MST APES Peer Mentoring at Lacamas

9th grade MST APES students demonstrated their abilities this week with the highest level of assessment: the ability to teach their learning targets to others. To do so, they peer mentored and taught Ms. Sturges’ class of 2nd graders from Lacamas Elementary the concepts of biodiversity and sustainability. They accomplished this by building EcoColumns and recording their observations, and they also practiced methods of measurements for the health of their systems based on dissolved oxygen levels in their aquatic chamber and the qualities of the soil in their terrestrial chambers through ribbon and texture tests. These students all proved that they got their hands dirty this week!