Happy Halloween! A perfect day to inquire about that Jerome Chandler Science Room
at AGSHS you’ve heard so much about …perfect, because one of this year’s
additions is just so darned appropriate to highlight TODAY OF ALL DAYS!!!
Plus, on our recent visit to Axim, we had firm instructions from Jerome
to learn all we could about what’s happening to his precious Science
Room!
They were moving the Science Room to the new classroom building, and classes hadn’t begun, but we talked with the teachers, and this week --about a month into the school term -- we received photos via the magic of “Whatsapp.”
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| A scientifically accurate 1/2 size plastic human skeleton |
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| Science teachers opening the skeleton. Dept. Head Eric Jim is second from the left. The five AGSHS science teachers – integrated science, chemistry, biology, physics, and agriculture – use the Science Room about once/week or as needed for practicums. |
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| What the heck???? |
Three junior high schools – Life International, Morning
Star, and Catholic Government School – regularly send students to the Science
Room for practicums. Akyimen-Brawere JHS
has asked to join occasionally. Ahlesunna has been invited and hopefully will
accept. All of these schools are within walking distance---within about 30-45
minutes. Teacher Jim schedules these schools for end of the day, so students can walk straight home after the practicums.
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| If you want to know what they're looking at, call Jerome!! |
In addition, during the one-month school holidays in 2015,
science vacation classes were held every day for junior high students.
This year, thanks to our ever-generous science fans back home
in America, we supplied a scientifically accurate human skeleton, and also a little more than $1000 worth of chemicals, dry cell batteries, dessicator, and teeth and jaws of
sheep and dog (!).
We thank Evans Arloo, Western Heritage Home Operations
Manager, who traveled via tro-tro the nearly 300 km to Kumasi to purchase these
supplies from the same business that supplies the science department and
medical school at Kwame Nkrumah Science and Technology University.
The AGSHS Science Room is equipped with both computer and
overhead projectors, tables, stools, shelving, 50 scientific calculators, numerous posters,
stethoscopes, and all the materials
needed to support hands-on teaching of the JHS/SHS Ghana Education Science
curriculum.
Jerome also wrote a definitive manual of experiments to
demonstrate all the major concepts in the curriculum (reviewed by Rich Ward,
who pretended to be a junior high student!). We bring Science News Magazines, for the science teachers, who have few
intellectual resources. (Hint: if you subscribe to a science-oriented magazine,
we can help recycle your back issues!)
We thank AGSHS Science Dept Head & Teacher Mr. Eric Jim who has
worked with us from the beginning, and also Headmistress Theodora Appiah, who
well understands the importance of science education (and happens to be married
to a university chemistry professor!).
Madame Theodora took leadership of AGSHS in
January 2015, and she, Eric, and the teachers have put the science program into
high gear! It's been fun to help them with their goals! And so we thank YOU, dear Reader!
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