Mrs Gardner ICT class christmas homework

Year 8:

Read pages:39 - 47 in the Green Book
Answer the questions in the White book on pages: 37, 39, 42, 43, 44, 45

If you do not manage to get this work done then you will complete it in the lessons. Once it is all done then you can continue with your website design. You will have three weeks left on this project after Christmas.

Mrs Gardner Biology Homework for the Christmas Holiday

Year 13:
Revise for resits. Elin and Zack I will still want you to do the Unit 4 Core Mock when you get back. We will stat the coursework in earnest after that.

Year 12: see separate post below.

Year 11:
Having completed the mock exam you may have realised areas where you are quite weak. My advice is to plan a few hours reviewing these areas. Do not relax this holiday, your real IGCSE is only 5 months away.

Year 10:
Complete the InfoQuest

Year 9:
Research and Endangered Species and produce a poster.

Have a great Christmas

Year 12 Christmas Holiday Homework

Remember due to our lessons being timetabled on a Monday and Friday we have effectively lost 3 weeks worth of lessons due to bank holidays and illness. Hence it is VITAL that you get this work done.

1) Complete The Heart and Health booklet (chapter 1.2)

2) Make notes and answer the questions on:
Balanced Diet (p. 48-49)
The Energy Budget (p. 50-51)(include diagram of the calorimeter)
Weight Issues (p. 52-53)

This work is to be completed by Friday 9th January. I will want to see all the notes in this lesson. Anyone not having the notes will be sent away.

IGCSE Biology definition test 2

Here is the Zombie attack I promised. Remember that I am following the syllabus and picking out all the "define" words...so you should have an idea of the words coming up.
This is a good test to do when you are feeling fed up of revising...go punch some zombies but you need to be quick or they will get you first!!!!

IGCSE Biology definition test 1

IGCSE Biology: Classification of living things

mrs gardners biology class homework

Year 13:
Revise Unit 4 Core for Mock Exam on Wednesday

Year 12:
Complete The Heart booklet for Friday

Year 11:
Revise loads and loads and loads of Biology for your Mock Exam

Year 10:
$0 minutes on your InfoQuest

Year 9:
research an endangered species and prepare a poster

Revision for Mocks

Hello Year 11!!!

Hope you are looking forward to your mock exams next week. Remember that your results from these exams will have a big influence on the decision to enter you for Extension or Core level so do not fall into the trap of "I want to see how I do without revising"....why? What does that prove?

One reason that mock exams exist is to encourage you to review your work so that you become more familiar with the topics. It also helps to highlight any areas of difficulty you may have, for example a number of people, having thought through their Biology, realise they don´t quite understand negative feedback..so have asked me for help IN ADVANCE!

I know it is difficult to get through all the revision you have to do (look at the PSHEplus blog for revison and study skills tips) so I have added some links below for you. These include all the Sciences and other subjects as well. Keep an eye out for more links in the next few days to some online games I am preparing on Biology topics and definitions.

http://kent.skoool.co.uk/index.aspx
These are online lessons but also include study and exam tips. Click on the key stage 4 tab and choose your subject.

http://www.s-cool.co.uk/index.html
another good site with revision notes and tests. You may need to register.

Remember that these sites are designed for GCSE so may include topics not in your IGCSE syllabus and also may omit some topics. So make sure you refere to your syllabus.

2009 Syllabuses can be found below:

Biology

Chemistry

Physics

There are also some past papers with mark schemes available in the syllabus links.

Good luck

Science Week 2008

Science Week was a great success. We had lighthouse building competitions in Year 9, Bridge-building competitions in Year 8 and Boat-building competitions in Year 7. We also had quizzes for staff and pupils, the Treasure Hunt and of course the hugely successful Mad Explosion event. Throughout the week Primary classes visited the labs to try out different experiments. KS4 and KS5 students acted as demonstrators and were very impressive as they guided the younger pupils through the different activities. All in all we had a great week.

Here are some comments made by Year 7:

Alun said:

One of the things I enjoyed was the treasure hunt. I did the treasure hunt with Alexandre. We found nearly all of the clues. The best thing about Science Week was the Mad Explosion Show. First was the volcano. The other one was with the jelly babies, she made them burn in a tube. My favourite experiment was when I blew through a tube and a big flame came out.

Egor wrote:

The Science Week was fun and it was interesting. The best thing that happened was the race with the boats. Our team boat came 3^rd because our sail broke and the boat could not sail. When we made the boat it was fun, we had a new experience and we worked as a team.

Max wrote:

During Science Week the Year 7’s learned lots of stuff and loads of new things. We had great fun!! When it was year 7´s turn to have fun we had to go into our team houses (Goya, Miro, Dahli and Picasso). We had a tray of supplies and we had to make a boat! Our boat was made out of plasticine, straws, plastic bag, cardboard. Our boat was like a raft and we painted it multiple colours and called it “the funky beavers” .

Jorge wrote:

I think Science Week was very fun especially the mad explosions. The first thing I am going to talk about is the ship making. I was doing a ship with Lewis, Alun, Tristan and Egor. I really liked it. The best thing of Science Week was the Mad Explosions. The first was the mini volcano. She put something in a pot then poured in another thing and another thing started to come out. It was like lava. Then it was the jelly baby. They put the jelly baby in a steaming hot test tube and it burned and disintegrated. Then they got some bombs and hit them with a ruler and they all exploded and some purple smike came out of the bombs.