by Lina HURST-MAWASSE | Jan 14, 2016 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Secondary Science, The Grades
Grade 7 investigated digestion in Science this week. To help us visualise the path taken by food through our body, we modelled the function of a number of different digestive organs to ‘digest’ some baked beans and biscuit. The mouth (hands in a beaker)...
by Lina HURST-MAWASSE | Jan 5, 2016 | Grade 8, Secondary Science, The Grades
This week in Science, Grade 8 started looking at inheritance and variation, as well an inherited and environmental characteristics. They created mini-monsters (of the Reebop species) out of marshmallows, basing their features and characteristics on the genetic...
by Lina HURST-MAWASSE | Dec 17, 2015 | Grade 12, Secondary Science, The Grades
We had Canadian Santa visiting today’s Grade 12 lesson. Grade 12 learned about mass-energy equivalence and Einstein’s famous equation E = mc^2. Not an easy topic, especially not in the last lesson of the term, but Grade 12 cheerfully worked their way...
by Lina HURST-MAWASSE | Dec 10, 2015 | Grade 12, Secondary Science, The Grades
Grade 12 investigated radioactive decay this week. The foam head of (obviously non-alcoholic) beer follows the same pattern in the bursting of its bubbles as radioactive particles in their decay. Their results produced a beautiful decay curve, which they will...
