In our current Grade 10 Environmental Science course, students have designed their own unit based on an area of interest and their subject choices for next year. This year’s class have broken into four groups: climate vs biodiversity, climate vs ocean and air currents, pollution & biomagnification, and invasive species vs biodiversity.

As part of the requirements for the unit, students must write a case study blog post, assessed using Criterion D: Reflecting on the Impact of Science, that explores an action taken related to their topic of choice. They were asked to look for some reliable sources, making the most of the blog format with suitable media and images. Successful blog posts teach the reader about the big ideas of their unit, through the lens of a specific case.

Here are some of their products: 

• Kaiki’s Mercury in Fish
• Fred’s Artificial Photosynthesis, Turning over a new leaf for solutions to Climate Change
• Kikoy’s The Great Wall of Rivers
• Kayla’s Golden Mussels Should Be Feared As A Monster!
• Takeharu’s Oh no! The Bluegill Army is Attacking!
• Michelle’s The Bald Eagle throws DDT — an outrageous move.  
• Doo Hyun asks how we can stop global warming?
• Natsuki’s “Bi Bi Fossil Fuel, Hello BioFuel”
• Juhaku’s Burmese Pythons costing citizens every year
• Mami’s MicroBeads
• Irma’s Plant a Tree; It’s Easy as One Two T(h)ree