N e ws
6
Flirting in Lit tle Rock Arkansas, can land someone in jail for 30 days.
Lamey brings jet cars into classroom
Austin
HILL
Staff Writer
How in the world do
you make a car out of skewers, tape, and a balloon? That
seems impossible to do, yet
Brent Lamey’s ICP class can
tell you how. Lamey’s first,
second, and third period ICP
classes built jet cars with materials he gave them.
This project was given
to the class so they could use
the ideas Lamey gave them,
and put them into their projects. The class was studying
Newton’s three laws of motion. After the students were
finished building them, they
had a chance to race them in
class.
They raced these cars on
September 15 and 16, in his
classroom. D’Allen Anguish,
sophomore, said, “The project
was really fun and our car was
cool. I just hope that we could
do projects like this all year.”
The classes were told
that they had to build a car
out of supplies and balloons
they had. The lab was to help
them understand the concepts
Lamey taught them in class,
but students had to apply them
to make the jet cars. The challenge was to construct a car
using the scissors, 2 skewers,
tape, 4 plastic lids, 2 straws,
and a balloon. They didn’t
have to use all of the materials,
but what they used must stay
attached to the car throughout
the race. The winners of each
race got five bonus points.
They also got sixteen points
for traveling three meters, and
twenty-four points for an accurate written description of how
each of Newton’s laws applied
to the motion of the car. Lamey
said the lab enabled the class
to see the laws of motion in action while the car is moving.
As a result of the project, the classes learned all of
Newton’s laws and also applied
them to to a moving jet car. Just
think, all those laws of motion
defined by nothing more thanskewers, tape, and a ballon
Alec Norman, sophomore, blows through a straw
to help form his jet car.SOUTHERNER PHOTO/NATHANIAL POINTER
12. This project was to help
give the biology class an easier
and more exciting way to fully
understand the cellular organelles and the organelle functions.
“Overall the students did
a fine job,” says Stefanich.
The students were allowed to
use almost anything that they
could easily relate to, and they
had about three days to complete their poject. An example
of some of the students’ analogies, Stefanich said, would be
Sandy’s Pizza. The students
would have to compare parts
of the cell to the things within
a Sandy’s pizza and relate it
to a similar function, such as,
owner Sandy Wilhite being
the nucleus because she controls what goes on within the
restaurant, like a nucleus controls what goes on inside a cell.
Other examples he cited were
cake with icing, play-doh, companies, a building such as the
school, and even relating it to a
certain sport.
“I really enjoyed doing
the project!” said Anjellica Evans, freshman. “Not only because we had a chance to work
with other people, but because
it helped me to better comprehend what was going on within
a cell rather than just looking
at one.”
The biology classes
Stefanich explores the world of cells
Katie
REINHART
Staff Writer
Can you name all the
parts and functions of a cell?
Most of Richard Stefanich’s
freshman biology class can
since they did a cell analogy
project the week of September
learned most of the parts of
the cell and what their jobs
and functions are by doing this
project. Also, Craig Maikranz’s
biology classes are doing the
same cell project.
Stefanich said he has
done this cell analogy project
for many years now and it is
usually successful in helping
the students.
“I thought a project
would be a good way to start
off the year so the students
could interact,” said Maikranz.
Advance comp. takes a field trip
Austin
HILL
Staff Writer
This is an animal cell. The students used a picture
like this as a guideline fo their own projects.
How do you write a research paper? Well the advanced comp students will
soon begin the journey of
learning what it takes.
Collecting data and a
wealth of information is the
dauting task awaiting these senior students, so the advanced
comp class is taking a field trip
to the USI campus on October
11 to the Rice Library. Every
semester, Marcia Mishler and
Don Stansberry take the ad-
vanced comp students to the
USI library to let the students
learn how to collect information for their papers. Courtney
Norris, senior, says “ I am really excited about going on the
field trip to USI.” Norris also
said, “The field trip will help
me with my research papers in
the future.”
The class is a dual credit
course, which means that they
can get credits for college. This
is through the CAPS Program,
which allows the students to
take the class and a get a college credit for the class.
In the program students
get a temporary username and
password that they can use any
time they come back to USI or
Rice Library.
If the students go back
to Rice Library, they can still
use their usernames and passwords to get on USI’s database
and look at anything they have.
After the students are done at
the orientation they eat in the
cafeteria on the USI campus.
The class will return that same
day to school and continue on
with their regular class schedule.
Cookie dough sale!
Yearbook staff
members will be
selling cookie
dough
October
31-November
18