by John MWITA | May 18, 2020 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Secondary Science, The Grades
Balloon powered cars! This week Grade 9 have been putting their creativity skills into developing balloon powered cars using simple materials such as balloons, paper cups, plastic straws and rubber bands. By using Newton’s third law of motion which states that...
by John MWITA | May 18, 2020 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), The Grades
Grade 11 started a new topic on Circular motion and Gravitation. This past week our focus was on circular motion including centripetal force and centripetal acceleration. We talked about how a change in velocity results in an object’s acceleration while in...
by John MWITA | Apr 30, 2020 | Grade 10, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Secondary Science, The Grades
As we transition into DP, this week in science we reviewed graphing and interpreting scientific data. Students completed tasks on drawing best fit lines, interpolation and extrapolation. Students were able to plot graphs and explain trend lines. They also identified...
by John MWITA | Apr 22, 2020 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Secondary Science, The Grades
This week we built on our previous discussion about the principal of superposition to explain how standing waves are produced on strings and pipes. In relation to waves on string (transverse waves) and vibration of air molecules to produce sound (longitudinal waves),...
by John MWITA | Apr 7, 2020 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), The Grades
Grade 11 continued to look at Wave Behavior this week where we discussed path difference and conditions for constructive and destructive interference.
