Chicago Jewish Academy - Memoirs Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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MEMOIRS FIJI OBJECTIVES OF SCIENCE TEACHING AND ITS APPLICATIONS The Physucal and Buologncal Scnences have as thenr overall oblectnves the needs of the undnvndual un the basuc aspect of everyday lnfe health vocatuon social relotuonshnps and lensure tume Scuence attempts to solve problems In personal lnvlng and soclal and economlc relatuonshups The umque contrlbutuons Science educatuon oFlers nn achnevung these goals are nn Scnence provndes us wnth a tested and psychologically three fold Flrstlv tralnlng sound method of solving ALL kunds of problems personal ns known as the Sctentlflc Method whlch consusts of the following steps lol Clearly solved fbl gathering and arrangung the facts bearung on the problem fcl as sumnng a tentatuve solutron Cdl experlmentmg to check socual and clvuc alike Thus deflmng the problem to be on the truth of this assumption and Kel thereby estab lnshnng thus ossumptuon as the unquestuonable solutuon Secondly the sublect matter of Blologv General Scnence Chemustry and Physlcs along wnth the perumentatlon accompanymg these sublects helps the student satlsfy hrs curuosnty of healthy attrtude of an qunry which us the mamsprnng for wanting to learn dnscover and to keep the mmd alert and active Fmally Scnence study as Important as a means by whnch we can most effectlvely control our physrcal en vuronment Knowmg how such mechannsms as are em ployed nn the preparatuon and preservatlon of food heotung systems electrncal and electromc devuses and nn chemucal and blologlcal processes operate enables us to llve healthler more normal and longer lrves VVVVVVV AAA AAAA CHEMISTRY Ask any student un thus class what compounds wull be formed from NaOH and HCL and he wall come up with the answer salt and water Nor even E M x C will wrlnkle hrs brow Once he has a chance to look Into the tmy worlds of electrons and neutrons has querues about chemucal reactuon are cleared up and hrs know ledge of matter nts propertues uses and changes IS augmented untul he can tear maternal apart Canalysusl and then patch ut back un nts oruglnal state lsynthesusl Forty two .-T I . -' - 1 1 1 .1 ' 1 1 1 ex' I . . l . . . . . .- 1 - I l, ' 1 I 1 ' , . . - 1 I 1 1 1 1 I - I I I I ' I I 'I I I . I I I I I

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MEMOIRS 17131721 HEBREW CLASS, Habla usted espanol mu am: 90? lf you cannot well you will In a short pernod of tame The Aca demy sometnmes called a meltung pot for students wuth so many of them from other countrnes as e ceuveng some notsce for the lm gutsts wnthln :ts walls In the plc ture shown here of the Spanish Class two of the Panamanian students are exhubntnng a kerchnet wnth Spamsh and English wrttmgs on ut Students are often found converslng wuth each other ln their native tongue SPANISH CLASS Partucular emphasus as guven to the study of the Hebrew language nn the Academy Not only s t used as a language of unstructuon nn the mornmg classes but because of nts Importance nt us a requured sublect of all Hugh School stu dents for four years The scene m thas pncture us of the hnghest Heb rew classes The courses offered Include the study of Hebrew lute rature and grammar the teaching of Jewush Hnstory and mstructuon nn the abulnty to read wnte and converse nn the modern Hebrew as used an Israel Hebrew news paper and periodicals are also read and dlscussed In class Forty one . I I 1 1 1 1 1 ,, . . I - 11 1 1 1 1 1 f ' 1 1

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WIEMOIRS 111 1 Peerlng unto thelr hugh powered mncroscopes these Buologv students behold some of the wonders of nature Thev Gnd all forms of life ammal as well as human very In terestmg and fascmatmg Wlth the help of modern equupment stu dents can study more thoroughly the mysterues of existence They often take field tnps to observe the beauties of nature ZF These lsttle Emstems shown In the picture are asslstlng the teach er un an experiment relatnng to the solutnon of the densutv and relatnve wenghts of maternals Wuth the performance of such experiments plus the new text books and lec tures on the sublects taught the student as acquainted wlth many new Ideas about thus seemingly perplexung scuence Forty three 4 I J ,-t Aqua Zchlagq H444