Last day to submit outstanding work!

Monday June 2nd is the FINAL day to hand in all outstanding assignments! This will also be the last day to write any missed exams.

Paper ball Fight over Health Science Careers

Today in Health Science we started a Career Exploration Project. To brainstorm different HS careers we had a paper ball fight. As one student said, it was nice to be able to do this and not get in trouble.

Ready, Set, GOOOO! (The Balloon Cars are BACK!!)

Today in Science 10, we raced our balloon cars. Ranging from an A and W cup car to a frozen dinner cardboard box car to a pop bottle car, the creativity of this semester's cars was awesome! The results were fairly impressive too, with the farthest distance travelled being 5m! The fastest car to cross the 3 m line was Joel, Connor, and Tyler's popsicle car. Above is our Science 10 class and our cars.

Experiment with Fat

The Health Science 20 class has spent some time recently learning about macronutrients, including lipids. In order to learn what foods contain lipids, and in what amounts we brought in a variety of foods from home to test. Using just a brown paper bag we tested foods like cheese, processed meat, cookies, granola bar, nut butters, chocolate, fruit, etc. When the results were in, all of the foods we tested contained some level of fat, with the exception of the marshmellow and fruit. Cheese contained the greatest amount of fat leaving in one experimental group, a grease stain that measured 8 cm across!!! Here is a before and after picture of our experiment with fat.

Cookie Mitosis Activity

As a unique form of assessment, students in Biology 30 got to model the phases of cell division using cookies and sprinkles. Students used sprinkles to represent the chromosomes and a different color of sprinkles for the centriole pairs. The white icing served as the cytoplasm to be divided. In total, six phases were shown: Interphase, Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase, and Cytokinesis. Shown below is the final product.