Chicago Jewish Academy - Memoirs Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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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

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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 131 ' COMMERCIAL The Commercial courses at the Chicago Jewish Academy have helped a few of last years graduates to obtain and advance ln good paying labs Also some of our students find that after learmng typmg or book keepmg they can get a better paying summer 'ob be fore graduation The commercial curriculum of the Academy offers a two Year course in both typmg and shorthand a one year course in bookkeeping and a semester course nn office practice ln typmg students learn the operatnon of a typewriter and work for ten minute certificates In order to qualify for one of these certificates a student must be able to type at least 30 words a minute wnth students learn to cut a stencil illustrate It on the mnmeoscope and run ut off on a mlmeograph machme A few extra ambitious students have somehow found BOOKKEEPING Looking over the shoulder of this student we see a Bookkeeping textbook and workbook nn which the student as carefully calculatmg the problem according to his knowledge of the sublect Thus course is a great asset to students interested un a busmess career for Academy graduates have received good 'obs after finishing school and are a credit to their Alma Mater Lets hope thus student can balance has debuts with hs credits and be left with a profit for his effort an the course enough tnme to practice from a Hebrew typmg text from Israel on our one Hebrew typewriter If they had more time they might learn to type busmess letters an Hebrew nn addition to learmng the Hebrew keyboard Academy students enloy the novelty of the Gregg system of representing sounds Towards the end of one year these students can take shorthand from extended dictation and transcribe at at the typewriter In book keepmg too Academy students have an opportunity to use their reasoning abnlltles to complete a detailed book keepmg cycle with a ten column work sheet a balance sheet and a statement of profit and loss ln office practice students learn to file busmess records where they can for the Annual or the school paper or some prolect for the school find their accuracy and speed greatly be nefited Forty four D T - T three errors or less, then 40 wpm, 50 wpm, etc. Typing be quickly found. Many typing students who help type , . . . . i