Cody High School - Comet Yearbook (Detroit, MI)

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Classroom study educates students in scientific fields An experiment in which chemistry students discover how soap is made produces enough genuine white lather from a previously heated solution to clean up soiled hands and apparatus. SCIENCE TEACHERS . . . Top Row: S. Ascher Cdepartment headj. Middle: C. Jaaksi. Bottom Row: P. ' McNamara. i Changing a liquid into a gas is an example of the kind of experiments chemistry students attempt during laboratory periods. Thirty-seven

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Thirty-six Above, the earth's rotation is demon- strated in a physiography class. Below, physics students adjust various weights to balance a yardstick. The world of nuclear physics proved to be a foundation for many demonstrations. Mr. McNamara presented a visual ren- dering of the patterns of attraction found in a magnetic field. The explorative study of high school chemistry and physics covered the vast realms of scientific experimentation and exacting calculation. In the science lab, Cody students probed into classroom worlds of chemical reactions and the changes in matter and energy. Here, complicated experiments and problems provided a challenge, even for the most clever mind. Delving into the composition of matter, chemistry students learned to name and identify the properties of the elements. Lab assignments also included testing various chemical reactions and recording the results in equation form. Lecture time was spent discussing these reactions and how they ajfect our daily lives. In physics, too, the laboratory became a proving ground for laws and theories explained during class lectures. Diagrams then took the place of chemical formulas as students explored the science of sound waves and electricity. And the study of mass and energy, and relativity and gravity, became homework assignments for Cody student physicists. Nuclear physics, a new class taught after school, was oyjfered this year to specially interested students. Qlfhe seminar course of study included experiments in electric and magnetic forces and discussions on advanced nuclear energy.

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Thirty-eight A large cross-section mold of a typical plant stem aids biology students as they transfer their microscope observations to paper sketches. For Cody students, biology is the down to earth study of household plants and animals and the fundamentals of good body health. They learned to use its principles in every day living-in raising a garden, a pet, and in raising a family. Horticulture classes, for example, taught students how to cultivate a green thumb. Student gardners planted and tended flowers and vegetables in the Cody greenhouse and then in spring gardens at home. In biology, students studied organic life in common plants and animals. More advanced study included lectures on human life. Charts and models of the heart, lungs, and other organs were used to show students how the physical senses function in the body. Physiology offered students an even better chance to analyze human anatomy. And a radiation biology course was introduced this year for more advanced students. Biology lessons prove practical in every clay living