Show 1 j 1 1 fi ry j l kJ j t t J I. I O r f r I I U 1 f 11 Io i J r. r t. t JI r i i 1 I I. I 7 l s. s i t ij Jt l I I 1 iri Ji 41 7 J t t tJ 4 1 I. I N ri r r. r I J tur v r I J A q 4 ra t ii 1 h h i t t lr l k E rl 11 Y Y r 1 i t ct Stoker Class is Out in Space A huge sun five feet ten Inches in diameter confronts an anyone rone entering Bruce McQuire's Me Mc MeGuire's MeGuire's Guires Guire's sixth grade classroom at Stoker School The TIle imposing sphere built of paper mache on a cardboard foundation is the center of attraction in a complete solar system built to scale by the class Mercury 1 the smallest planet measures measures' a tiny one fourth inch In diameter Two scales were used in the construction The first used in determining the size of the planets allowed one inch for each miles The second used in determining the distance distance dis tance between planets allowed one inch for each 14 and one half million miles We uWe had to use two scales or the project would have extended extended extended ex ex- ex- ex tended into the next county remarked one serious student Twenty nine nue boys bos and girls worked for a month to complete the project last December Since then the sun and her planets have been suspended from the ceiling by strings with witha a name tag under each heavenly heaven heaven- I ly body Mr 11 McGuire while hile teaching in California had his class build a similar solar system which became a project of interest interest in in- terest to visitors from miles around The Stoker project has brought se several r l. l other th r classes to visit Room 13 where it jt h hangs Now the students are stud study ing weather in their science classes and h have ve decided l to tj take the solar system down Mr 1 McGuire has to duck every ery time lime he goes under the sun laugh his pupils Another interesting feature in inthe inthe inthe the room is the 20 gallon aquarium aquarium aqua aqua- which class committees keep clean and in order We had all nIl kinds of f fish sh one girl remarked but they started to I cat each other You should have seen one big fish with the tail of another one hanging out of his mouth shrugged a very nonchalant young man But special activities arent aren't limited to things scientific The class is going lingual bilingual with classes in Russian three times a week The classes arc are taught via television b by Davis County's Andre Anastasion Each member of the group has has' plenty of experience in growing up as he serves on the sweeping committee the black blackboard blackboard blackboard board committee the paper committee the book committee the aquarium committee oran or an any of a number of other committees committees committees com com- designed to give the boys and girls a personal hand handin in their school life They learn by doing And what more concrete way could the they learn about the solar system system tem tern than to arrange all of the planets around a six fool sun foot sun PJ pi- pi |