Science

Teachers can use these strategies to help students in grades 6 to 12 develop skills that are crucial to scientific study and exploration.

Project-based learning and an apprenticeship model helped garner community support when students decided to open a rural county’s first recycling center.

New elementary science teachers can build student engagement and enhance learning by using the explore-before-explain approach.

Climate change lessons become more relevant to students when they learn about how it’s affecting their communities.

Proficiency scales provide an excellent way to evaluate students on their scientific knowledge and skills.

This eight-step framework can help teachers create units that integrate science and social studies with math and English language arts.

Plants can illustrate how different people need different things to be nourished—and how equality and equity differ.

These strategies help elementary students grapple with the very large numbers involved in talking about time and space.

Teachers can use learning progressions to give students a framework to build on their science knowledge, fostering curiosity and enthusiasm.

Do your high school students think that taking notes during class means writing down everything you say? You can teach them effective note-taking skills that increase their engagement.

Focusing on fun during science lessons can help elementary students develop more curiosity about the world and engage more deeply in learning.

An inquiry-based, immersive approach can spark early elementary teachers’ enthusiasm for teaching this critical subject.

An inquiry-focused method gives students a way to connect scientific ideas to their experiences and apply their learning.