Q:MY fourth-grader is required to participate in his schools science fair next month. His teacher has given us very little guidance except for one very general instruction sheet. How are we ever going ...

In the words of Panther Valley science teacher Stefanie Palina, her fourth grade students demonstrated “generosity, curiosity and a collaborative spirit.” The students held a “cereal box challenge,” ...

Science scores for Vermont’s fourth-graders slipped 6 percentage points in 2013. Only 47 percent of students scored at a proficient level or higher — the lowest percentage since 2008, when the NECAP ...

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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 ...

Baking bread is about more than mixing ingredients, kneading dough, and cooking at the right temperature—it's about math, science, and reading, too.?? That was the lesson fourth-graders learned last ...

"On what day did God make dinosaurs?" This question, among others relating to the biblical creation story, was featured on a purported fourth-grade science test at a private Christian school in South ...

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 ...

During which season of the year would a rabbit’s fur be thickest? A computer program called Aristo can tell you because it read about bears growing thicker pelts during winter in a fourth-grade study ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. At a time when educators, elected officials, and corporate leaders are fretting over American students’ weak science skills, new test results show that the nation’s ...