Everyone’s potential rises when we choose to celebrate each other’s success! In every broadcast, The Grade 8 Science/Math class has decided to celebrate a classmate(s) who exemplifies an IB learner profile attribute.
The world of science is about investigation, observation, and wondrous discovery. It’s exactly these kinds of learning experiences our modern students crave.
As teachers, we can ensure science remains an exciting and often magical subject for our learners. There’s no better way to do this than with simple but highly creative inquiry-based learning science activities that challenge and inspire enriching learning.
This week, we celebrate Julia Alvarez. She was curious to find out whether matter can change directly from the solid to gaseous state without going through the liquid state. Our unit of inquiry is based on how we can change matter to make it more useful.
She led the experiment of heating Iodine crystals and the class observed as it sublimed and formed a purple colored dense vapor.
#COOLFACT# Solid carbon (IV) oxide is used by ice cream vendors to keep the ice cold because it sublimes!