Mackenzie Bryan,18, of Paradise, California, says that science was a simple fact of life as she was growing up. She built robots with her brother, designed buildings substituting chocolate for ...

Children learn how to use their five senses to learn about the world around them. In this lesson, children learn how to use their five senses to learn about the world around them. They learn how ...

The annual back-to-school season is filled with high hopes for making new friends, meeting new teachers – and, from the view of many policymakers – promoting gains in science achievement. Scientific ...

Good science education at the earliest grades is supremely important, but in most classrooms it gets short shrift. Studies have found that children in kindergarten are already forming negative views ...

Hands-on learning helps build confidence, yet only half of students have access to these experiences in science lessons, according to a new LEGO ® Education report. LEGO ® Education Science aims to ...

Preschool teachers don’t feel comfortable teaching science—and it shows in their classroom practice, according to a new study. But science education for young children doesn’t need to be a slog or a ...

Research into the academic skills of five-year-old children shows that parents' beliefs and cooperation with their ...

When children start kindergarten, sizable gaps in science knowledge already exist between whites and minorities—as well as between youngsters from upper-income and low-income families. And those ...

Kindergarten classrooms nationwide have changed dramatically since the late 1990s and nearly all of these changes are in the direction of a heightened focus on academics, particularly literacy, ...

The block room at the Randolph School in Wappingers Falls, N.Y., is bustling with preschool builders. One boy places a tall, wood, cross-shaped block under a newly erected archway, explaining to ...