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 Jorge Luis LOPEZ | Nov 17, 2016 | Secondary Science, Uncategorized
Finishing up topics in Science this week: Redox, Human Physiology SL, Forces and pressure, Nucleic acids and Periodicity. Students are in the process of being tested on these topics and new units will get started next week.
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...
by Jorge Luis LOPEZ | Nov 10, 2016 | Grade 9, Secondary Science, Uncategorized
This week the grade 12 IB students have been finishing the practical component of their internal assessment, so we have been extremely busy in the lab. Investigations ranging from water quality to using henna as an indicator, oscillating reactions producing...
