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Today year 10 have been using whiteboard.fi to sketch pictures of the steps of the greenhouse effect. These are some of the best! Next lesson we are going to put the steps together as a group to make sure everyone understands!
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Some great work on food webs from one of our year 10s. Well done Mohammed!
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Seeing some amazing medical tech from @TheHGPig - using an iPhone to study the eye! So many different medical career options.
How do you choose which animal to spend conservation money on, to also benefit others in the environment? Really thought provoking questions from @PunkBiologist!
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Now time for a talk by @PunkBiologist about conservation - making GCSE Biology relevant using her experiences in the wild! #GCSEScienceinActipn
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Learning about how beat boxers create their sounds! Fascinating stuff that we’d not considered before! #GCSEScienceinAction
First session of #GCSEScienceInAction with year 10. Learning about galaxies with @drbecky_ !
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Mr. Fowlds made some elephants toothpaste, much to the dismay of our technician Mark! Here he is, cleaning up the remains. #SharplesOpenEvening
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Mr. McCann set the rest of the methane bubbles on fire πŸ”₯ #SharplesOpenEvening
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We also saw Hydrogen being set on fire with Miss Dudley 🎈πŸ”₯ #SharplesOpenEvening
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Mr. McCann having his hand set on fire by Amirah using methane bubblesπŸ”₯πŸ”₯ #ScienceOpenEvening
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Mr Harding and Isaac showed the effects of static electricity using the van der graaf earlier! #SharplesOpenEvening
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Miss Oliver and Miss Booth doing another fantastic liquid nitrogen show! Smashing marshmallows with a hammer, frying an egg and making icepops in no time at all. β„οΈπŸ§ŠπŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬
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Join us this evening for the live science show, streaming this evening from one of our labs. Liquid nitrogen, the van der graaf generator, methane bubbles and so much more! πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬
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Miss Oliver and Miss Booth doing another fantastic liquid nitrogen show! Smashing marshmallows with a hammer, frying an egg and making icepops in no time at all. β„οΈπŸ§ŠπŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬
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The prep for the science show
Join us this evening for the live science show, streaming this evening from one of our labs. Liquid nitrogen, the van der graaf generator, methane bubbles and so much more! πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬
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Join us for our virtual open evening 4-7 this Thursday with Sharples science doing a live zoom room, with experiments and our yearly science show! πŸ§‘πŸ”¬
Brilliant final talk from Tim Underwood about oesophageal cancer treatment. Fascinating research and advances being made, with some wonderful footage of a real operation!
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