This is what you want to see in a science classroom: Less memorizing. Fewer ready-made science experiments. Students designing their own hands-on investigations in pursuit of scientific questions.

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Do the newly released results from the 2015 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) throw cold water on project-based learning? The results, issued this week, examined instructional ...

Teachers must be able to combine several important kinds of knowledge in order to successfully implement classroom science instruction for concept learning. These include knowledge of science content, ...

Peacocks are spectacular for any zoo-goer to behold. But when Marion Petrie and her colleagues in England began intently watching a large group of peafowl in 1987, they had a very specific goal in ...

inquiryHub's Middle School curricula integrate and promote computational thinking in STEM and Science classrooms through providing engaging, hands-on learning experiences through a school-based ...

In the video posted below, Derek Muller gives a puzzle to some innocent bystandarts. “I’m going to give you a three number sequence, and I have a rule in mind that these numbers obey. I want you to ...