When: Lampeter-Strasburg school board meeting, April 7. What happened: In a unanimous vote, the board adopted new textbooks for elementary and middle school science as well as for accelerated ninth ...

The third-graders looked puzzled when asked what they liked best about science. No answer. OK, then, next question: "What is science?" a visitor asked the children in a hallway at Bessie Carmichael ...

The Sarasota County School Board got straight to business at its first meeting of the new year. The board advertised the district’s recommended instructional materials for K-12 science. Tuesday’s ...

The ideal elementary science curriculum-and its instructional counterpart-are seldom straightforward. Over the past few years the goal of improving science education in the elementary schools has ...

La Cañada Unified School Board members halted the approval process of two elementary-level science textbooks Tuesday after one parent, a scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, claimed the ...

THIS rather high-priced book completes a course in elementary science from which it is suggested that schools select subject-matter to suit their own particular needs. The earlier chapters are ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Reading Teacher is a peer-reviewed journal serving teachers and literacy professionals interested in the teaching of reading to ...

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 ...