Creativity The painter stares out her window with ideas flying around like a tornado in her head. She reaches in and grasps on to one, and begins to work. She smears and splats smooth paint here and there, occupying her mind on the vacant canvas. She finishes and stands back to admire her creation, the wet paint drying into a…
Category: Grade 9
Statistics Project
Our project on statistics: Chapter 11 Project
Stars Presentation
Stars This is our presentation on stars and their life cycle. Throughout the presentation we had to use a space-related movie theme, and ours is the Martian.
Mutation Story – Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome
Part 1: Mutation Story I am the gene that caused Charlotte to have Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome. I’m the LMNA gene, and I’m supposed to be responsible for producing the protein lamin A (a protein which helps with the structural support of the nucleus), but unfortunately while I was being replicated, one of my cytosine’s was switched with thymine and I…
Froot Loop DNA
Today in Science we made a DNA code of a word to describe us.
Edible DNA Model
Today in science we made a strand of DNA out of twizzlers and marshmallows! This is ours:
Cell-fie! Cheek Cell Lab
Today we looked at our own cheek cells under a microscope. Here’s mine! To do this, we rubbed a toothpick on our cheeks in the inside of our mouths, and the rubbed it onto a slide. Then we placed a drop of methyl blue on the slide to stain the cells so that we’d be able to see them. This…
Earth Stop Motion
Here’s a stop-motion video on the Earth-
Solar System – Paris, France
In my scale, the sun is the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, and the Earth is the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Solar Systems are so big that it’s impossible for someone to even imagine how big or how far apart the planets are. So, to better understand the distances between the planets, we used a scale that’s much easier to…