Ladue Middle School - Stream Team #: 76 - Date formed: Dec. 4,
1989 - Location: Ladue - For more info about Stream Teams: see
links below. Whenever the Missouri Stream Team program
celebrates an anniversary, so does Stream Team No. 76. Elizabeth
Petersen organized Ladue Middle Schools Stream Team when the
program was still in its infancy. A self-described “nature
girl,” Petersen grew up playing in creeks, so it was natural for
her to adopt the small stream behind her house. As a seventh-
grade science teacher, she has made caring for creeks part of
her curriculum. With the help of other Ladue Middle School
science teachers, she introduces more than 250 youths to water-
quality monitoring each year. Working Stream Teams into the
science curriculum gives students a chance to be scientists,
rather than just reading about scientists. They learn about
science through hands-on experience gathering data in the real
world. Parents who tag along on field trips are amazed to see
their children transformed from kids into