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 ...

Survey results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress show 8th graders do less scientific inquiry now than five years ago.

RICHMOND, Va. -- About 4,000 people die from drowning every year, according to the CDC. Three third graders from Powhatan County, Virginia hope their award-winning idea changes that. Mason Tovar, ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Administrators at the Alabama School of Mathematics and Science are recruiting 9th- and 10th-graders to join the state’s only tuition-free STEM boarding school. Mobile-area ...

Project-based learning – a teaching approach whereby students explore and solve real-world challenges – can improve third graders’ scientific knowledge as well as their social and emotional skills.