Attention all S2! Today is your last chance to be part of Strathaven’s 2021 Industrial Cadets team. Here are some of the interesting projects you can work on. More information in your Google Classroom. @EDTScotland

S1 have been learning about space and today were being stars in a galaxy ⭐️ 💫

Happy Summer from all of Science! Have a lovely holiday and keep safe ☀️

A great chat in the @RoySocChem Environment Zone today with students from @StrathavenAcad #IASStayAtHome

Thank you to the @imascientist team today for an amazing live chat with environmental scientists! They gave brilliant answers to some tricky questions asked by our new S2. Looking forward to this afternoon’s chat with the new S1 now.

An online STEM academy is running over the summer😎. If you are interested click the link to find out more🧐. @StrathavenSci

📏 You are about 1 cm taller in the morning when you first get up than when you go to bed. This is because during the day the soft cartilage between your bones gets squashed and compressed. 🔬 Every square inch of the human body is made of about 19 million skin cells.

⚠️ Stomach acid can dissolve metals. 👂 Earwax is partly made up of sweat. 💓 Most heart attacks happen on Mondays. 🍽 People spend over 4 years of their lives eating.

😲 It’s possible for your body to survive without a surprisingly large fraction of its internal organs. You can survive without your stomach, your spleen, 75% of your liver, 80% of your intestines, one kidney, one lung, and virtually every organ from your pelvic and groin area.

💅 Your fingernails grow four times as fast as your toenails. 👃 Everyone, except identical twins, have a unique smell. 😂 It is impossible to tickle yourself. 👀 Your eyes blink 20 times a minute. That’s over 10 million times a year.

😵 The human head can remain conscious for up to 20 seconds after being decapitated. 👂 Your ears never stop growing. 🎶 Your heartbeat synchronises with the rhythm of the music you are listening to. 🛁 Your produce enough saliva in a lifetime to fill up 52 bathtubs.

🤤 Your mouth produces about 500ml of saliva every day. 👅 Like fingerprints, everyone has a unique tongue print. 😛 The strongest muscle in the human body is the tongue. 👫 The largest organ of the human body is the skin.

🥵 Your body gives off enough heat in 30 minutes to boil half a gallon of water. 🤧 A sneeze blows air out of your nose at 100 miles per hour. 🦠 Your mouth has more bacteria than there are people on Earth 👃 The human nose can detect about 1 trillion different smells.

This week our new S2 scientists have been learning a bit more about the human body. Here is a thread of some of the weird and wonderful facts they discovered 🤯

Our new S1 have an amazing opportunity to take part in a live chat with some real scientists next Friday! Information on how to join in has been posted on the Transition Google Classroom. We hope to see lots of you there! https://t.co/un2NKAEwNQ @StrathavenAcad

‼️🏆THE ULTIMATE DISTANCE CHALLENGE‼️🏆 🏅Staff v Pupils v Parents🏅 Walk🚶🏻‍♀️Run 🏃🏾‍♂️or Cycle 🚴🏻‍♂️ who can travel the furthest, Staff, Pupils or Parents?? Starting MONDAY 8th June until WEDNESDAY 24th June🗓 🏆 All information below👇👇 READY STEADY GO! STARTS TOMORROW✅ #LetsGo

And here is one of them in action! A huge well done to our creative and resourceful young scientists! 👍

Our scientists have been learning about renewable energy sources this week. Here are some of their amazing homemade wind turbines!

Today is the day we start our new courses. If you are taking Biology in S3, please check Show My Homework for the Google Classroom code and join. This week’s tasks have been uploaded in all Google Classrooms. We’re looking forward to another great year in Biology!

All tasks for the week have been posted in the relevant google classrooms. Any issues, you know where we are 😊