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Physics Lab Tour and Safety Guidelines

The document outlines a series of tasks for students at St. Katherine Secondary School related to a physics laboratory tour for parents and guardians. It emphasizes the importance of safety rules in the lab following a recent fire incident at a neighboring school, and encourages students to reflect on potential causes and preventive measures. Additionally, it discusses guiding a sibling in choosing suitable physics-related career paths, highlighting the benefits and challenges of various options.

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Physics Lab Tour and Safety Guidelines

The document outlines a series of tasks for students at St. Katherine Secondary School related to a physics laboratory tour for parents and guardians. It emphasizes the importance of safety rules in the lab following a recent fire incident at a neighboring school, and encourages students to reflect on potential causes and preventive measures. Additionally, it discusses guiding a sibling in choosing suitable physics-related career paths, highlighting the benefits and challenges of various options.

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ST.

KATHERINE SECONDARY SCHOOL

PHYSICS DISCUSSION QUESTIONS


ITEM 1:
During the visitation at your school parents and guardians flooded the
school compound and as part of school way of promoting their school to
the outside community you are one of the few students selected to show
the parents around the school laboratory. Whereas inthe laboratory many
apparatuses were organized to be displayed to the parents and guardians
who were eagerly waiting to see how well their learners have attained
knowledge and skills while at school.

SUPPORT MATERIALS / RESOURCES

TASK
a) You have been selected as one of the few students to guide parents
and guardians through
Laboratory Tour. Organize the speech you are going to present to the
presents about the
Physics Laboratory and don’t forget to inform them of the rules and
regulations they must abide by as they enter the laboratory for the tour.

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b) As the second part of your presentation, you are required to organize
each apparatus labelled above write down its name and briefly explain its
real-life applications.

ITEM 2:
It is always best, to follow all safety rules while in the laboratory because
unforeseen accidents could happen in a blink of an eye. People could get
hurt. Maybe even die, if safety rules are ignored. No one needs to get hurt.
No one needs to die, because of stupid mistakes.
This evening we received bad news from our neighbouring school about
Fire outbreak that started from the physics laboratory and many school
properties were destroyed in the process.

SUPPORT MATERIAL

Figure showing Moi Girls’ school Kenya gutted by fire


TASK
From the above speech and figure what do you think could have been the
cause of fire outbreak in the Laboratory?
What improvements and safety precautions can we make to avoid such
dangers from repeating itself in our school environment?

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ITEM 3:
Your elder brother has just received his S.6 results and he scored AAA
(perfect triple A) he is soon going to apply for a course on Bachelors’
degree level at Uganda’s greatest University, Makerere University. Your
brother is however not sure of which career path he should apply for. He
needs someone to guide him through the right career opportunities he can
pursue in the future.
SUPPORT MATERIAL

TASK:
Write down how you can help your brother in identifying all possible
suitable physics careers he can pursue at the university (try to be
convincing by telling him also some challenges and benefits in some of the
careers available

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