by Lina HURST-MAWASSE | Mar 24, 2016 | Grade 8, Secondary Science, The Grades
Grade 8 practiced their resilience this week in an experiment on the turning moments of a force. They applied their knowledge of calculating turning moments to predict how to balance weights on a ruler-seesaw.
by Lina HURST-MAWASSE | Mar 3, 2016 | Grade 9, Secondary Science, The Grades, Uncategorized
Grade 9 is currently studying nutrition and the digestive system for their IGCSE Science course. This week, we looked at the different components of our digestive system and how they all interact to allow our bodies to absorb the nutrients needed. ...
by Todd DAVIS | Feb 20, 2016 | Grade 8, Secondary Maths, Secondary Science, The Grades
Math is often involved in the news, but rarely to the scale of detecting Gravitational Waves and thus proving that they and blackholes exist! Ask any G8 math student, what a gravitational wave is, how it relates to mathematics, and why this is so amazing, and they...
by Lina HURST-MAWASSE | Feb 2, 2016 | Grade 9, Secondary Science, The Grades
As part of the IGCSE syllabus for Science, Grade 9 students are required to be able to describe the use of microorgamisms in the manufacture of yoghurt. This provided us with the opportunity to make yoghurt in the Science lab while learning about the fermentation...
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...
