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Melissa Kowalski, a science teacher at Put-in-Bay School in Ohio, was named the 2026 Shell Science Teaching Award recipient ...

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 ...

How do you judge the power of a simple science experiment? Step inside a 4th grade classroom—and behold the near-total silence. One recent day, elementary teacher Jamie Curbow achieved just that, as ...

During the spring of 2020, the global education community faced tremendous disruption as it transitioned to emergency remote teaching in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfamiliar with the ...

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 ...

The Elementary Science Olympiad, an annual event focused on inspiring Hamilton County youth through hands‑on STEM learning, was held yesterday and brought together hundreds of elementary students from ...

Teams from 62 elementary schools competed for medals and trophies on May 11 at one of the largest and longest-running Science Olympiad competitions in the nation. Approximately 2,800 students, ...

Bradoaks Elementary Science Academy is a public school located in Monrovia, CA, which is in a large suburb setting. The student population of Bradoaks Elementary Science Academy is 388 and the school ...

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