Forest Lake High School - Forester Yearbook (Forest Lake, MN)

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ARNOLD SCOFIELD Bachelor of Arts from University of Minnesota. Mathematics. DAVID WETTSTEIN Bachelor of Science degree from St. Cloud State College. Mathematics. L MARVIN FUHRMAN Bachelor of Science degree from Stout State College. Science, Industrial Arts. Science, Math Are in National Spotlight KEITH A. MARKUSON Bachelor of Science degree from St. Cloud State College. Science, Driver Training, Audio-Visual. 18 Keeping up with sputnik has produced even more modern, active, science and math departments for FLHS. Students are taught basic mathematics and natural science, beginning in the seventh grade. In the ninth grade, math students may study algebra, as a preparation for higher algebra, an elective in senior high. Plane ge- ometry, solid geometry, and trigonometry are also electives open to those interested in higher math. Science-minded pupils may elect biology, chemistry, and physics as courses of study in senior high.

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Keeping abreast of the times are students enrolled in junior and sen- ior high social studies classes. Seventh graders study American history and government, while the geography of the world is ex- plored in eighth grade. Freshmen do not take social studies, but the course is picked up again with American history in the sophomore year. Social studies is not required in eleventh grade, but many students enroll in World History and Af- fairs, an elective. Completely re- vised this year, the course, taught by Mr. Nelson, is now a two year subject, featuring current events. The students are responsible for spot quizzes on the big news sto- ries of the day and current events tests. All seniors are required to take social science which covers topics such as voting, communism, and political parties among others. A class dealing with people and so- cial problems rather than history and geography, social studies re- quires a year's project of each student. The projects include poll taking, visitations, oral reports, term papers, and drawings. THE CHANGING WORLD. Here Jeannette McPhail, Cynthia Franzen, and Arthur Kost observe the world's affairs in Mr. Nelson's advanced history course. HERE IT IS. says Howard Nielson as he points out a foreign land on the globe to Faith Radtke and Ken Maclean in Mr. Matteson's American History 10 class.

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New Course Is Offered A change in the Science Department is the new PSSC theoretical physics course. As instructor, Mr. Ny- man, stated, This is a course in physics, and not tech- nology or engineering. Aimed at teaching the student to understand the laws of physics, and thereby predict and control reactions, the course is being tested through-out the nation in many high schools, including FLHS. Juniors and seniors experimented and studied in Mr. Nyman's two chemistry classes. Planned as a college preparatory course, it is a popular elective for students interested in engineering, medicine, or teaching. Using the new chemistry laboratory and equipment, the students learned by doing in the form of experi- mentation. Notice the wave pattern, points out Mr. Nyman to PSSC students, Rudy Olson and Earl Halley. This elaborate piece of equipment is a ripple tank, one of the additional pieces recommended for the physics course. Now you try, might be the exclamation of Mr. Wettstein, jun- ior high math teacher, to Jill Werner and Ernest Switzer as he illustrates one of the many problems occurring in their ninth grade math class.