Although it was summer break, Suzanne Zettle couldn’t stay out of the classroom. The 4th-grade teacher from Patterson Elementary School took part in a Fermilab course with the hopes of bringing what ...

A narcotics detective watched proudly this weekend as his ten-year-old daughter won her fourth-grade science fair for an experiment on cocaine. Emma Bartelt's project 'Drug Sniffing Dogs' featured an ...

Elementary school science is probably where you learned a lot of what you know about how the natural world works. Take this quiz to see how well you remember the basics! Geologists study the Earth and ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. - It has become second nature: see hand sanitizer, pump hand sanitizer onto your hands. Health officials have promoted the use of hand sanitizers to help fight outbreaks of diseases and ...

My colleague Sean Cavanagh, who covers math and science here at Education Week, recently wrote an article about science labs in elementary schools. According to the story, although science standards ...

The following fourth grade science quiz for a unit called “Dinosaurs: Genesis and the Gospel” has been making the rounds on Facebook and elsewhere on the Internet, and it turns out it is real.

Science is always advancing—but kids still need to start with the basics, from how animals are born to the way electricity flows. The National Assessment of Educational Progress, which measures ...

Singapore, Hong Kong SAR, Korea, Chinese Taipei, and Japan continue outperforming all participating countries in mathematics at the fourth and eighth grades, maintaining a 20-year edge according to ...

An image purportedly showing a "4th Grade Science Quiz" hit the Internet in April 2013, showing a classroom test entitled "Dinosaurs: Genesis and the Gospel" and consisting of several true/false and ...