Year 9 Science - Modelling Radioactive Decay Practical
This term, as part of their Chemistry Unit, Year 9 students are learning about Isotopes, Radioactivity and Types of Radiation. Students conducted an experiment, which enabled them to examine the exponential nature of radioactive decay and find its half-life. The practical also demonstrated the probability which will be used to simulate the radioactivity of an element and the rate of its decay. It also assisted students to collect group and class data to interpret and analyse as well as represent their findings in a table and graph.
VCE Biology Unit 1- Frog & Rat Dissection
In our Unit 1 Area of Study 2, students explored how do plants and animal systems function. Students completed a frog and rat dissection, exploring how systems function through cell specialisation in digestive, endocrine, and excretory systems in animals. This opportunity provided students to compare the different systems of the rat/frog to that of a human. Despite the difference in size, students were able to see the basic structure and organisation of the two mammalian systems were similar. This unit provided the students an insight to explain and compare how cells are specialised and organised in plants and animals, and analyse how specific systems in plants and animals are regulated.
VCE Psychology Unit 1- Brain Dissection
In our Unit 1, students have been investigating the structure and functioning of the human brain and the role it plays in mental processes and behaviour and explore brain plasticity and the influence that brain damage may have on a person’s psychological functioning. Students completed a brain dissection to understand the roles of the hindbrain, midbrain, and forebrain, including the cerebral cortex, in behaviour and mental processes. As part of the unit, students also explored the impact of acquired brain injury by describing the biological, psychological and social impacts of a frontal lobe injury and spatial neglect because of stroke.
