by Jorge Luis LOPEZ | Oct 22, 2015 | Secondary Science
Grade 12 IB Chemistry students started the always thrilling Organic Chemistry topic, nomenclature and functional groups. Grade 12 Biology started with Genetics and modeled meiosis for a more visual understanding of the process. Grade 11 Biology started with...
by Lina HURST-MAWASSE | Oct 14, 2015 | Grade 8, Secondary Science, The Grades
Grade 8’s new Science topic, ‘Speeding Up’, is off to a good start. We first learned how to calculate speed and had a go at comparing the speeds of different modes of motion (featured in the picture are the ever so popular Dora-The-Explorer hop...
by Jorge Luis LOPEZ | Oct 14, 2015 | Secondary Science
To celebrate the early weekend we built a mass spectrometer model with the IB Chemistry students. Magnets instead of electrodes and iron balls instead of charged gas particles in vacuum. Cannot get more geek than that (I think)!!
by Jorge Luis LOPEZ | Oct 8, 2015 | Secondary Science
Test time for most of the students, as we finish with some topics: Stoichiometry, Human Physiology, Coordination and response, Reproduction, Cells….. All being tested right now or early next week. Other topics are starting now, like grade 11 Biochemistry and...
by Jorge Luis LOPEZ | Oct 1, 2015 | Secondary Science
Intense week in Science. Two acid-base titrations, two osmosis investigations, voltaic cells and electrolysis, human Physiology and much more. It has been a tough week and as we finish the initial topics tests will be happening soon. No mercy. ...
by Lina HURST-MAWASSE | Oct 1, 2015 | Grade 8, Secondary Science, The Grades
In addition to an end of unit test, Grade 8 also undertook an investigation this week into starch in different types of food, such as potatoes, rice crackers and apples. A much more enjoyable task.
