurately time 10 seconds. Some of the efforts shown here. Some students got very close (9.98). Lots of experimentation and discussion.

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@leysbiotutor @thorogoodchris1 @CUBotanicGarden A great idea. I’m not sure we have enough floral diversity on site though. Agree that @CUBotanicGarden would be perfect for that though.

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@leysbiotutor We haven’t- I bet there would be some amazing ideas if we did.

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Newton is always a popular choice for entry - this one includes an actual apple (crab apple)! #hardboiledscience

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@leysbiotutor This is what we share. We’ve been doing it since 2017.

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@leysbiotutor Not much! We have a poster - will find that in a bit. We emphasise that the description that they have written is important - it’s not all about the egg. They can use a real egg or egg shape and it can be any scientist or an event they consider to be really important.

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@leysbiotutor Thank you. I will let the owner of this egg know that it received such a positive response. It’s a lovely competition and we really enjoy the creativity shown and the range of scientists/key moments in scientific history that are chosen.

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A mysterious entry. #hardboiledscience

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Another Newton entry - but the egg represents the apple this time! #hardboiledscience

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A wonderful entry dedicated to the contributions made by Alan Turing. #hardboiledscience

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Einstein is another popular choice. The student said that he chose him because of his predictions about space. #hardboiledscience

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We’ve had many entries depicting Hawking over the years, this is the first one dedicated to his equation giving the entropy of a black hole. #hardboiledscience

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An egg-cellent contribution depicting Marie Curie and a wonderful description of her work. #hardboiledscience

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Another entry showing Isaac Newton - this one was accompanied by a description of his contributions to optics. #hardboiledscience