Baker High School - Buff Yearbook (Baker, LA)

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B.H.S. science classes snowball Science is snowballing — from the first scientific milestone (the invention of the wheel) to the latest (the many orbits of Gimini 6). This indomitable snowball, as prolific as a fruit fly, forms not one enormous mass called “science,” but an astronomical number of “sciences” called zoology, metallurgy, electronics, oceanography — to infinity! Just as this snowball gets constantly bigger and increasingly specialized, so does Baker High’s science department go from Louis Wilkinson wonders how electrolysis can separate water into two teases, hydrogen and oxygen. generalities to specifics. With three years’ background of “general science” (a bit of every—ology and —graphy) comes an understanding of our solar system, our earth, our flora and fauna, and ourselves. Onward to specificity—to dissection of frogs in biology, to diatomic molecules in chemistry, and finally to disintegration constants in physics. Science courses at Baker are among the most challenging, because the student learns by experimentation—proving to himself and for himself the laws of nature. Howard Chancy and Bruce Bcateau find that understanding the rotation of the earth on its axis and the subsequent change from day to night is not hard, when its is demonstrated. As part of her Science Fair Exhibit, De De Pugh demonstrates how a submarine floats, while her Looking at microscopic organisms with a micro-projector gives classmates watch. biology students a more complete understanding of microbes. 28

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Gayle Johnson finds that some math problems require not only a knowledge of math, but also common sense. Mike Kopp shows his skill in Trig. Debby Meares gets help from Mr. her seventh grade math class how Payne while she demonstrates to to use a number line. Reviewing returned tests helps students learn by their errors. 27

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The inclined plane presents a confusing problem to physics students —Ronnie Baily, Curtis MeGrew, Philip Hagan, and Woody Felps. Dyan Laird and Elizabeth Taylor discuss what apparatus is needed for the experiment testing the reaction of potassium with water. Kenny Sandifer. Darlene Seguin, and Johnny Wales know that the best way to learn the properties of hydrogen is through laboratory experiments. Using X-rays, one of the miraculous discoveries in medicine, Mr. Bacot lectures on bone structure and on bone fractures. 29