Science and Technology
We offer thorough preparation to students wishing to pursue higher education in the sciences.
Our approach establishes a connection between the search for information, experiments, and theory. We work to help students develop:
- Scientific methodology and sound reasoning
- Critical thinking
- Environmental awareness
- A sense of wonder and a taste for discovery.
Different scientific skills and knowledge are developed in many compulsory science and technology courses from Secondary 1 to 4, as well as in optional courses:
- Environmental Science, in Secondary 4
- Physics and Chemistry, in Secondary 5
Options available at Villa Maria
This course includes the study of concepts, laboratory work and learning situations tied to four major areas: the material world, the living world, the earth and space, and the technological world. It is designed to help students develop scientific and technological literacy.
This course is supplementary to the basic science course, compulsory for all students. In addition to enabling students to expand on certain basic concepts, it stresses more detailed scientific and technological knowledge focused on environmental issues.
Physics explores, among other things, the basic components of the universe, their interactions, forces and effects. It aims to explain various phenomena and the laws which regulate them. It develops formal models to describe and predict how systems will evolve. The course includes rigorous use of mathematical techniques. During the framework of this course, students are required to go back and forth between theory and reality.
This course consolidates and expands on the students’ scientific training and is a prerequisite for many pre-university or technical programs offered at the college level. Unlike the other science courses taken by students, this is a monodisciplinary course focused on the material world. The compulsory chemistry concepts to be taught fall into 4 general areas: gases, energy changes, reaction rates and chemical equilibrium.
