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 ...

These ideas for prioritizing space—both physical and temporal—for science can help teachers give the subject the attention it ...

THE thirty-six object-lessons contained in the present volume form the third part of a scheme of lessons drawn up by the author at the request of the Liverpool School Board. They are designed for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Zero is not a good score on a test at school. But Discovery Elementary School is proud of its zero score. The zero stands for the amount of energy the school uses from traditional power sources.

Science education is rarely a priority in elementary schools. That may be changing under the Next Generation Science Standards, adopted in whole or in part by 38 states and the District of Columbia.

IN a brief introduction Prof. Cubberley states that the author's aim was “to construct a simple and helpful volume for the teacher who is called upon to teach elementary science lessons, and yet has ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. First, research on science and engineering education has focused largely on middle and ...