10th Grade Post of the Week
We're off to a good start with many quality topics and discussion already. Kudos to those of you who completed your blog posts and responses in the first week! Without further adieu, our first Post of the Week for 10th grade goes to: Nathan for his

Magna Carta
In my opinion, the Magna Carta, signed by King John of England in 1215, was significant because it took complete power from the monarch and gave everybody equal rights. The ideas of the Magna Carta influenced the system of government in many countries

Grade 12 prospective students
Hi Guys, it was great to speak to so many interested students at the Ontario Universities Fair this past weekend. If you have any further questions about iSci, feel free to post them here, and current students will do their best to answer them honestly

WH10 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
Chapter 7 - The Industrial Revolution Begins 1750 -1850 Concepts: 1. How did the agricultural revolution contribute to population growth? 2. What new technologies triggered the Industrial Revolution? 3. Why was Britain the starting point for the

What grade system was employed?
I'm torn between what schools of approach to this issue to take. Some say that Usui taught a three level system such as Shoden, Okuden and Shinpiden. On the other hand, aetw says otherwise. http://www.aetw.org/reiki_grading.html Does anyone here

The crusades
The crusades (1095 A.D) introduced Europeans to a wider world. the crusades also led to increased trade and more powerful monarchs. The crusades was base in cross intersection, conquest and troops. The motives for the crusades was: to serve god, their

Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel was the inventor of dynamite. he was also a chemist an engineer, an innovator, and an armaments manufacturer. He was swedish. He was born in Stockholm on 21 October 1833, he went with his family to Saint Petersburg in 1842. When Alfred was 18

The Silk Road
The silk road or silk routes was a way of connecting Asia, Africa, and Europe. It helped culture and ideas spread from one place to the other, like for example if I was from Europe and I went through the road and saw something that I liked that a Chinese

Neolithic Revolution
Thanks to the agricultural revolution, we evolved from paleoloithic to neolithic eras. The neolithic agricultural revolution happened 11,000 years ago. The first people that learned how to farm were the nomadic bands that moved a lot, to look for food and

King Tut
Tutankhamun also known as King Tut was a minor King. He died when he was only nineteen years old, but the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun and its fabulous wealth has made King Tut one of the most famous Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt. King tut had 5 names

Attila the Hun
Attila was the leader of the Huns between 434 A.D. to 453 A.D.. He was the most feared enemies to the western and eastern Roman Empire. He was born 406 and later became the ruler of the Huns along with his brother. when he ruled he led his large army

9th Grade Post of the Week
The very first 9th grade post of the week goes to Chiara for her topic on the Caste System. Honorable mentions: Andy - The Discovery of America Andrew -The Dark Ages

History of Youtube
Youtube is one of the most well know websites in the world. In fact, It is the third most visited website today! There are proximately 490,000,000 people using Youtube worldwide each month! We spend about 2.9 billion hours on youtube per month!!! In 2005

Vocabulary from Chapter 10- The Byzantine Empire and Russia.
AUTOCRAT: sole ruler with complete authority. PATRIARCH: highest church official. ICON: holy imagine. STEPPE: open, treeless grasslands. BOYARD: great landowning nobles. CZAR: Russian word for Cesar ETHNIC GROUP: large group of people that shares

Tenochtitlan
Tenochtitlan was the capital city of the Aztec Civilization. Tenochitlan is located where present day Mexico city is. When people need to dig to make a skyscrapper they often find some artifacts of this lost city. this city was in the middle of lake