We often like to put labels on things, but what's happening in this classroom is hard to put your finger on. You have two teachers, one is a scientist, the other an artist. They're working together, ...

For decades, science educators have been encouraged to "stick to the science" and leave politics at the classroom door. But ...

The Smithsonian Science Education Center’s elementary curriculum, Smithsonian Science for the Classroom, received an “all-green” rating for its grades 3–5 instructional materials in a new report ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: What do science teachers view as their biggest challenges and how can they best respond to them? All of us educators face challenges. This series will explore what ...

Climate scientists overwhelmingly agree that climate change is driven by human action, but middle- and high-school teachers seem to have missed that message. The majority of teachers are not aware of ...

Jacqueline Miller and Thomas Max Roberts: "'The Martian' should be required viewing for all middle and high school students, and it should serve as a call to action for improving science education." ...

The traditional perception that there is no place for religion in the science classroom may be an obstacle for some students deeply engaging with science and developing a solid understanding of the ...

A classroom of students need only look at each other to see remarkable variation in height, hair color and texture, skin tone, and eye color, as well as in behaviors. Some differences, such as gender, ...

For years, educators have assumed that if we could only give students the right science knowledge in the right way, we’d improve both K-12 students’ understanding of science and, by extension, public ...