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 ...

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Elementary school science students in Leigh Ann Anderson’s classes skip the textbooks and get straight to the experiments. Four fourth graders huddle over short magnetic wires attached to the top and ...

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 ...

Pupils in 80 percent of California’s elementary classrooms spend less than an hour a week learning science, and 16 percent spend no time on it at all, University of California-Berkeley researchers ...

Skeletons are often seen as creepy or scary, but bones are one of the most important parts of our body. Without a skeleton we would be a puddle of skin (gross!) unable to move or breath, and our ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Some Portsmouth parents have launched a petition against Cradock Elementary School that levies a number of accusations, with one notably being the elimination of science from the ...

Marcia C. Linn, Catherine Lewis, Ineko Tsuchida and Nancy Butler Songer Between 4th and 8th grade, American students fall behind on international norms, whereas Japanese students continue to perform ...