Science lesson helps turn local students into teachers

Patrick Young, a senior at Bennett Mountain High School, helps Bianca Hernandez build her mousetrap car as students at the alternative high school led a class Oct. 6.

Bennett Mountain High School students became the teachers last week as they turned kinetic energy lessons into mousetrap racers for younger students.

Angela Fish, who teaches the simple machines science class at the alternative high school, invited students from Kathy Holland's sixth grade science class at Hacker Middle School to learn how to turn potential energy into kinetic energy.

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