Breck School - Mustang Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

Page 33 text:

This stew ought to be done soon Mr. Nielsen demonstrates the use of a mi croscope. Multiple choice? Brcck's Mr. Wizard performs an experiment. 29 Mr. Peter Johnson, alumnus, assists in the science department.

Page 32 text:

SCIENCE Having already incorporated the PSSC and CHEM STUDY programs, Breck School further enriched its science curriculum with the addition of the BSCS materials. This program was begun in September by Mr. Nielsen, who had attended a rigorous NSF summer institute at the University of Iowa. The general rationale of the new biology” is to present science as a process of inquiry rather than as a statement of facts and conclusions. Laboratory work, stressing how theories have meaning to apparently unrelated facts, becomes an integral part of the course. New equipment purchased for this program included ten Bausch 8c Lomb Stereozoom microscopes with illuminators, fourteen A-O Spencer compound microscopes, four new balances, a centrifuge, and an additional supply of chemicals, glassware, and miscellaneous items. Another new feature of the school curriculum was the introduction of Earth Science in the eighth and ninth grades. This course, which involves astronomy, meteorology, and geology, was taught by Mr. Nielsen and Mr. Nicklcs. In the seventh grade Mrs. Petersen organized a new class in the Science of Living Things. Even on the Lower School level the curriculum changed to keep in touch with the ever-changing ideas of science. The Minne-masi program was introduced in Kindergarten-First Grade and a new science room was provided. Ixt’s see, sugar and spice . . . 28

Page 34 text:

LANGUAGE Breck School offers four languages to its students—French, Latin, Spanish, and German. The language studies begin in the fifth and sixth grades where Mrs. Janine Nelson teaches courses in French. When the students enter the Upper School they have a chance to continue in French, change to Latin, or take both languages. Mrs. Nelly Blackburn and Mrs. Nelson work with Upper School French and the courses include both grammar and conversational French with use of Breck’s fine language laboratory. Mr. Charles Krenz, Mr. Leslie Roth, and Mr. Lloyd Gesner have the courses in beginning Latin. Mr. Michael Cram, Head of the language Department, continues their work in Latin II and III. He emphasizes the effect of the classical literary styles on modern language as well as the basic Latin fundamentals. The Spanish Department is likewise under Mr. Uram’s direction and includes courses in Spanish 1.11,and III. Mr. William Neher, who has charge of the German end of the Language Department, is currently beginning a developmental program of audio-lingual instruction in the first three levels of German. And this switch bugs the Senior room. 30