John Wesley North High School - Aurora Yearbook (Riverside, CA)

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Exploding Ferns?! Don ' t panic if your fern doesn ' t explode, folks. Give it time, give it time, Mr. Crandall called to his biology class. If any acid spills on your hands, don ' t panic. Just wash your hands . . . quickly! Your hands may burn for the rest of the day, but that ' s normal, instructed Miss Lieux to her chemistry class. Although it was not an everyday occurrence, unusual experiences along with unique instructional techniques were common in the science department. Anything from completely reconstructing the skeletal structures of frogs in biology to decomposing chemical compounds in chemistry were covered. John North High had just one farm, e-i-e-i-o. And on this farm he had a classroom? Award-winning projects? A new instructor? Old MacDonald may not have had such an unusual farm, but the agriculture department was certainly content with their instructional farmyard. The program allowed students to work on specialized projects for awards and profit, while providing excellent academic and vocational training. You can take an ag class for a grade, or you can take an ag class and make a lot of money, stated agriculture teacher, Mrs. Pirtle. Mr. McCoy returned to the department as an animal husbandry instructor after several years ' absence and brought new ideas and hopes with him. I like opening the students ' eyes to other outlooks in life. I like to see them achieve! remarked Mr. McCoy. Confused by the unit on micro-organisms, Cynthia Pearce questions Mr. Martin about a Paramecium diagram in her book. Focusing the microscope, Adele Bruner describes an amoeba as her lab partner Frances Lara records a description of the organism. Working as an aide in the science department, Ruthann Horn sweeps shelves amidst chemicals and specimens in the storeroom. In a spare moment in physics, Suzi Roger and Aiki Atkinson conduct their own experiment with Roger ' s lighter and a stopwatch provid- ed by the lab. 168 academics

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Does hard work really pay off? Here, Heidi Witt and Blake Williams study intently for their Ger- man test the next day. A teacher ' s job is never done . . . Mr. Nicholls helps Alex Silva with an Algebra problem. Preparing for the next day ' s Christmas party in her Sociology class, Allyson Miller writes the food list on the chalkboard. Latin student Lauren Stewart works feverishly to complete her homework assignment in class in order to save some time for herself that night. math, foreign language, social studies 167

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Climbing oul of the depths of the science storeroom, Mr. (Vandal! donates a cage for a student ' s biology project. All of Crandall ' s biology students were required to do a research project. science, agriculture 169