Potomac High School - Prowler Yearbook (Dumfries, VA)

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Snowing In school? Not quite. After a year of learning Accounting, the class put its skills to use on a project that would last eight weeks. Mrs. Haun told them they could release their frustrations when it was all over, and Andy Dearing does just that by tearing up his project. Academic Divider

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Academics Students often made the discovery that class activities included more than just bookwork. Classes often took time out for something different. Students delved into the world of science through research and science Fair pro¬ jects and dissection of pigs and rabbits in Biology, while government classes allowed them to assert their political tendencies in mock elections and de¬ bates. Mrs. Polk ' s and Ms Stulz ' s classes also experimented in playing the stock market. Foreign Language classes per¬ fected their speaking skills by perform¬ ing in dramas and skits then celebrat¬ ed by gorging themselves at fiestas complete with ethnic food and music. P.E. classes took CPR as a required sub¬ ject and some instruction in the uncon¬ ventional subjects of bootcamp train¬ ing and squaredancing. So students found that schoolwork didn ' t have to mean “bookwork . Special activities from food fairs to CPR broadened the student ' s experience in the range of each subject. In preparation for a new paint job, Tim Abei uses a power sander to strip off the old paint of a car fender in Auto Body. A group of Biology students stand facinated as a boa constrictor strangles a rat to eat for lunch. Academics Divider

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Brain Work! of (x)= 13, (a-b) (a + b)= a 2 -b 2 . If you have taken a math course above General Mathma- tics, then you ' ve seen an equation that looks either like this or something to this effect. Equa¬ tions like this are also used in many science class¬ es ranging from Chemistry to Physics. Many math and science teachers require the students to repeat and memorize the fundamen¬ tals to aid them in recalling them later when re¬ quired. Some things Mr. Bass taught us on the first day of school we still use.” commented Den¬ ise liber. Ask most students and most will say they ' ve taken at least one math and science course. There is a wide diversity of available classes to suit a student of any capability. The memoriza¬ tion might be boring, but the diversity helps inter¬ est students in expanding their math knowledge. Under the hood, a crucible of chemicals is heated to produce a reaction as Carol Chase observes. Jamie Jewett examines a specimen through a micro¬ scope in her Biology class. Algebra 1 part 1 student Theresa Stitts keeps her mind on her work and solves equations. Math And Science