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Science — for general knowledge or interest

| f you like experimenting, you’ll find plenty of it in the Anyone who is interested in science or interested in
science rooms. Whether it be measuring the tempera­ going to college is recommended by other students to
ture of water in Chemistry to dissecting Cats in Human take Chemistry. This class goes over the fundamen­
Physiology, one just can’t get away from experiments tals, which are learning the table of elements and bal­
if he takes science. ancing equations. Some students feel that if you are
If you just want a general knowledge of science, going into Chemistry in college and you have the fun­
some students recommend taking Practical Physical damentals down, the class will be a lot easier. Taking
Science. This course deals with studies of planets, Chemistry in high school may mean that you won’t
protons, neutrons, and the metric system. The class have to take it in college. This means you will save time
involves experiments, a lot of discussion, film watch­ and money because you don’t have to pay for the
ing, and single student projects which students do on course in high school.
their own for some type of extra credit. "Mrs. Trigg encourages you to try and allows you to
“ For what the class was and for the length of the correct your mistakes. She tempts and usually suc­
class, I learned more in there than I have in some of my ceeds in making boring subjects fascinating to her stu­
year-long classes.,” said junior Kelly Nyquist. dents,” said junior Vicki Rugha.

Answering the questions is part of Mr. Dave Contreras' job as a science teacher. He also assists Measuring the water temperature at different intervals of time was one experiment done by
freshman Wes Mitten, Kim Bave, and Bill Newingham with their experiment on enzymes. chemistry students. Junior Rae Peterson reads a thermometer while junior Kim Carbullido takes
notes.