Browse to Moodle and look at the Immune System – Ted Talk Forum. Part 1. watch a TED talk about the human body – write a 3-4 sentence summary and post as a discussion item Part 2. Reply to 3…
Month: November 2013
disc9 – power generation
Questions 1-6, be prepared to answer in class next week. Do the list on the back of the sheet handed out in class. (q7)
Disc8 – Vancouver Sun
Vancouver Sun Log in with ID and password from the email. The week of November 13-16, 2013 are a series of articles about the immune system. Read them! First http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Modern+life+versus+microbes+obsession+with+clean+living+harming/9162014/story.html Second http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Clean+living+versus+healthy+life/9164059/story.html Third http://www.vancouversun.com/health/nightmare+microbes+could+spell+world+antibiotic+miracle/9155701/story.html Fourth http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Nightmare+Bacteria/9174251/story.html other articles http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Fighting+microbes+with+microbes/9159212/story.html
Di Sc8 – The Immune System
How does the immune system work? Why do we get vaccinated? How does that work? Make a vocabulary list of the new words – antibody, antigen, vaccine, … etc … How does your body fight infections? Please do some reading…
Di sc9 – Making Lights
Well, I thought it would be a cool idea to make lights in the same way that we made batteries (and that worked great!). But in the true sense of science, we failed. Not even one light. Phoooey! It is…
Destination Imagination – Sc8
destinationimagination.org Groups of 2-7, choose a challenge that we develop a solution to over the next 4 months. Present it in a competition setting in March (on a Saturday) and we go from there. Maybe we have a winner from…
Di sc8 – Ted talks
http://i-biology.net/category/ted-talks/ Look at some of the cool science going on. Our next topic area is immunology (how our bodies fight infection) Nobel Prize Winner talk (5 min) Brain Tricks #7 Keith Barry and #10 Ken Robinson
Di9 groups for light
Here are the groups
Battery competition
Make a battery that will give the highest voltage. Lemons More lemons… Potatoes Salt water Coke? Sprite… And the winner is….
Tuesday Nov.5
Di-sc9 :: A little light experimenting. How do we make a lightbulb? You were supposed to check it out at home. What do you need? AC or DC? Battery or straight from the wall? Does this affect the material choice?…