Edsel Ford High School - Flight Yearbook (Dearborn, MI)

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Science wi . • t Revamped science program confuses sophomore classes Major, minor sequences offer wider variety to new students You mean I can’t take a whole semester of biology like my sister did? asked an incoming 10B student. No, not with the new science curriculum. As always, sophomores must decide whether they are going to take a major in science, a minor, or the minimum required amount of science. However, now their decision must be made immediately, because science majors and mi- nors take different sequences. Those who want only one or two years of science take a new general science sequence which condenses each course into 13 week periods. Students who major in science, on the other hand, take one year each of the same three courses. However, when photosynthesis, oxidation-reduction equations, and indexes of refraction appear, science majors tend to wish that they had taken the general science sequence instead; but, when they find themselves performing some of the same experi- ments that led to great discoveries, they change their minds. Who knows? Maybe there's an Einstein at Edsel Ford! Science Department. FRONT ROW: Mr. Stanley Smith, Mr. Jack Bridges, Mr. Alan Drake Mr. Arnold Domke (Reserve Basketball coach), Mr. Richard Hough. SECOND ROW: Mr. Mark Boersma (Department chairman and Science Club sponsor), Mr. Ltt Bartlett (School photographer), Mr. Arthur Konarske, Mr. Eugene Wozntak. Mr. Michael Materia, Mr. Joseph Mottillo. Absent: Mr. Alan Dawson (Cross-country and Track coach). Fascination seems unlimited when students first encounter slide rules. The large model slip-sticks, found in every science room provide a unique method of study for Bill Waite and Jackie Smith. D ' Ct Ik Sk Si Tt I 01 80 Ht« Vims'' n» “aat) 22 Staff and Academic Lif

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Studenti can always find help in the guidance ana. although they sometimes have to wait aufhile. Pat Baker waits to have a conference with Miss JoAnna Bielecki. Edsel's Visiting Teacher, who is busy talking to the school's Special Education teacher. Mr. Charles West.

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Ron beard, Edsd Ford’s exchange student from South Africa, makes a mi- cro-balance in his PS SC science doss. With just a straw, needle, and tongue depressor, he will weigh minute objects. Would you trust it? Natural Science I introduces six simple machines. Austin Barrett and Pam Moss experiment with one of them, the inclined plane. Hopefully, the rest of the physics unit will be just as interesting. Staff and Academic Life 23