An associate professor at UCLA uses blocks, buckets and colorful owls to teach preschool students computer science. Miryung Kim, an associate professor of computer science, began Mommy Computer ...

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While preschoolers can’t comprehend advanced scientific concepts, you should still incorporate STEM and STEAM experiments into their everyday life. These activities will spark your little one’s ...

In the 17 years she spent teaching science to middle and high school students in the Philadelphia area, Phaedra Brown developed an intuition for when her instruction wasn’t landing. More often than ...

Preschool instructors appear to lack the knowledge, skills and confidence to effectively teach their young students science -- a problem that is likely contributing to America's poor global ...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has been pressing to use the phonics-based science of reading since early 2023, mandating the approach as the sole way to teach reading in elementary schools. Now, he’s targeting ...

New research finds preschool teachers' use of sophisticated vocabulary can predict fourth-grade reading comprehension and word recognition. Preschool teachers' use of sophisticated vocabulary and ...

Grown-ups—including teachers—tend to underestimate preschoolers’ capacity to learn scientific principles as well as the length of time they’ll spend exploring such ideas, the National Science Teachers ...