Helping students see how what they are learning in school is relevant to their lives, hopes, and dreams enhances motivation. It can also be challenging to teachers who are tasked with covering a lot ...
Chicago, Illinois – The significance of computer science education in schools is growing exponentially as it empowers children with the essential skills to navigate and excel in the digital world.
During my time as a kindergarten teacher, I learned three major lessons about our youngest learners’ relationship to science. Specifically, I learned that elementary school students are predisposed to ...
As a student teacher I witnessed extreme inequalities in how science is communicated and taught at California elementary schools. My first teaching experience was as a STEM (science, technology, ...
Just six percent of high school students in the United States take computer science classes. The numbers are even lower for elementary and middle school. But you’d never know that if you dropped by ...
Science Education at Fred Hutch has teamed up with the Greater Seattle Bureau of Fearless Ideas (BFI), a non-profit youth serving organization, to offer partnership programs for elementary-aged ...
When Carrie Lombardi left her New York City finance job to teach at Burgundy Farm Country Day School, she was surprised to hear clucking from a colleague’s classroom one day. The students, she learned ...
Elementary students got a chance to enjoy some gooey fun while learning a science lesson ahead of the holiday break.
One of the highest-performing classrooms is in one of the highest-performing schools in Fort Worth ISD. Students have been working in groups to design and engineer gadgets and gizmos that operate ...
School science teachers live for “aha moments,” those brilliant periods when a student understands and, more importantly, grows excited about connecting an electrical current, identifying an anemone ...