SCIENCE
Under the able direction of Mrs Lydia
Year 7 Haiku Poetry: Food Webs in the
In Science, we studied a range of new
Roper-Willis and with the support and
home Uninvited guests, Creeping,
topics that opened our eyes. Generics
efforts of the Science Faculty, we have
crawling through rhe house. Where is all
gave us understanding of how we inherit
completed another successful year at Ave
the food?
characteristics, and how diseases are
Maria College.
Jessica Taylor
Everyone has worked hard to present
and homozygous, and yet studied these
coursework in a stimulating and
engaging manner, always striving to use a variety of assessment tasks to cater for
inherited. We learnt new (and big) words like autosomal recessive, heterozygous
Looking and searching,
concepts through making vegetable
people! Studying species survival and
These creatures scavenge for dinner,
chemicals in the environment gave us a
students.
How long will they wait?
great opportunity to take an excursion to
Activities undertaken to enhance and
Georgia Turville
rhe range of interests displayed by our
CERES Community Environment Park. develop student interest and challenge
The weather was gorgeous and many informative experiments were conducted
their thinking included:
Big, big harvestmen, Melbourne Zoo - Year 7 Holding babies in their mouths.
Art Gallery of Victoria -Year 9
Eating when they're gone.
to give us a more complete view of how humans impact the environment. To
finish rhe semester, we left the earth and looked amongst the stars. We studied the
life of stars (such as our sun), and
Science Works - Year 8
Vanessa Surace CERES -Year 10
compared different theories of how the
universe exists. Uninvited house guests,
Alyssa Donald 10C
Marine Studies Centre at Queenscliff Looking to eat other pests,
Year 1 1 Biology Many students also participated in the
Using mortein gets rid of them.
Recently we added a little bit of drama to
Krystal Nasr
our Science class. We were given the task
Australian Schools Science Competition
of putting on a role-play on disease. We
and performed very well.
The role of Science in Society has never been more important with huge advances
in Medicine, Genetics and Technology. It is imperative that our students are given
the opportunity to discuss and
ended up with people having babies,
Year 10 Excursion to CERES
extremely geeky professors and covered
The Year 10 "Earth, Universe and Life"
with weird looking spots. Anyone
Science class went to CERES community
watching may have thought what has this
environmental park for some insight into
have to do with science! But behind rhe
water quality, in particular the state of
scenes a lot of hard work went into
the Merri creek.
researching the cause of certain diseases
and how to treat them. Watching these
investigate these areas and are aware of
We studied rhe lower catchment area and
the implications. The Human Genome
conducted physical and chemical tests to
performances was a lot of fun. Performing
project has been of particular interest to
see if the water was polluted. We also
our role-play on Malaria was one of the
both Year 12 and Year 10 classes studying
studied how the creek changed over the
best projects of rhe year.
Genetics. It has led to wide discussion
past few decades and the diversity of
and analysis.
species found in the surrounding area.
From this research we have gained an understanding of rhe great impact
Students at various levels have shared
human activity has on rhe Merri creek
their experiences and contributed rhe
and the environment surrounding it.
following reflections.
Thanks to Mr Dunlop, Mrs Gianni and
Mrs Maria Gianni
Mrs Brasher.
Science Coordinator (Term 4)
Becci Prenc 10R
60 Ave Maria - Vidian 2000
Jacinta Nash 8B
