Team science: Elementary students learn about wetlands from high schoolers

Published 4:06 pm Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Mount Si High School AP science students and Snoqualmie Elementary School participated in a joint project to restore the Kimball Creek slough between the two school buildings.

The program, funded by a Snoqualmie Valley Schools Foundation grant, involved the students removing invasive weeds, using gloves and tools purchased with the grant. High School students led fifth graders through a series of ecology focused stations highlighting the importance of wetlands as habitat and then worked together to remove invasive blackberry and ivy in the slough.

Participating teachers included Shannon Wenman, who teaches AP Environmental Science at the high school, Andrew Rapin, who teaches AP Biology at the high school, and Danette Hruska, who teaches fifth-grade science.

A group of AP Biology high school students leads a discussion about wetlands with fifth graders from Snoqualmie Elementary, at a collaborative project day to clean up Kimball Creek Slough in early June.

Students gather on the Snoqualmie Elementary School playground for a group photo on a day of learning about wetlands and cleaning up the Kimball Creek Slough.