Good science education at the earliest grades is supremely important, but in most classrooms it gets short shrift. Studies have found that children in kindergarten are already forming negative views ...

F. Chris Curran has received funding from the AERA Grants Program with support from the National Science Foundation. The annual back-to-school season is filled with high hopes for making new friends, ...

Free lesson plans aligned to NGSS, student activity sheets, and integrated animations help students understand science and chemistry in everyday life. Inquiry in Action is a FREE teacher resource of ...

Hands-on learning helps build confidence, yet only half of students have access to these experiences in science lessons, according to a new LEGO ® Education report. LEGO ® Education Science aims to ...

When children start kindergarten, sizable gaps in science knowledge already exist between whites and minorities—as well as between youngsters from upper-income and low-income families. And those ...

Kindergarten classrooms nationwide have changed dramatically since the late 1990s and nearly all of these changes are in the direction of a heightened focus on academics, particularly literacy, ...