Show SPORT AS BASIS IN STUDY OF SCIENCE CE I Professor Has Plan to Inter Interest Inter Interest est Youths BOSTON May Ia 2 Teaching Teaching science science science ence may become a sporting proposition tion if a new method I of scientific education in the Junior high schools advocated b by b Pr Professor fessor L Lyman man C. C Newell ewell head of the chemistry department department department depart depart- ment of Boston Doston university is universally universally uni uni- adopted Hockey skiing sailing and other sports are used as the basis for teaching scientific I principles I j jEvery Every boy knows he can cant can't t skate I I with dull skates but he doesn't know I much about the laws of friction says Professor Newell 1 Practically every scientific principle can be connected connected connected con con- up with the daily dally Interests of ithe Ithe i ithe the 12 to 14 year old bo boy Sports I fire tire engines electric cars a burning building his telephone and his wireless wireless wire wire- wire wire-I less apparatus may mry all be used as illustrations of the practical working of oC the laws worked out b by science Meet the boy in h his s own world and introduce him to the larger world o of science Instead of or blaming ning him for going to the movies teach him I about the lenses Images sources o of j I light and a hundred other things that make motion photography pos pos- sible On a rainy day dat teach him why it rains Take Tale advantage of a a. thunderstorm to tell him of static electricity Dont Don't stop with mere in In- In formation Go on to the scientific principle involved The same idea may be carried through from spring to winter ac according according ac- ac I cording to Professor Newell A list of topics dealing with the boys boy's I every everyday natural interests in sports and every everyday everyday day happenings s has been heen prepared by I j I him and is to be tried out by hy the classes in The Teaching of General Science clence In the Junior High School I which is being conducted at Boston Doston university |