A special coding challenge for elementary school students was held at a local museum ahead of a big weekend of science and technology.

Science education is rarely a priority in elementary schools. That may be changing under the Next Generation Science Standards, adopted in whole or in part by 38 states and the District of Columbia.

Science and engineering instruction is under-resourced and not highly prioritized in preschool through elementary schools, with engineering receiving even less attention. These concerns are ...

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 ...

Few decisions have greater impact on the effectiveness of science teaching in the nation's schools than the process of selecting instructional materials. This selection determines to a large extent ...

Problem: Curiosity is broadly distributed. Opportunity is not. Solution: Bay Area volunteers are bringing science experiments into the low-income classrooms, thrilling youngsters with hands-on ...

To eager and curious eyes, Torrey Pines Elementary School in La Jolla hosted its 25th Science Discovery Day on April 12 after a few years off because of the COVID-19 pandemic. All of the school’s ...

SEDRO-WOOLLEY — Shameem Sherwin’s fifth-grade science classroom at Evergreen Elementary School had a stench to it this year. But in a good way as her classes of could-be scientists studied decomposing ...