Imperial Schools - Diplomat Yearbook (Gladewater, TX)

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Education is not something reserved for a textbook. The home, backyard, construction down the street, the sky above and the earth under our feet is the classroom. We need only to tap the wealth of our environment to drink in a richly rewarding education. Re- wards not only for the student but for the teacher as well. High school science takes on more sophisti- cation as experiments become more involved and demanding. More independent work is done. Project work is encouraged where stud- ents can construct electronic equipment, a telescope, develop various types of machines or work in a biological area such as raising bees. More emphasis is placed upon the students responsibility for independent research and personal initiative for completing their own project.

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SALT AND DIAMONDS Many minerals form beautiful crystals with smooth Hat faces and sharp edges. In some of these crystals, the faces are regular olygons that have the same size and shape, with t e same number of polygons at each corner. A solid that is built in this way is called a regular solid. There are exactly five regular solids. Their names show the number of faces that they have. The tetrahedron Qfour facesj is made of tri- angles. The loexgzbedronnor cube fsix facesj is made of squares. The qbctahedron feight facesj is made of triangles. The dodecabedron ftwelve facesj is made of entagons. The icosahedron ftwenty facesj is ma e of triangles. If you look at table salt under a magnifying glass, you will see that each crystal is a cube. A diamond crystal is an octahedron. As practice with rulers and protractors for measuring lines and angles, elementary students constructed a series of regular polygons Qequal angled and equal sided Hat figuresj. From these they then ventured into the world of three dimen- sions and experimented with constructing regular solids. As knowledge and interest increased they attempted numerous original figures as well, us- ing a variety of polygons. After much trial and error students soon realized that orderliness and perfection are not the result of accident and chance but of carefully executed design and workmanship. e 5 'Y 5 is 'X- if :iii11553u7f57TL3il5,i5ifJi 7 E551-35: 3 idwigawws V . , . V My-2:w5. . e e'-se 1:1122 . away eg wK1Ks vi s a? Masfswff za H up ' Mi by . as ,S E S ki X . 5 5 is iff fa Rf .gfifi-2255 ,R 3625 ?aQ5?f.:zE. 11 ' mg. gui 'fbffuifwiiezs M ' from the osfer esigner --1-in .fi-1 Hexaheclron lCubel Odahedron