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 ...

WEST MICHIGAN — While thunderstorms can be dangerous, they can also bring incredible light shows from strikes of lightning. Have you ever wondered how lightning forms? In this experiment, you'll be ...

More than 100 families gathered Thursday night at Mill Creek Elementary School in Independence for a hands-on science event designed to get kids excited about STEM.

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TOLEDO, Ohio — We are less than two months away from one of the biggest and rarest solar eclipse events of a lifetime. Dozens of students at Raymer Elementary School got a little taste of what to ...

Few decisions have greater impact on the effectiveness of science teaching in the nation's schools than the process of selecting instructional materials. This selection determines to a large extent ...

It's 8 a.m. on a Wednesday, and Iowa City West seniors Krisha Kapoor and Zoe Scott are teaching second-graders at Weber Elementary about environmental science in an outdoor garden built for that ...

Before smartphones, tablets, and digital labs, science class for Baby Boomers meant getting hands-on with experiments that ...