How do you judge the power of a simple science experiment? Step inside a 4th grade classroom—and behold the near-total silence. One recent day, elementary teacher Jamie Curbow achieved just that, as ...

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 ...

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A Valley elementary school is taking classroom lessons into the virtual world. The Prendergast Elementary School District is ...

This research examines the impact of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act on elementary science education within a Midwestern state possessing strong national education measures. Elementary teachers (N ...

GREENWICH, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Activate Learning is proud to announce the expansion of its partnership with OpenSciEd to offer OpenSciEd Elementary, a groundbreaking K-5 science curriculum ...

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The battle over Common Core education standards is playing out across the country, but a new set of requirements for teaching science is creeping into curricula without the same fanfare. Some states ...

Interactive Web-based science tutorials can be effective tools for helping elementary school teachers construct powerful explanatory models of difficult scientific concepts, and research shows the ...

The new standards call on middle school and high school teachers to build on the science of reading taught in elementary ...