October 25, 1978 New Science Program in Donegal oe 1 elementary schools SUSQUEHANNA TIMES—Page 7 Fifth graders at Riverview learn to estimate quantities of particles by breaking them into manageable units. From left to right are; Brenda Zink, Joanna Hedgepeth, and Teddy Reeves. Third graders at Maytown study symmetry. From left to right are; Toby Applegate, Joe Garber, Robert Arnett and Erik Williams. Kindergarteners at Grandview play with blocks, before learning geometric principle with them. From left to right are; Mary Jane Derr [who built a bridge], Dustin Piersol [with a ‘‘thing to climb on’’] and Stacie Wagne fd - r [with a garage]. Sixth graders at Seiler experiment with light. From left to right are; Jim Buckley, Hank Rathkey, Mike Shelly, Rick Hallgren and Scott Houseal. After a couple years of pilot studies, the Donegal elementary schools have fully committed themselves to a new kind of science program. Instead of learn- ing science fundamentals from textbooks, the kids are now learning with their own hands, by performing experiments. colored plastic. In Mrs. Carol Ginge- rich’s Sth grade class at Riverview, the same hands -on approach is being used to teach the kids elemen- tary statistics. Starting with heaps of marbles, peas, and various smaller parti- cles, the students first discover how hard and boring it is to count by The program extends all the way down to kinder- garten. At the Grandview School, Mrs. Libhart’s kin- dergarteners are learning a lot from simple-looking wooden blocks. The lessons start with ordinary play (this reporter watched the class build various bridges, boats and gas stations) and end with the kids learning Be One Of The Lert x. 2 4 Y ice Jen ~ ° ~ Who Have iF First Federal SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION OF LANCASTER to join our 1979 Christmas Clubs Clubs pay 51/9; perannum compounded daily HO S “2 i z || AK sys Stop in or mail the convenient coupon today to First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Lancaster 24 E. Main St., Mount Joy PA 17552 FSLIC Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corp. Traveled To Cisse. Christmas Club go PLEASE DO NOT WRITE ABOVE THIS LINE Here is my application card with my first payment in the class checked. A good example of how ones, then work out pro- to compute the relative $1] $200 $50 $0 00 the new approach works is gressively more sophisti- volumes of cubes. provided by Mrs. cated ways of estimating Although the program NAME Alexander’s 6th grade class the number of particles in a does not use textbooks or Please Print at Seiler. Her students are heap. : tests, all the teachers this . STREET SOC. SEC. NO. currently studying light. In Shirley Trimmer’s 3rd reporter interviewed In the past, they might grade class at Maytown, thought that the students CITY STATE ZIP CODE have gone to a textbook to the kids are studying were learning a lot more find out what color results symetry, with niirrors and from this program that SIGNATURE DATE when red and blue light are geometrically patterned from the old-fashioned mixed, or which end of the sheets of cardboard. ‘‘At method of teaching Seigrce. Ei ir £2 eral spectrum is diffracted far- first, 1 couldn’t see the Apparently, when the kids thest by passage through a purpose of this project,” construct and execute their Mans apLon ASSOCIATION OF LANCASTER glass of water. Today, the teacher admits. Then own experiments, they un- Lancaster Park City Lititz derstand what they have New Holland Millersville Mount Joy Quarryville behind the dark curtains in the auditorium, they figure it out for themselves, with light bulbs ‘and sheets of" an organic chemistry stu- dent told her that sym- metry is the basis of his own specialty. studied much better than when they memorize facts from books.’ Member Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation AI Tl ne lp a WM CN TR A A. . 0 FF 5 0 0 48 00 FF 6 ST £6 00 SF £0 $0 £4 SF 00 Pe 0 09 0 0 OP OP 00 We $F 09 Wn 69 Tp $9 99 08 0 & TR SA PT 43 as Fv Sa VS ES Se STAs vis Seal
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