JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE 11


 g. New friends.
 h. Increased need
 for self-direction
 in making his
 own decisions.
 i. Additional
 homework.
 j. Increased home
 responsibilities.
2. Group changes:
 a. More varied
 school programs.


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 b. Different rules and regulations.
 c. Different teachers.
 d. New school activities.
 e. Departmentalization of studies'.
 For these and possible other reasons a student's life during the
junior high school years is concerned largely in reacting and ad-
justing to physical and social environment. His science studies,
therefore, should be related to his life. A unified course in gen-
eral science necessary to understand modern living is more ap-
propriate at his level than short courses in special science areas.
 General science in grades 7, 8, and 9 also connects the science
of the elementary grades-which has centered around familiar
facts-with the sciences of the senior high school-which pre-
sent the foundations of special science areas. The junior high
school sciences, therefore, serve as a link between the general
and the particular, the simple and the complex, the fact and the
principle, in the presenting of science.
 Objectives of junior high school science. Among the pur-
poses of instruction in general science the following are im-
portant:
 1. To show how environment is related to the affairs of men
in order that the pupil may more fully appreciate the services
 'The trend is toward less departmentalization in the seventh and eighth
grades.