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In a Mobile, Ala., elementary school, students regularly don hard hats, goggles, and lab coats to conduct science experiments. They design ramps for toy cars, observe the process of chicks hatching in ...

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 ...

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, ...

At Shaina Brenner’s school, recycling “audits” are serious business. The auditors visit the classrooms, spot-check the contents of recycling bins, and leave feedback notes about what can and can’t go ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A Valley elementary school is taking classroom lessons into the virtual world. Don Neville’s classroom at Villa De Paz Elementary is unlike any other. “I wish I had this when I ...