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Sane Scientists

O n any given day a well as introductory science
visitor could peek into courses in the seventh and
a science classroom eighth grades.
and gaze upon truly strange Chemistry II and Biology II,
goings-on: students playing college level advanced
with fire, teachers lofting sticks placement courses, were also
of chalk into parabolic flight, or offered. Steve Chudnow, a
a frog being sliced down the Biology II student, commented
middle. Such scenes were not about his challenging course,
unfamiliar to students enrolled “Sometimes it’s hard to sit
in one of the diverse science through two periods of
courses that were offered. biology, but Mrs. Grosz makes
One of the many changes the lectures come alive for me.
that were made for the 1985 It's almost as though DNA
school year was an increase in weren’t microscopic, but a
graduation requirements for tangible entity to reach out and
science. In addition to biology touch. Pine Crest's science
and chemistry or physics, courses have given me the
students were required to take inspiration to become a doc­
one more science course, as tor.”

Listening attentively in her chemistry For their biology experiment, Mike
class, Jaimie Roszkowski and Brian Buchsbaum and Mark Fineman note the
Goldberg take notes on the explanation differences between a male and female
of the orbital spin of electrons in a turtle,
hydrogen atom.

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