SUNY Geneseo's Assistant Professor Mackenzie Gerringer and 13 biology undergraduates and alums partnered with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Ocean Exploration program to ...

Biology teachers develop engaging curricula, including lab experiments and other scientific investigations; present lessons; and evaluate student performance. High school biology teachers also set and ...

The Smithsonian Science Education Center’s elementary curriculum, Smithsonian Science for the Classroom, received an “all-green” rating for its grades 3–5 instructional materials in a new report ...

It's a cloudy July afternoon in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and MIT Edgerton Center Instructor Amanda Mayer is using brightly-colored plastic to build proteins. She takes a small yellow block and moves ...

Teaching encompasses everything Fairmont Senior High science teacher Allison Ralston is passionate about. “I get to be really hands on and in-depth with science topics ranging all the way ...

For years, educators have assumed that if we could only give students the right science knowledge in the right way, we’d improve both K-12 students’ understanding of science and, by extension, public ...

In this chapter we focus on how the changes you make in your instruction can interact with what is happening beyond your classroom and school. We look more closely at how an assessment system can work ...

Rather than have students memorize definitions and facts about a science topic such as light, an effective first grade teacher today would have students investigate various types of objects under ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—Reading textbooks. Taking notes. Pop quizzes. Research papers. An experiment or two. Those are often the first, and only, things that come to mind when you imagine a college biology ...

Tibetan monks at Sera Jey Monastery in Mysore, India, experience using microscopes for the first time. Courtesy of Dan Pierce, CC BY-NC-ND It would be quite appropriate for a college professor to ...

(NewsNation) — The overhead lights in most American classrooms have never been the subject of much parental concern. But a growing research suggests they should be. Scientists studying the ...