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_ Sclence at Skeena Secondary. In pictures above 3 Audrey Troelstra checks an electron orbital

unit; Vicki " Redmond and Susanne Kumpolt inspect an onlon ©

root tip grown in a plant table under ultra-violet Heht; and Lane Koster and Casey Vandenboer run a _test to measure acceleration down an inclined plane.

STUDENTS MAKE OWN DISCOVERIES

-New-look science ‘program

‘By CINDY LOEWEN Mother may hot be too pleas~ ed about the new science cour- ses in the high school. when Junior comes -home and announe- es he has discovered several varteties of bacteria onthe fresh

ly washed kitchen floor. —~ Junior may be able to st off the full Latin names of those bacteria as well, Junior is ob- viously learning something from

the new emphasis in high school,

science courses, : Join Chen Wing, head of the “selence’ department at Skeena

new’ propran’ as ‘making use of

sclentific investigation and: in- auiry on the’ part of the student,

The practical and experimen- tal point of view will allow the students to carry ont their own experiments and prove their own

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. “The theories, might have been

proved thousandsof times before,

but’ the students have never done it.: They don’t really know about it,’ Chen Wing said, ©

“The ol@ course made more. use of demonstrations, Some of the textbooks we were using had not been updated since 1952,"

Once the students have com< pleted their own experiments “they.are much better prepared to understand the concepts. They go through the process and gain insight into the problem,’?

‘The new program: will be im troduced into the school gradeby grade including the fields of bio | q logy, chemistry, pliysics and re- fated subjects.

Because of the practical ap proach to student Learning much more equipment is needed to pro- vide adequate means for each stu dent to carry out: his OWT” EX~ periments,

As a result of the new Bto- gram the students get much more motivation. They can actually do

something rather than sit and

Listen to someone lecture, It is'a dynamic way o of teaching. ”

The namber of stslents ineach

| lence,

tinued. ‘Trips will he arranged |

at Skeena

Teachers will also, bebusy eat-

to Alcan, the> lava beds in’ the/ching up. with ‘the. new look in Nass valley, the hospital labor-| science teaching, The Depart- atory and other placea where|ment of Education.is working to- everyday application of the laws | ward the complete revision ofthe discovered in the laboratory-are|science courses, grades 1

being put to use,

| through 12.

A workshop for

Students -who have a special; clementary teachers: . will be interest tn science are already held. in Terrace on Dec, 6 and 7 busy making their own practical | to acauaint elementary teachers

applications of laboratory exper: | With the new approach,

Although several of the up

The: 5th’ Annual Terrace| dated courses are now offered

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at jrade’” ae range from 30 to 36 andnot more | than 24 students in classes atthe grade 11 and 12 level, Scheduling for the new “grade. 10. Scferice course has ~- been arranged throughout the year to allow for maximum use of specialized teas chers and equipment, . ..

“This progranr is ‘brand new to most of the teachers as we! Chen Wing said. “It involves-a great deal -more work on the ‘teacher's part,”

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With the ‘emphasis on inves. tigation and the use of scien- tific techniques, textbooks will all but disappear ‘trom . the. class- room. Instead -of memorizing laws and equations ‘the student |: Will participate in the discovery of the laws :and equations. Re- ferences will be used to sup- plement and expand concepts stu. dents have -discovered on their

wertela trips are also.a part of the program,’’ Chen Wing co n=

Forget self

more peaceful world |

“| Med leaders as had been among

. By Rev. &D.-Watts: *. [have recently been ‘reading a book called the ‘Last Battie’ hy Cornelius Ryan — dealkig with the last battle of the second world war and the race for Ber- lin, One wonders with theamount ‘of political Intrigue going on in Higher places for the capture of the German capital whether some of the allied leaders were much better 4s persons than. some of their German counterparts, Jeal- ousy for the lion's share was as

much evident sng some. al-

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Hitler’s entourage..

It is this week of November 1ith that we are ‘supposed to remember those who have died} : for the cause of-peace, May they not have died-in yain, May our own jealous ambitions, wheth- er we live in higher echelons or lower echelons, -not: be the cause of: people dying in -vain, For we. can only rightfly re member -a sacrifice by partici: ating some way init.

Science Fair willbe: held in| at the school it will besome class has been decreased allow- |'the early spring next year and for

, ie for more vidual ta | Secondary Schodl, explaing the ing. fo ore indi contact | students are already working ol

time before the complete revision car ve Antegrated throughout the schoo!

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