Bonanza High School - Golden Visions Yearbook (Las Vegas, NV)

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Science Department Extends With New The entire Science Department under the direction of Virgil national Mining Congress. Sestini provided students with an in-depth knowledge of the In addition to their regular classwork, most science students scientific world. Special presentations were offered for excel- had to do abstracts of science magazines, enrichment assign- ling science students. Dr. Fiero, a geologist at UNLV, spoke at ments, and semester or year long projects. Chemistry students their fall honor social. Other activities were the spring honor did projects that dealt with the making of various substances, social and a trip to San Diego Zoo, Sea World, and the Wild Ani- some students even made bubble bath, toothpaste, and hand mal Park in May. Earth Science students also went to the Inter- lotion. Advanced Placement Biology ll students conducted pro- lub., D...-+ I A Ken Kenny and Cory Hill accurately record the results of the experiment in their data books. p Life Science students Beverly Webb and Dawn Douglas proudly display their unique cell models. pp Smit Intrapuvasak carefully performs a por- tion ofa serial dilution in Biology ll. fs. 'X ff 0 ego 154 science

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Benefit Advanced Students han's classes were involved in. These exercises aided them in onl statin the afletld d lt' lt lt l. developing their public speaking abiiities. Pat deClercq replaced Terry Frosini as the department chair- person. One item she and the other teachers were starting to prepare for was the competency test starting in 1982. This test will be taken by seniors before graduation. Those who pass will receive a diploma, but those who fail will receive a certificate y g y e ig sc oo instead of simply working with textbooks or listening to lec- tures, physical and emotional involvement was encouraged for English classes. By doing so, teachers hoped students would gain social and mental growth. A Harold Thomas, Juanita Carr, Yvette Sewell, and Shirley Slack make their selections from the books that have arrived for the Reading is Fundamental fFtlFJ program. Bonanza has the only federally funded RIF program in Las Vegas. 4 During an enactment of Hamlet in Mrs. deClercq's Shakespeare class, King Claudius may Behmj gives orders to Laertes fBob Pricej. english 153

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Projects, Teachers, and Equipment jects dealing with everything from micro-biology to botany. Each Zoology student had to collect 100 bugs. Physics stu- dents conducted various types of projects displaying laws and properties present in physics. Life Science and Biology l stu- dents constructed terrariums and cell models out of styrofoam and clay. The Science Department grew with more equipment, classes, and teachers. New equipment consisted of a micro- projector, a specto-photometer, a pH meter, and a volt meter. To accomodate for the expansion in the Science Department, three new teachers were added, Mrs. Baxley was a new Earth and Life Science teacher, Mr. Leigh was a new Earth Science and Biology I teacher, and Mrs. Orr was the new Chemistry teacher. ,if Dt rg t J. DONT FORCE T YOUR E OGGLES .Q K , I lj yf ,ff - if. if 1 'tr I f 4 ctr 3 if A Carol Reinhardt diligently works with her protozoan culture of Dileptus. 4 Chemistry students Dennis Gutwald and Frank Merola wear goggles to pro- tect their eyes trom toxic chemicals as they perform an experiment in a chem- istry lab. science 155