Emerson High School - Emersonian Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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ELIZABETH AMES A. B. ZOOLOGY DEPARTMENT The Zoology Department offers the regular high school course, and in addition, the economic importance of each type is studied in detail. We want our students to appreciate the importance of animal life in every-day living. For the students who wish practical work in poultry, pheasant, duck and squab raising, the department has organized courses. The nature study work is also cared for in providing opportunities for the study of pets kept on the grounds. We are indebted to Cy De Vry of Lincoln Park, Wallace Evans of the Game Protective Society and Mr. Tittle of this city for most of our animals. F. B. SHIRLEY Twenty-four

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S. C. ENGLE, A. B. C. L. E. CHEMISTRY The Science Department of the Gary Public Schools was organized as a department in nineteen hundred and ten, at which time there were five teachers, representing botany, zoology, physics, domestic science and chem¬ istry. Prior to that time all the sciences had been taught by two teachers, but at present the department has grown until we have sixteen teachers. One of the distinctive features of the science work in the schools is the extent to which the sciences are taught in the grades. Other schools teach science in the grades, but they do not teach so many nor do they extend the work to as young pupils as the Gary Schools. Another distinctive feature is the fact that the teachers, who teach their special subject to high school students, teach the same subject in an elementary manner to the grades. Because of this fact, we do not have science teachers whom we can call strictly high school teachers, but by this method we get better co-ordination between grade and high school work. The work of the department is made to touch the daily life of the student as much as possible. In botany and zoology we believe in empha¬ sizing the macroscopical rather than the microscopical side of plant and animal life, so for that reason we have our extensive gardens, lawns, aquaria and “zoos;” in physics we deal with the practical side of the school’s heating and ventilating plants, electrical repairs, etc., while in chemistry we try to emphasize the chemistry of the daily life of the student. We feel that the distinctive features of the science in the Gary Public Schools are important ones, and are features which will be incorporated in the science work in “The School of Tomorrow.” DR. O. B. NESBIT School Physician Twenty-three

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