Casey High School - Flame Yearbook (Casey, IL)

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SCIENCE When the present building was constructed, provision was made for three laboratories, two store rooms, and one recitation ix om to be used by the department of Physical Sciences. In this department the following courses are offered: General Science, Botany, Zoology, Chemistry and Physics. There are about one hundred-ninety students enrolled in these courses . General Science is a general study of all the physical sciences and not a special study of any one of them. Its purpose is to arouse scientific curiosity for the purpose of encouraging further scientific study both in and out of school with the idea of making pupils more intelligent and useful citizens. This subject is of special value to beginning students in high school who may leave school without further study in science. Experimental work in the laboratory is supplementary to regular text book work. The Botany and Zoology courses include the study of the life, habit, structure and function of plants and animals. Both plants and animals are considered from the standpoint of their economic importance. These courses are for the purpose of giving an understanding of vital processes and the structures which they involve that will lead the pupils to appreciate something of the organic world about them. The work illustrates the general principles of these sciences and the meaning and importance of biological control through the use of subject matter, materials, procedures, problems, and projects. Laboratory and field work based on typical examples supplements the material given in the text books and references. The laboratory is equipped for the pupils to do individual work. Chemistry is a very important and fundamental science which deals primarily with matter and changes it undergoes and therefore is a study of the underlying structure of all material things. The utility of Chemistry was most fully realized during the World War and as a result there has been a widespread interest in this subject in the last decade. The information is gained through material in the text books and by experimental work in the laboratory. The accommodations in the chemistry laboratory are such that each student may perform for himself, each experiment required in the course. Physics is a science which treats of matter and energy. It may be defined as that branch of science which deals with the physical changes taking place in matter. Many questions pertaining to our every day life are constantly arising. A study is made of mechanics, heat, light, magnetism, electricity, etc., through material in the text work and also by experimental work in the physics laboratory, where the students have access to apparatus for the study of different types of machines for the study of heat, light, magnetism and electricity. Each student has the opportunity of doing his own experiments in the various fields of physics. Twenty-three

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GENERAL SCIENCE LABORATORY CHEMISTRY LABORATORY Tiventy-tivo

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AGRICULTURE CLASS ROOM —I SEED HOUSE Twenty-four