KINGSTON — If his classmates tend to prefer soda over water, 8-year-old Jake Matosky advised them earlier this week to “Rethink Your Drink.” It wasn’t just a cute slogan, but the title of a project he ...

Woodstock Elementary School (WES) was bustling with activity the evening of Thursday, May 4, as families, teachers, and staff enjoyed an interactive, museum-style science fair put on by students in ...

A local elementary school took their science project above and beyond the text books on Thursday. Dry Creek Elementary School launched a weather balloon into the stratosphere with a payload of ...

A Valley elementary school is taking classroom lessons into the virtual world. The Prendergast Elementary School District is ...

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 ...

Energy is a hot topic these days, and Daniel Ortiz Middle School science teacher Cara Buis plans to keep that interest rolling by having her eighth-grade pupils participate in a two-part science ...

A group of rising Lake County-area fourth grade students recently placed second in a national K-12 science competition for their project about using stem cells to treat damaged lungs — particularly as ...

When the first satellite was launched into space in 1957, it triggered a high-level crisis between the world’s largest superpowers. More than 60 years after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, ...

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 ...

As a student teacher I witnessed extreme inequalities in how science is communicated and taught at California elementary schools. My first teaching experience was as a STEM (science, technology, ...