Demographic Transition Graphs

Students in several classes used their bodies or ropes to create giant demographic transition graphs on the floor of the classroom. Some groups had more success than others. Here is a picture of a group who were asked to use ropes.

ESS 12 Timber!

The ESS class, as part of their studies about population, took part in a role play where each student played the role of a member of one of the interest groups or stake holders in the rain forest of Lautasica. The cups on the floor represent the trees of the forest.



Link to ESS on the River Glog

Link to photo album for rockets, fieldwork and Timber!

ESS 12 to Halfway River

New year, new activities

All the students in ESY and ENS took part in a simulation titled Planet Transit. The aim of the simulation was to build up the economy without running out of land due to environmental degredation. This degredation was simulated by the loss of the foam cushions that the students stood upon.

Environmental Systems and Societies

All of the students from ESS 12 participated in the IB Group IV investigation. The focus was rockets and this year there was a wide variety of designs, propellants and of course success.

September in ENS and ESY

September is the month for field work at the local ponds. All the classes will be visiting the ponds to sample the biological and the physical factors of the various ecosystems. Each student will also be learning and practising the skills of observation while keeping a science sketchbook.

Sketchbooks and Environmental Studies

As part of their studies students will be using science sketchbooks to collect data as well as practising their skills of obervation. There have been sketching sessions while at Sherbrooke Lake as well as detailed observation activities with peer evaluation in the classroom. The most popular subject in the classroom has been the giant water bug that was found wandering on campus. The first image is a dragonfly nymph viewed using a document camera and an interactive whiteboard and the second is a picture of two students sketching in the class.

ENS and ESY at the Pond

The students of the ESY and ENS classes have completed their fieldwork at Long Pond and the Bio Pond. They have sampled the physical factors as collecting and sketching the organisms of the pond. Each student is now using the data that he or she has collected to write several lab reports and one is titled "Determining the Water Quality of Local Aquatic Ecosystems".

ENS Microclimate Work

The ENS classes went outside yesterday to investigate microclimates on the KES campus. The average temperature was about minus thirteen with a windchill of about minus twenty.

Science Sketch Book Sample Entries

Here are some sketches from the science sketch books of MY and KYW.

Labs for the Ponds

All classes are currently completing their lab reports for the pond ecosystems. The IB format is proving to be tricky for some and not so tricky for others.