Mazama High School - Valhalla Yearbook (Klamath Falls, OR)

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CR.ELAT E. Y ?LR 6PE.CIAL Creating something your own way and on your own can be a rewarding experience. 'Creating food can be reward- ing because you can see it take shape right before your eyes. You don't have to wait a long time for a great looking product ' explained foods teacher Jennifer Magera. Stu- dents also seem to enjoy foods class because they can eat what they prepare. Miss Magera teaches foods, sewing, and clothing. The stu- dents who take sewing are usually females. Miss Magera feels that more females take sewing because boys just aren't as interested in fashion and clothing as females. The students who do take sewing are usually devoted to sewing and do well in the class. They make aprons, pot holders, and the advanced classes make shirts and dresses. Altough foods seems to be more popular, both foods and sewing provide valuable ex- periences for the student's fu- ture. Meredith Bellet prepares to make some tortillas. The foods class had a week of preparing Mexican food. Jennifer Tillery works on a shirt in sewing class. Making shirts was a very popular project over the year. Concentrating on threading the needle, Kirsty Layne prepares her machine for sewing. Preparing the machine seemed to be the frustrating part of sewing this year. 14 • home economics

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John Couey tries to release air bubbles from a test tube. To acquire pure hydro- gen, all air has to be removed. A great way to see how chemi- cals react or how a star fish's char- acteristics are important to its sur- vival is by participating in a lab. IPS and Biology are examples of classes that can get you started in higher chemistry or in human anatomy. IPS and Biology are great calsses to prepare our stu- dents for their future academic ca- reers'' commented Larry Wagner, the Mazama IPS teacher. Students always seem to enjoy lab days. Spirits were raised when they were doing labs maybe because there was no written work or maybe be- cause the students could get their hands dirty. Most labs required calculations and mathematical formulas to determine the weight or density of a chemical. Lab days in Biology included the dissection of worms, frogs, and crayfish. The dissection of certain creatures went along with the chapters in the textbook that the students were learning. The students would get a better idea in the characteris- tics of a mammal by doing a dis- section. gas during an experiment. IPS students Mara Bailey heats up a mixture to release conducted many experiments throughout hydrogen gas. The students collected sev- the school year, eral bottles of hydrogen to test for differ- ent reactions. Science Labs - 13

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Todd Hamblin dishes up some of the fine food that he and Chad Steen made. The students always seemed to enjoy eating the food that they had prepared. Trying out the food that she pre- pared is Daniele Martins. One of the great things about foods was that you could eat what you had prepared. Trade Ballew concentrates on making a clean cut in the fabric. Measuring and cutting fabric was an very important part of sewing. Home economics - 15