Franklin Central High School - Liberanni Yearbook (Franklin, NY)

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IPHWEDHCEZML IEHDUJCEMFHKDN Ph sical Education includes such activities as running, dancing, games, athletics, safety, and personal and public health, as they appeal to students' interest and are supervised for his physical well-being or correction and prevention of bodily deficiency. Physical education and athletics help maintain and pro ote good health and the social qualities of good sportsmanship. They also provide opportunities for qualities of leadership, courage, loyalty, and self sacrifice. They create interest in school and college life. They appeal to the students' deeper instincts and emotions, development of personal traits which affect one's associates and create in youth, intelligent and healthful interest in physical activity which tend to carry through to adult life for a better use of leisure time vhich is becoming more an more a problem of the nation. All pupils attending the public schools are to take this course,1n so far as they are capable and physically fit. The kindergarten is the only exception to this rule. Physical Education and Athletics are a part of education and lifeg therefore, they should be givenimportance, but they should not overshadow the other worthfvhile things of life. Physical Education is a direction of motor activity as a means of developing the mind, character, control,and the body

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EDCEHIENCUE The Science Department starts with the seventh grade science division. These students have two recitations a week, in which they become slightly acquainted with science, the most important field in the life of mankind. The next advancement is in the eighth grade science. These students have three recitations per week, in which they make more firm their basic knowledge of science. General Science is taught five times a week, and takes all of the more important fields of science into consideration to some extent. This subject is required by the state. This year another science subject has been added to our curriculum. General Biology is being taught for the first time this year. General Biology is built around the ground- work of Elementary Biology or General Science. Man is made the center of study, both as an individual and as a species. Perhaps nothing holds as great interest for boys and girls as the study of the cultural advancement of man. The story of prehistoric man, of the early records of primitive man, and of man's progress through historical times is a feature of the work in the new course in General Biology. That man is a unit in the great world of nature, that he has many interrelations with the plant and animal world of nature, that he has merely made a beginning in his control of his world are fascinating research problems touched upon in this course. General Biology is taught for five periods a week of forty minutes each, plus a forty minute laboratory period. This year Physics is being taught as an advanced science. Next year the advanced science will be Chemistry. The Physics class is planning to take an educational trip through some large manufacturing plant. They will probably visit the General Electric plant in Schenectady. There has been some new apparatus added to the laboratory this year. In adding Biology to the science curriculum, there was a need for extra equip ent, some of which was purchased by the school. There has also been a small amount of equipment purchased for use in the other science subjects. The enrollment of the science department has increased this year to one h ndred and twenty students.