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

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 ...

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 ...

The third-graders looked puzzled when asked what they liked best about science. No answer. OK, then, next question: "What is science?" a visitor asked the children in a hallway at Bessie Carmichael ...

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 ...

The St. Vrain Valley school board approved new elementary and middle school science curricula at its Wednesday meeting, following a committee review and teacher pilots of the new materials this school ...

California’s elementary schools spend too little time teaching science as volcano models and germination kits vanish to focus more on English and math, a new statewide study says. And when science is ...

Clark College hosted close to 300 elementary school students from 17 different schools during an invitational science olympiad tournament Nov. 14. Some schools had two teams, so the organizers ...

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