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Sparking STEM @sparkingstem.bsky.social · Jun 19

🙌 Check out these brilliant comics by @andthemicrobes.bsky.social
Brilliant for engaging children in microbiology.
🥳 Share with your children /students and broaden their ideas about #science!

Sparking STEM @sparkingstem.bsky.social · May 24

Are you a #PhD, #Postdoc or #research fellow working in #STEM who wants to know more about inspiring children with #outreach?

Join me for a FREE 45-minute online session to find out if outreach with children is what you’re looking for.

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Sparking STEM @sparkingstem.bsky.social · Apr 23

Loved giving out our first AQA accredited Unit Award Scheme certificates! It’s wonderful to be able to give formal recognition of the skills and learning our students have shown! We’re in a trial phase and should have this available for all our students for September! 🥳

#outdoorstem

Sparking STEM @sparkingstem.bsky.social · Apr 9

Beautiful day at Cresswell Crags today!

Sparking STEM @sparkingstem.bsky.social · Mar 14

The joy of finding a high clay content soil to use as a ‘binding agent’ in the daub of your wattle and daub construction! 🤩

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#Sheffield #OutdoorSTEM #Outdoorlearning

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Sparking STEM @sparkingstem.bsky.social · Mar 12

Great teamwork and construction skills in Outdoor STEM today!

Sparking STEM @sparkingstem.bsky.social · Mar 7

After mastering the method to produce as much carbon dioxide as we needed, the 11-16s Outdoor STEM group conducted a range of investigations to explore the properties and impacts of carbon dioxide 👏 😊☀️🌿🧪.

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#Sheffield #OutdoorSTEM #Outdoorlearning #STEM

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Sparking STEM @sparkingstem.bsky.social · Mar 5

There’s nothing like playing catch with a balloon of pure carbon dioxide to learn through experience how dense it is compared to air! Great to be back to Outdoor STEM!!

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#Sheffield #OutdoorSTEM #Outdoorlearning #homeeducation

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Sparking STEM @sparkingstem.bsky.social · Mar 5

A beautiful day for #Outdoor STEM! 😊🍃☀️

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#Sheffield #sheffield #sheffieldissuper #sheffieldhomeeducation

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Sparking STEM @sparkingstem.bsky.social · Mar 5

Look at this fantastic model of a carbon dioxide molecule made by one of the 8-12s Outdoor STEM students today! It even has the double bonds! 🥰

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#Sheffield #homeeducation #outdoorlearning #outdoorSTEM

Sparking STEM @sparkingstem.bsky.social · Feb 27

A fantastic afternoon with all the Year 6 students at Totley Primary in our workshop about Linnaean Classification! The students met a weird and wonderful range of organisms from all the kingdoms and discovered how they’re classified to species 😃
#primaryschool #sheffield #sheffieldschools

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Sparking STEM @sparkingstem.bsky.social · Feb 26

It was wonderful to bring together fifteen #homeeducated children and eight #phd #science researchers this afternoon!
The children’s questions were so insightful and broad-thinking and the scientists really helped us all to learn so much about their varied research fields! 😃

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Sparking STEM @sparkingstem.bsky.social · Feb 25

Another fantastic day training these wonderful #PhD researchers on the ‘Effective Outreach with Children’ course! They did a brilliant job answering questions from year six students at @Totley Primary School this morning! 👏 🎉
#scicomm #outreach #science

Sparking STEM @sparkingstem.bsky.social · Feb 24

Fantastic to meet more #PhD researchers from @GW4alliance today for another online ‘Effective Outreach With Children’ course. Today they’ve begun to translate their complex research into engaging, inspirational and enjoyable #outreach activities for children. Looking forward to more tomorrow!

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Francesco De Batté @francescodb.bsky.social · Feb 24

I'm having a great time at the online Effective Outreach with Children course by @sparkingstem.bsky.social! Lots of useful principles for making one's science engaging for younger kids

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Sparking STEM @sparkingstem.bsky.social · Feb 16

Meet Skippy! Our Blue Mountain Jumping Spider! He likes light-bathing, eating fruit flies and polishing his beautiful iridescent green-blue mandibles! 🥰
Looking forward to introducing him to some primary school children in a few weeks in our ‘Arthropods’ curriculum enrichment workshop!

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Sparking STEM @sparkingstem.bsky.social · Feb 12

Fluorescing chlorophyll! Great work from today’s 8-12s Practical Science students!
As they waited for their photosynthesis experiments to work, they extracted chlorophyll from spinach and saw how good it is at absorbing energy from light!

Sparking STEM @sparkingstem.bsky.social · Feb 4

The foxes feast well when we’ve been doing heart dissections in Practical Science! 🦊 ❤️

#STEM #Science #homeeducation #sheffield

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Sparking STEM @sparkingstem.bsky.social · Jan 29

Intense concentration in 8-12s Practical Science today as they used balances, measuring cylinders, and syringes accurately, to investigate rates of diffusion! Brilliant work everyone!

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#science #stem #homeed

Sparking STEM @sparkingstem.bsky.social · Jan 29

Today’s 8-12s Practical Science students loved watching and measuring diffusion with our phenolphthalein spheres! So satisfying to watch the pink colour vanish as the vinegar diffused in!
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#homeed #science #STEM

Sparking STEM @sparkingstem.bsky.social · Jan 26

A friend and I found this beautiful male chaffinch yesterday, unable to fly or walk due to a hugely deformed leg (yes that’s its leg, poor thing)!
It seemed glad of the shelter and food we gave it and now it’s being well looked after at a wildlife sanctuary. 😊

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Sparking STEM @sparkingstem.bsky.social · Jan 22

So much fun in 8-12s Practical Science today as the students explored over twenty activities and demonstrations to learn about light dispersal, reflection, refraction, filtering and transmission!
#science #stem #homeed

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Sparking STEM @sparkingstem.bsky.social · Jan 22

So much fun in 8-12s Practical Science today as the students explored over twenty activities and demonstrations to learn about light dispersal, reflection, refraction, filtering and transmission!
#science #stem #homeed

Sparking STEM @sparkingstem.bsky.social · Jan 22

So much fun in 8-12s Practical Science today as the students explored over twenty activities and demonstrations to learn about light dispersal, reflection, refraction, filtering and transmission!
#science #stem #homeed

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Sparking STEM @sparkingstem.bsky.social · Jan 22

So much fun in 8-12s Practical Science today as the students explored over twenty activities and demonstrations to learn about light dispersal, reflection, refraction, filtering and transmission!
#science #stem #homeed

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