The Life of a Genetic Mutation

My name is cystic fibrosis. I am a disease that changes how my hosts’ body makes mucus and sweat. She has a hard time breathing and she needs help unclogging her lungs that are filled with clods of mucus. She is constantly coughing and needs to carry around tissues to spit out any mucus that […]

Extracting DNA

In today’s lab we were extracting DNA from two fruits. We used a frozen strawberry, half a banana, rubbing alcohol, salt and soap for our experiment. First we started off by placing our two fruits into two different bags and mixed them with soap water and salt. We mushed our fruits together and created a substance […]

Van der Graff Genorator

The van der graff generator made static electricity by creating friction between a fabric belt, it rubbed together fast and made an electric charge. We had students try the generator and had them remove any metals.  They stood on a material to avoid the ground that was made up of metal elements and placed their hands on the metal […]

Science App Review

During science this unit our main focus is chemistry, as a visual learner having an application is a great way to help out with my assignments and study for upcoming tests and quizzes.   I downloaded an app called Periodic Table which has helped me complete my homework and identify elements on the Periodic Table. It […]

Science Lab- Testing For Vitamin C

  On Friday the class had a lab day using Vitamin C, Iodine and starch solution. Later in the experiment we mixed these substances in with five other liquids ( tea, Gatorade, etc.) to test for vitamin C  to find out the end result of each of the liquids. To start off our experiment we put […]

Forgum

The strategy we followed to organize and create patterns was complex and difficult. We first started by placing the gases on the top and put them in color code order. After that we sorted them out by the unknown reactions to reactions. During this process we noticed a pattern of colour, there were four black […]