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Show Emery County Progress Physics students learn new ways to do old things Duane Merrell is a physics teacher who has students do things the hard way and they love it. leases are sold Bonus bids for minerals leases on available trust lands generated over $420,000 for the school trust in February. The Division of State Lands and Forestry uses the simultaneous, competitive bid process to offer mineral leases on trust lands to the highest bidder. These are lands for which previous leases have been relinquished or canceled or have expired. Simultaneous - ii J , ( offerings are made about every six months on available the set mousetraps have potential energy. The machine demonstrates the physical properties of such things as ramps, weights, the fulcrum, motion and pulleys. The weighted pendulum that releases a marble-size- d ball 1 That sets in motion a chain of events involved with a hacksaw blade, a toy truck, a ramp, a handful of three mousetraps, a length of pipe s, lands. Oil and gas leases brought over 90 percent of the revenue ,y from the bid offerings, explains Ed Bonner, minerals f 4 remaining percent came from oil shale, metalliferous 10 Rusty Truman and teacher Duane Merrell ready the Rube Goldlberg machine for form a rather simple function. Merrells students who build Rube Goldberg devices report that its fun. So do students like Travis Coyne, who helped to produce moving sculptures, in the halls of Emery County High, which also show principles of physics. Parts of the sculpture move continuously. demonstration at Emery High School. Such projects show how Merrell builds the physics program at Emery County High School. Whats often con sidered tough class turns out to be fun. Merrell now has 140 physics students a day, but he hasnt always taught physics. He began his career as a math teacher. Math was my college major, he said. Physics was my minor. Now its the only subject he teaches. Some of his high school students earn college credit from his classes. Merrells students do a lot of laboratory work, such as investigating how antifreeze works in summer as well as winter. Science shouldnt be a spectator sport, he declared. ECHS lunch Nathan Bunderson to compete at Weber in geography test On April 5, Nathan Bunderson will be on the campus of Josh Clark reads aloud to Kenny Larsen during a Ferron Elementary School reading project. pre-school- er FERRON Ferron To capitalize on that ing advantage, Mr. Behling read- and Mrs Hodson invited children from Gayle Beagleys and Sandy Behlings preschools to visit classrooms at Ferron Elementary for a morning of reading. the Read-to-M- e Party the regular students each took a preschooler and read a story book aloud, much as a parent would read to a child. After a short session, the classes traded the preschoolers and read another story. Following the story time, both the children and students took a walk through the school and finished at the library with refreshments and a look at the many fun books available in At Read-to-M- CANYON VIEW National Geography Bee. The bee is an integral part of the National Geographic STUDENT OF THE WEEK emphasize the importance of Cornia Sherman and Ryan Davis D.C. B no cost. leader. virtually all insurance Like beneficiprograms, to essential is information ary the speed and accuracy of pro- cessing claims and making DUES-TAbenefit payments up-to-da- B insurance coverage is an automatic, guaranteed benefit available to all active, staff, reserve and life members. Life members must be actively employed in the field of education. Coverage consists of a life insurance benefit, an accidental death and dismemberment benefit, and a special $25,000 benefit IMMEDIATE QPENINS For someone very flexible to members have been chosen as Canyon View Junior High School's student of the week. Cornia Is the daughter of Trudy Sherman. She lives in Huntington. She enjoys playing volleyball and baseball. Her favorite classes are home ec. and seminary. She likes to ride horses. Cornia Is looking forward to her years at Emery High School. Nathan Bunderson Ryan Is enjoying his last year at CVJH, and being a member of the Peer Helpers has kept him busy. Ryan has a great sence of humor and he can really come up with some hilarious one liners. Ryan enjoys playing basketball with his church team and football with the Canyon View team. Ryan is currently playing the drums In a rock band, and Is looking forward to performing. Ryans plans for the future Include vetemarlan school, and serving an LDS mission. perience required, typing and 10 key. Financing experience preferred. 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This member benefit program is available to all eligible members at Happy 30 th Birthday state level of the Third Castle Dale Elementary is proud to have Nathan represent it at the state level. One winner from each state and territory will advance to the national competition which will be held May 22-2- 3 at the National Geographic Society headquaters in Washington, Party are already e 4, 8. -- geography education in todays changing world. underway. simultaneous lease offering may contact the Division of State Lands and Forestry, 3 Triad Center Suite 400, Salt Lake City, Utah 84190-120phone (801)538-550- chicken burgferoven fries, peaches, chocolate chip cookie and milk. Societys effort to help the library. Declared a success by both the preschoolers and their older readers, plans to repeat the minerals, gilsonite, potash and building stone tracts. Leases were awarded on 104 tracts of land out of 223 tracts available. The minimum acceptable bid is $1 per acre per year, which pays the first years rent. Amounts over $1 are considered a bonus. People interested in being notified about upcoming dogs, rawhide potatoes, orange pears, peanut butter ' bar and milk. ,fl - Mon 08 day, April Weber State University in Ogden taking .a geography test. : i( He received word recently that his score on the test that was administered at Castle Dale Elementary School qualifies him to participate at the Kids Jielp kids read Elementary second and sixth graders treated preschoolers to a Read-to-M- e Party on Thursday of last week. The party plans were sug, gested by the Emery Council of the International Reading Association. Current research shows that children who are read to and who develop print awareness, learn to read faster and with less difficulty. The section manager. candle-lightin- g machine was one of many apparatuses build by Mer-rell- s students for Rube Goldberg Day. Rube Goldberg, a cartoonist, entertained millions a few decades ago with designs of complex machines that per- - bearing. B-B- Mineral StfMi and various other gadgets. At the finish- a match strikes and swings over to a candle lighting it. So whats the educational value of all that? Each of the various instruments in Rusty Trumans machine demonstrates a principle of physics, which is the study of matter and energy. As examples, the ball bearing illustrates kinetic energy and The hard way? Recently, his students made some complicated contraptions to perform extraordinarily simple tasks such as lighting a candle. All you do is strike a match, hold the flame near the candles wick and thats all there is to it, right? No, thats the easy way. One of Merrells students, Rusty Truman, crafted a machine that is activated when a person swings a Tuesday. April 2, 1991 13A This project Is supported by a grant from the Utah Arts Council and the National Endowment of the Arts, Washington, D.C. |