Prairie Heights Community High School - Galaxy Yearbook (Lagrange, IN)

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One of the many aspects of biology class that students find interesting, is viewing microscopic organisms. Modern math is one of the outstanding courses added to our new curriculum. Advanced Training Gene Graves, Dave Singleton, and David Store are doing an experiment. They are finding it challenging to work in our new chemistry lab.

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Science Provide The planetarium, our pride and joy, is a room in which a projector casts images of the stars and planets on a hemisherical dome. The instruments are used inteaching the fundamentals of astronomy including such things as constellations, motions of planets, groups of stars, and facts about stars. ' They also help introduce the students to the current missile programs connected with space science. Beginning with next year, Mr. Noffsinger hopes to organize an advanced course in space science and astronomy, he plans to start teaching astronomy to fifth grade students who would come to the planetarium two or threetimes a year, and eventually provide adult edu- cation courses in astronomy. Mr. Noffsinger points out parts of the projector while students observe.

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Language Develops One of the most dramatic changes in foreign language instruction has taken place within the past several years. This perhaps is due partly to the fact that emphasis is now being placed upon learning the language speaking it. The language laboratory serves as invaluable adjunct to foreign language instruction of today. The language laboratory does not replace the teacher but it enables him and the students to do things that they cannot do in the classroom. Through regularly scheduled lab sessions, the stu- dents receive concentrated drill and practice for fifteen to twenty minutes, over material which has first be en introduced in the classroom by the teacher. In the laboratory, the students are provided with a variety of authentic native voices which serve as untiring models. Students receiving concentrated drill. The busy juniors under Mr. Meeks study hard to get their English Assignments. Junior Everett, Sharon Sanders, Cherry Boyer, and Sue Young preparing a speech for Speech Class.