With more than 30 million children stuck at home due to coronavirus-related school closings, many parents have suddenly become homeschool teachers. For parents who don't have teaching experience, ...

On the night of a big storm, I was trying to shift my son’s focus from his fear of severe weather to an exercise in counting. Using a trick I had learned as a child, we started measuring the time ...

As October wrapped up, many US schools announced plans to continue remote learning. That got the Newscripts gang thinking: Baking-soda-and-vinegar volcanoes are fine, but what can a ...

Not sure what to do for your child’s next at-home science lesson? NASA has you covered. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology is offering an educational project ...

From Play-Doh to Barbie, major toy companies have long sought a foothold in the education marketplace by offering branded classroom materials and educational videos teachers can use. But now, one ...

Kids are natural scientists, he says. With kids out of school, parents are looking for ways to keep their children entertained, while simultaneously engaged in learning. But while recommending a new ...

With the prevalence of the acronym STEM in education parlance today, interest has grown in not just promoting the subjects of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics as separate entities, ...

When the pandemic sent many students home, University of Arizona researchers and Tucson teachers quickly adapted to the challenges of teaching science without a lab or classroom. A new paper, ...