PHYSICS FOR U6 SCE. FLUIDS AT REST
WEEK BEGINNING 23RD TO 27TH MARCH 2020
MR HELES
(Students should go to attached documents to get this lesson)
King David comprehensive college has a fully operational science department. This department is sub divided into:
The chemistry department has a well equipped laboratory where students are being prepared for A-Level 0715 Chemistry practicals. Here Students carry out practicals twice a week after classes during which they are drilled in both quantitative and qualitative analysis. Candidates are prepared to recognize and recall specific chemical facts, principles, methods, terminology and chemical laboratory techniques. They should be able to explain and interpret specific chemical facts and laboratory observations. Our laboratory masters train them to apply chemical knowledge to familiar and eventually to unfamiliar situations and to plan simple laboratory investigations. They should be able to equally use familiar and unfamiliar chemical data in diagrammatic, graphical, numerical, symbolic and verbal forms, and to translate chemical data from one form into another. During evaluations that are conducted six times during the year, they use chemical facts and principles to predict likely outcomes of events, compare effects of factors, compare theories and determine the validity of chemical laws. Our entire goal is to enable our students to organize chemical knowledge and present it clearly and also to communicate in an appropriate and logical manner. Field work is one of the preoccupations of the chemistry department. Students carry out field work as far as to the South West Region to visit the SONARA oil fields, Delmonté Banana farms and factories, brewery factories here in Douala city, etc.
The 0710 A-Level Biology science laboratory is equally well equipped and functional in King David Comprehensive College. We place emphasis on the fact that Biology is not to be studied in isolation; it should be related, in the widest sense, to the needs of people. Relevant and important aspects of modern life are highlighted throughout their studies. This is done through an appreciation of impact of biotechnology, the position of human beings in the biosphere and their effects upon it. In so doing we give the students an understanding of the biological principles and concepts that underlie:
In the course of evaluating the students we take into consideration the following aspects:
King David is one of those schools that which to make a difference in the field of mineral exploitation. We offer high school course in Geology and a laboratory has been set up to adequately handle the practical aspects of this subject. We attempt to develop in our students an appreciation of the distinctiveness of Geology as a major science in its own right, and particular in the scale of geological space and time. All our studies would be in vain if we fail to implant in the student the importance of geology to man and that awareness of the earth’s resources. Field work is an essential aspect of their studies. Students carry out a three day outdoor studies into the cliffs and valleys to have a glance on natural elements like rock types and how they present themselves to us. A good number of fossils, minerals, crystal samples and models are presented and are being used in the laboratory during practical sessions.
The 0780 Physics laboratory is equally fully being used by the students. The laboratory is equipped to facilitate the practical aspects of their studies. Here students are taught through the development of observational, manipulative and processing skills. We do our best to stimulate students’ interest in and encourage them to appreciate the operation of concepts and principles of physics in technological applications and their social and economic implications in the society. We also help the students to develop and derive some enjoyment and satisfaction from their study of physics through fieldwork (in their immediate environment and beyond), the design of experiments and interpretation of results. We have succeeded and still look forward to hold onto the issue of demystifying traditional beliefs on certain issues in life that physics clearly explains through practicals in the laboratory.
King David Comprehensive College is happy to stand head high to promise a balanced education in the science department in the second cycle for students who wish to take this branch of education. This does not in any way diminish the arts departments. The Arts departments still command its own position in its own right.
