Douglas MacArthur High School - Brahma Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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lv X Q A il ' 0 I I 1 oi,', ' . g ...bl Carol Hervey and Marsha Paul use a Bunsen burner in Chemistry. Labs challenge skills Everybody's done it . . . Singed their eyebrows on a Bunsen burner, mangled a pickled frog, or spent a whole night tangled in waxpaper tape trying to fake numbers for a physics lab report. Despite the ever present technical difficulties, a lab gave a stu- dent a chance to solve his own problems and work more in- dependently than at other times. The chance to apply oneself to a problem and find the answers out for himself could be more fun and informative than standard question-answer lear- ning, despite the fact that many felt that it was the easiest way to goof up a grade. Students in Biology I conduct a dissection ofa crayfish. Academics 153

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l44 DlSTRlCT count ROY R. BARRERA JR. Government students Jett Slotnick and Paul Solomon follow on a tour of the courthouse. me tu, Field trips offer change ci pace One of the rarer and more en- joyable class activities was going on a field trip. Getting away from the stuffy classrooms and lectures was an interesting and welcome change of pace. Ms. Jann Cooper's American government classes went on an ex- cursion to the county courthouse. Students were given tours of the building, and sat in on a couple of trials. This gave them a clear look at how the judiciary system operates. Senior Robyn Bradley said, It gave me insight into court proceedings that l would not have gotten without first-hand experience. ..'-Q5 aff. 131 i 'J alumnus an . it l g Government students tile in to watch atrial. if tri-...-: '....1. Academics 155