On a bright, sunny day, a group of first-graders eagerly begins a science investigation called “Shadow Town.” The teacher gathers them in a circle and asks, “What causes shadows?” It’s a good question ...

Just four years into her career as an elementary school teacher, 26-year-old Kaylee Hutcheson has established herself as a resident expert on evidence-based reading instruction at Hawthorne Elementary ...

Arizona State University and Dreamscape Learn launched Arizona's first virtual reality mobile classroom—a 46-foot trailer—to provide middle schoolers with immersive science education, transforming ...

Today’s post is the latest in a series examining how teachers can help students see how learning about science and math are relevant to their lives. Today’s post will focus on science. Bertha Vazquez ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — It's the perfect combination of kids and science. Muddy Sneakers is a parent's dream when it comes to separating kids from screens and it's all in the name of education. "Muddy ...

The world is full of things to learn. Where to start? How to choose what to pay attention to? What motivates someone to seek new knowledge? The desire to learn is partly a preference for novelty: we ...

Before adopting AI tools, it is important that schools think critically about whether these tools will further divorce students from how their brains are primed to learn. A teacher sits at a laptop ...

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