Very short week!!

This week has been full of tests and theory…. And it has been short, so not much action happening in the lab other than the grade 12 internal assessment investigations. The aquarium is running smoothly for the moment, next to our still working mesocosm. Enjoy...

Very short week!!

This week has been full of tests and theory…. And it has been short, so not much action happening in the lab other than the grade 12 internal assessment investigations. The aquarium is running smoothly for the moment, next to our still working mesocosm. Enjoy...

Slime production and other business 

With the end of Organic Chemistry  with grade 10 we performed the Chemistry classic polimerization experiment: slime production from borax and polyvinyl alcohol. Then students were investigating the change of physical properties of the product of that reaction....

Half term!!

Last week before half term and we have been wrapping up lots of topics, form Organic Chemistry to Electricity, Biomolecules and Periodicity. Well done everybody and enjoy the break.          

Crude oil is in the air.

Well…this week in IB Chemistry we did a fractional distillation of crude oil in the lab. Thanks to Orpic for the sample provided, it will sort us out for the next few years. The characteristic smell of this important material filled the lab for a day and we were...