by John MWITA | Feb 6, 2020 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Secondary Science, The Grades
Grade 9 started a new unit this week, MOVEMENT. Guided by our statement of inquiry – movement enables humans and animals to change their surrounding for the better, we looked at how change in time and space over many years has impacted on our livelihood ....
by John MWITA | Feb 6, 2020 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Secondary Science, The Grades
Students continued working on their summative tasks on the atmosphere unit. This week they finished building their weather stations and models of the weather instruments. Using the assessment rubric for criterion B, students were able to refine their models, come up...
by Greg PERRY | Feb 4, 2020 | Grade 11, Secondary Science
As we continue to learn about certain parts of mammalian anatomy, we turned our focus to the heart today. I brought in a couple hearts form the butcher so that grade 11 biology students could see the way the heart functions. Students reported being to varying degrees...
by John MWITA | Jan 30, 2020 | Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Secondary Science, The Grades
This week in grade 11 we started a new topic, Oscillations and Waves. We looked at different oscillatory and periodic motions and used these to discuss Simple Harmonic Motion involving damping systems.
by John MWITA | Jan 30, 2020 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Secondary Science, The Grades
This week we continued on our third unit about the Atmosphere. Students have been building mini weather stations and different instruments used by meteorologists.
by Greg PERRY | Jan 28, 2020 | Grade 12, Secondary Science
The grade 12 students are nearing the end of their plant physiology unit. This week we found flowers and dissected them in order to better know their parts. The weather has been so cool the children wanted jackets to be outside early in the morning. In class they cut...
