North Side High School - Legend Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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These students listen intently as Mr. Feller tells the Salem witch Sociology can be very interesting as you can see by Mr. Eldrige and his class trials. Mr. Henderson shows Ed Claymiller a geographic map in his government class. Social Studies 21

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Techniques vary in social studies A variety of techniques, including class dis- cussion, lectures, projects, audio visual mate- rial, and field trips, were used in teaching history. Mr. Ken Miller explained, v i try to teach so students can learn bec ause of mu- tual motivated interest. Forty students enrolled in the Learning Al- ternatives Room where students were taught on a much more individual basis, said depart- ment head Mr. Don Evans. The class shows students How the U.S. was developed from past to present, and stressed the different periods of history in re- lation to their problems and how they were solved and relate to our problems today, stated Mr. Miller. The class shows how our world today is functioning and how our lives might be in the 21st century. According to Mr. Eldridge, sociology classes studied different cultures in our so- ciety, the individual and how he ' s affected by society and other aspects of human behavior. Criminology, taught by Mr. Heath, studied famous crimes and criminals. rt grtj i Mrs. Otte explains to her class just what the study of anthropology is all about. Mr. Omerod explains what makes the individual in his psychology class. 20 Social Studies

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New and harder materials for math The Math Department, headed by Mr. Robert Lovell, was enlarged with the addition of Mr. David Bierbaum full time, since the number of math classes increased from 28 to 31. Advanced algebra, trigonometry and geom- etry have been offered since North Side ' s first year. Through the years, six additional classes were added, ranging from basic math, for students with computational problems, to advanced math, which is an introduction to calculus. Analytic geometry was for college- bound students, while survey of math and fundamental courses in geometry and al- gebra were less rigorous. Introduced this year was a computer math class. Four computer terminals were installed to help teach the programming language and how to write and run computer programs. Mr. Bierbaum ' s geometry class discusses the number of sides there are to a geometric design. Sophomores Bob Allison and Nancy Ashley do a little explaining on the board in Mr. Hey ' s math class.