Imagine a classroom of curious elementary students grasping clipboards, eager to conduct an experiment to see if the small car they built can protect their egg “passenger” in a head-on collision. It’s ...
Teaching elementary school science can be a struggle. Math and English dominate the schedule in the early grades, often leaving scant time for science. And most elementary teachers don’t have a ...
New elementary teachers who promote equity in science are proving highly effective at engaging students, no matter their background, a new University of Michigan study shows. U-M researchers found ...
Stephanie Trimble, a kindergarten and first-grade STEM teacher at Brusly Elementary School in West Baton Rouge Parish, has been awarded the Shell Urban Science Educators Development Award for her ...
The committee was charged with examining the available evidence on science and engineering in preschool through elementary grades, including the approaches and strategies that can be used by teachers, ...
Long before the federal government intruded on the already wavering trust in science, the field of K-12 science education was in trouble. Proper teacher training, the deprofessionalization of ...
Three years ago Paul Saltman, professor of biology at the University of California, San. Diego, concluded that something drastic had to be done to pull the United States up from its low international ...
KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MI -- MacKenzie Skalski’s Comstock STEM Academy classroom isn’t your traditional elementary science class. Her fourth and fifth grade students participate in a student-led democracy ...
On Thursday, students watched Ducks players practice on the ice, who then led demonstrations of the properties of electricity and circuitry.