This is the first part of a two-part story about changing classroom culture. Read part two to learn what change this teacher made to help students value growth over grades. Over winter break in 2015, ...
HUNTINGTON BEACH – Dominic Sammartano and Athena Ramirez lean over opposite ends of a 4-foot photo of soil pulled from the core of Lake McCarrons in Minnesota, pointing to alternating layers of dark ...
Travis Kilbourne holds up a glass jar filled with preserving fluid and stares at the small brown object floating inside. He looks at it from the side, then from below. Finally, he turns to his ...
In a drab hearing room in Austin, Tex., members of the State Board of Education, seated at small desks arranged in a broad, socially distanced circle, debated whether eighth grade science students ...
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Creating a bioactive habitat with students can give them a window into the natural world while easing the upkeep for class pets and plants. Bioactive terrariums and aquariums are self-contained ...
That’s the motto of Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy in Oakland, a public magnet school focused on the STEM fields: science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Essentially, the entire ...
Social class can account for differences in how parents coach their children to manage classroom challenges, a study shows. Such differences can affect a child's education by reproducing inequalities ...
Online Virtual Labs- A collection of virtual labs created in collaboration with Purdue University K-12 Outreach. Science Demonstrations- A collection of science demonstrations can be done in the ...
LEE — In Paula Duhon's sixth-grade science class at Lee Elementary School, students aren't afraid to ask questions and the teacher isn't afraid if she doesn't have the answers. During an April 4 class ...
KENTWOOD, Mich. (WOOD) — Inside East Kentwood science teacher Carl Warfield’s class, books take a backseat to ball pythons. “When you say ‘snakes in Kentwood’ they usually go ‘I know where that’s at’ ...
Joseph Ferguson is on an Australian Postgraduate Scholarship attached to an Australian Research Council Discovery Project. The traditional perception that there is no place for religion in the science ...