Research, Research, Research!

HIS Science students are working hard on all sorts of research!

Grade 7: Students chose their projects and what 2 body systems they wanted to research and began working on Research Questions #1-3. The students are excited to get to work on their "product," but first they need to find all sorts of information.

Grade 8: Students are finishing up their research on biomes and will begin putting it into a narrated Powerpoint slideshow this week. In class, we talked about the purpose of a Powerpoint and why it's important to limit the text on each slide. We discussed the KIS method (Keep it Simple!) and talked about how each slide should be a skeleton of the information. The "meat" should be filled in by the actual presentation.

Grade 10: This is the week! Energy Bars are officially due this Friday, along with their finished website. It is really "crunch time" (no pun intended...okay, it was!) and students will be very busy this week. The school-wide taste test is next week and students will have to produce over 90 samples of their finished product. Yum!

Grade 9: Students just finished up their "Science is Sweet!" project that it due today. Students used their knowledge of atoms and moles and their research on molar mass to figure out how many carbon atoms there were in a bag of sugar. This week they will be formally tested over their knowledge in a written test. Good Luck! Study Hard!