by Lina HURST-MAWASSE | Dec 8, 2016 | Grade 8, Secondary Science, The Grades
… The Grade 8s will now be able to understand this admittedly awful joke. This week we looked at balancing chemical equations as part of our current unit on metals and their reactions. The molymods helped visualise some of the chemical reactions we looked at and...
by Lina HURST-MAWASSE | Dec 1, 2016 | Grade 11, Grade 12, Secondary Science, The Grades
This has been a very busy but enjoyable day for our Grade 11 and 12 students. Once every two years, we run the Group 4 Project, an interdisciplinary Science project that focuses on team work and scientific method. This year’s topic was ‘Science on a...
by Lina HURST-MAWASSE | Dec 1, 2016 | Grade 11, Grade 12, Secondary Science, The Grades
This has been a very busy but enjoyable day for our Grade 11 and 12 students. Once every two years, we run the Group 4 Project, an interdisciplinary Science project that focuses on team work and scientific method. This year’s topic was ‘Science on a...
by Lina HURST-MAWASSE | Nov 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
Exciting times in the Science department! The new equipment order has finally arrived and the Grade 12 Physics students were amongst the first to use some of the items, building circuits to investigate the properties of ideal volt- and ammeters.
by Lina HURST-MAWASSE | Nov 10, 2016 | Grade 12, Secondary Science, The Grades
Grade 12 this week began studying resistance in electrical circuits. Part of their syllabus is to describe the current-voltage characteristics (and resistances) of different circuit components. They investigated how the current through a filament bulb changes with the...
