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THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1978

SEMINARS ON CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE SYLLABUS FOR CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS

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TWO SEMINARS ON THE CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE SYLLABUS FOR CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAY (APRIL 29) MORNING.

ORGANISED BY THE SCIENCE INSPECTORATE OF EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, THE SEMINARS AIM TO INTRODUCE TO SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS OF CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS THE IDEAS AND CONCEPTS IN TEACHING THE CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE SYLLABUS.

SOME 170 TEACHERS WILL TAKE PART IN THE CHEMISTRY SEMINAR TO BE HELD AT DIOCESAN BOYS' SCHOOL, ARGYLE STREET, KOWLOON.

PARTICIPATING TEACHERS, APART FROM ATTENDING LECTURES AND DISCUSSIONS, WILL HAVE OPPORTUNITIES TO PERFORM SOME OF THE EXPERIMENTS SUGGESTED IN THE NEW SYLLABUS. THERE WILL ALSO BE A DISPLAY OF CHEMISTRY TEXTBOOKS AND REFERENCE BOOKS AT THE SEMINAR.

THE CHEMISTRY SEMINAR WILL START AT 9.30 A.M. AND MR. ARTHUR BROWN, CHIEF INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS, WILL DELIVER THE OPENING ADDRESS. THIS WILL BE FOLLOWED BY AN INTRODUCTORY TALK BY MR. W.M. TANG, SENIOR INSPECTOR (CHEMISTRY). MR. K.M. MOK, NEW TERRITORIES HEUNG YEE KUK YUEN LONG DISTRICT SECONDARY SCHOOL, WILL DELIVER A LECTURE ON +SYLLABUS OBJECTIVES AND CONTENTS+, DR. J.B. HOLBROOK, SCHOOL OF EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, WILL OUTLINE THE +TEACHING METHOD ILLUSTRATED BY THE TEACHING OF EQUATIONS+. THE SEMINAR WILL END BY 1 P.M. FOLLOWING AN EXHIBITION ON PRACTICAL WORK (LABORATORIES).

THE SEMINAR ON PHYSICS WILL ALSO TAKE PLACE ON SATURDAY AT 9.30 A.M. AT THE WA YING COLLEGE, SHEUNG WO STREET, HO MAN TIN, KOWLOON. ABOUT 160 TEACHERS WILL ATTEND THIS SEMIÑAR,

TALKS, DISCUSSION AND DEMONSTRATION OF PRACTICAL WORK WILL INCLUDE SUCH SUBJECTS AS +WAVES AND OPTICS+, +MECHANICS AND HEAT+, +ATOMIC PHYSICS+, AND ELECTRICITY+. THERE WILL ALSO BE AN EXHIBITION AND DEMONSTRATION OF HOME-MADE APPARATUS.

NOTE TO EDITORS:

YOU ARE INVITED TO SEND YOUR REPRESENTATIVES TO COVER THE TWO SEMINARS ON SATURDAY, BOTH STARTING AT 9.30 A.M. THE CHEMISTRY SEMINAR WILL BE HELD AT DIOCESAN BOYS' SCHOOL, ARGYLE STREET, AND THE PHYSICS SEMINAR AT WA YING COLLEGE, SHEUNG WO STREET, HO MAN TIN.

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