Shelbyville High School - Squib Yearbook (Shelbyville, IN)

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joclagjn modern mrfd Biology, a required subject at SHS is under the direction of Doloris McDonald, Arthur Barnett, and Garnett VVin- chester. The students study plant and animal life with the aid of films, microscope study, and special projects. The penetrating odors drifting from the solarium are the result of projects dealing with rats and other small animals. Keeping an aquarium, collecting insects, incubating eggs, and studying Mcndelis Law of Heredity are other popular projects among biology students. All of us who leave SHS must have studied health, a required one-semester course. Doloris McDonald teaches the girls while the boys are taught by Arthur Barnett. In health we study tissues, organs, and systems of the human body. This year, for the first time, students were given an op- portunity to study the peace time uses of radiation. A class of twenty niet with Mr. Barnett after school two days each week. The course was based on films concerning radiation. The students saw demonstrations and performed experiments with radioactive isotopes. In these experi- ments they used a Geiger-Muller counter, a new piece of equipment at SHS. Sam Stader, Bill Yoder, and Ron Zeller examine the new est additions to their rat family. Vicky Scheffler cares for her aquarium in biology class. Linda jones and Mike McRobe1ts operate a Geiger counter in the radia- tion class. 17

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Ciel'lC8 0LU'6e:5 .9l'ltl'0C!UC2 .S7fbL6!el'lf:5 fo Alice XVard, Mike Thomasson, Steve Stine, and Ann Taylor perform a scientific experiment in chemistry class. C2Aemi5If1r'y ana! iQAg5ic:i X sms - t. Et R i Nancy NVasson and Mike Mount made many scientific diseox-'eries.', Performing classes is not only educational hut also lots of fun. How- only a part of what takes place in these listened to lectures, worked problems, and for on-coming tests. Several movies, per- experiments in our chemistry and physics ever, this is courses. We studied hard taining to the material we studied, were shown to ns hy Mr. jerry Need, our new science teacher. Mr. Need took over for Mr. Thompson who was granted a leave of ah- senee this year to further his college education. The chemistry course is designed to give us a basic knowledge of elementary chemistry and to give us an idea of whether or not we would like to pursue that profession. XVe make a detailed study of several important elements and even produce a few of the gases in class. The physics course deals mainly with matter and energy and the transformation of energy. XVe study simple ma- chines, electricity, light, nuclear reactions, and problems, prolmlems, prohlemsl NVe watch complicated experiments lacing performed by Mr. Need and do the simpler one ourselves.

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Dave Bird explains a geometry proposition to joyce Johnson. lgofygond ana! .gymdogi gafk Waflz .sjfualenfa Mary Jo Soller, Elton Linville, and Mike Thomas watch as Mr. McKeand explains the sphere. Shelbyville High School is proud of the mathematics de- partment that has been developed through the years to meet the ever increasing needs of the students. Plane geometry is the study of the properties of solids, surfaces, lines, and angles which lie in a flat surface. In geometry classes we learn how to prove basic theorems which enable us to understand the concepts of geometry. Constructing triangles, quadrilaterals, hexagons, and other polygons is another part of this course. Ray Beck teaches the sophomore geometry classes. Advanced or college algebra, taught by Mr. Beck and I. M. McKeand, deals with complicated equations, factor- ing, and quadratic functions. One of the most interesting chapters to most students deals with probabilities. Special sections of the book show how algebra is related to various practical situations. Mr. McKeand also teaches senior math which consists of solid geometry, the study of the properties of solid figures, plane trigonometry, analytic geometry, and intro- ductory calculus, a method of computation by reasoning through the use of symbols. As mathematics is the basis of the sciences, engineering, and other related vocations, it is given the importance it deserves.