In Science 9 we spent our class building models of atoms. We have been busy studying matter and the different historical models that were proposed by such scientists as Dalton, Thomson, Rutherford, and Bohr. Can you guess what this atom is? HINT: Yellow represent electrons, Red represents protons, and green represents neutrons.
Is it A....B....AB....O? Are you positive or negative? In Health Science, students were given 4 patients with unknown blood types. Using simulated blood, students used the simple agglutination test to determine what Mr. Jones, Mr. Green, Mr. Smith, and Ms. Brown's blood types were. Here are some pictures of us being medical lab techs. It sure looks like Mr. Smith is A+!
For the past three weeks, the Biology 30 Period 5 class has had the pleasure of being taught by Mrs Jamieson, a third year U of R student. While at MCS, Mrs Jamieson taught the Cell Structure and Function Unit. Here she is seen doing a demo about heat shock and the cell membrane.
Over the past few days we have been studying different health care philosophies available to Canadians as part of the new Health Science 20 course. Aside from Western Medicine, we have looked at Indigenous, Traditional Chinese, and Complementary and Alternative Medicine. What is more exciting is that we have gotten to practice each of the different health care philosophies. On Wednesday this week we had Amy Lopinski teach Yoga as a form of CAM and today, we had Tim Oehler teach Tai Chi. When we return from the break, medicine man, Hugh Lerat, will be here to share Indigenous Medicine with us. Check out our attempt at these different healh care practices.
Today in Health Science we concluded our diagnostics and treatment unit by simulating how a microscope would be used to diagnose a patient's illness. In the simulation, students pretended to be epidemiologists studying a fictional gastrointestinal epidemic at MCS. After analyzing several patient's case studies, we concluded that the illness originated with the fruits and vegetables they had eaten from the cafeteria. To determine the source of food contamination, we analyzed FAKE stool samples.....yes fake POOP (made from molasses, coffee grounds, gelatin, and water). Yeast, to represent Cholera, was found in the affected stool sample. We could see the pathogen under the light compound microscope after initial examination under the dissecting microscope. Here are some pictures from today's lab.
