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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL EDUCATION
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It was interesting to learn of the teaching combinations in the secondary schools. Undoubtedly, the combinations did not follow the major anl minor work in all cases. Necessity called for some unusual combinations especially in the smaller high schools. There were teachers who taught physics, history, arithmetic, civics, and chemistry, etc. However, in the larger schools the combinations such as physics, chemistry, and general science were used. I n the largest high schools chemistry took the entire time of the chemistry teacher. The chemistry teachers of South Carolina reported that three were members of the American Chemical Society, two were members of the South Carolina Academy of Science, and seventy-three were in the South Carolina Teachers' Association. More of the teachers should be members of the scientific societies in order that they may be professionally alert. Conclusion The South in general appears to have a reputation throughout the country of being slow in education. Certainly the results of this survey do not indicate that, so far as the teaching of chemistry in the secondary schools is concerned, this reputation is warranted. The favorable showing of chemistry made in this survey can be considered as applying also to the other sciences. The survey given above will compare favorably with situations existing in other states. However, knowing the existing conditions, the state of South Carolina can demand higher levels and advance to higher standing. Bibliography ( I ) South Carolina State Department of Education, 1929 Year Report. ( 2 ) Teyas State Department of Education. 1929 Year Report. (3) Ohio State Department of Education, 1929 Year Report. ( 4 ) Iowa State Department of Education, 1929 Year Report. ( 5 ) Oregon State Department of Education, 1929 Year Report. ( 6 ) South Carolina Department of Education. Revised Rules and Regulations for the Certification of Teachers. (7) The Southern Association of Solleges and Secondary Schools. Standards for 1929.
Homemade Talkies Aid Chemistry Teaching. Homemade talking movies, made a t a cost of a12 as compared with a figure many times as much for the professional article, are being employed a t the Medical College of Virginia, Richmond. A 16-mm. home motion picture camera is used t o photograph the instructor writing chemical formulas on the blackboard. Then the pictures are subsequently run, and as they are run he talks into a microphone connected with a simple recording apparatus that makes a record on an aluminum disc. When the movies are shown t o the students, and a t the same time the record is played on a phonograph, an effect of partial synchronization is obtained.-Science Senice
