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(July 24, 2014: See the editor's note at the bottom of this page for an explanation of the story's new headline.) When 12-year-old Lauren Arrington heard about her sixth-grade science project, she ...
Correction appended 9 U.S. eighth graders are less prepared to be the scientists of tomorrow than they were before the ...
Cardinals Local Schools sixth grade science class participated in a Skittles Science Lab recently. Students used Skittles (their rock), water and a pipet (their precipitation), and a Petri dish (Earth ...
Through a multidisciplinary approach to learning, with differentiated and student-centered instruction, GPS Middle School students strengthen these skills: creativity, critical thinking, collaboration ...
The average American parent’s science and math knowledge taps out around the sixth-grade level, according to new research. When asked to estimate the grade they’d be placed into for both math and ...
Kati Stasko did not set out to be a teacher. “If you would have told me seven years ago, while I was wading chest-deep through alligator-infested waters to help an injured manatee, that one day I ...
As California Gov. Jerry Brown joins world leaders in Paris next week after several months of campaigning to curb climate change around the world, many middle schools in his state are using science ...
To honor and memorialize the victims of the 9/11/2001 attack on the United States fifth and sixth grade students and several ...
A brick house with a raised foundation and a hardwood front porch emerged from the minds of Augusta Lewis Troup School science students — as they learned about designing resilient housing that can ...
One-sixth of a CS 105: Introduction to Computing for Non-Tech majors class plagiarized a single source on a lab assignment, according to an email sent out by the professor on Feb. 22. “It makes me ...