by Lina HURST-MAWASSE | Sep 22, 2016 | Grade 12, Secondary Science, The Grades
Today was the first day of Topic 6 (Circular motion and Gravitation) for the Grade 12 Physicists. We started the new unit today with an experiment that uses the time period and height of our Physics Cow’s circular flight path to calculate the gravitational field...
by Lina HURST-MAWASSE | Sep 8, 2016 | Grade 8, Secondary Science, The Grades
Grade 8 learned about the structure of plant leaves this week in Science. After learning about the theory, we then carried out an experiment that allowed us to observe stomata on leaves from around the school grounds.
by Lina HURST-MAWASSE | Sep 1, 2016 | Grade 12, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Secondary Science, The Grades
G12 this week have continued to get to grips with the magical world of particle physics, looking at Feynman diagrams in particular which aim to visualise the interactions and decays of particles. The windows in the new building and the tables in the Science lab...
by Jorge Luis LOPEZ | Sep 1, 2016 | Secondary Science, Uncategorized
Is there anything cooler than a Biology student staining a specimen on a slide to observe it with a microscope? …the only thing would be a Biology teacher instructing them about how to make it happen. Lots of microscopy this week…..how exciting. Also...
by Jorge Luis LOPEZ | Aug 25, 2016 | Secondary Science, Uncategorized
…back to school. After an intense summer students are back in lessons either starting new topics or continuing their programs. Biology students started with optical microscopy or continued with a revision on plant Biology. Chemistry students started with...
by Lina HURST-MAWASSE | Aug 25, 2016 | Grade 11, Secondary Science, The Grades
This has been a great start for the Grade 11s to the IBDP Physics course. The whole class (all two of them) got stuck into the problem solving challenge and solved it successfully. We also discussed orders of magnitude and the size and age of the universe.
