As wildfires will continue to challenge Nevada and the West for decades to come, educators and firefighting agencies are teaming up to make sure teens gain an understanding of the complex issues ...

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For decades, high school teachers used Gregor Mendel and his pea plants to teach kids in ninth grade on up the fundamentals of genetics. Today’s kids don’t care beans about those peas. They want to ...

Workshops around the world train science teachers to incorporate particle physics into their classrooms. Picture this: A stationary object such as a vase suddenly explodes, sending fragments flying.

Two Mankato East teachers took their experimental earth science lesson for a test flight in front of a NASA evaluator this week. Dave Burgess, a high school science and astronomy instructor, and ...

Just six percent of high school students in the United States take computer science classes. The numbers are even lower for elementary and middle school. But you’d never know that if you dropped by ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Chance Duncan, a teacher from Russellville High School is a part of a class that received national recognition for the first secondary institution in the world to reproduce snake ...

In a lab room at Princeton lined with high-tech imaging and fabrication tools, high school students peered at samples of spongy gels and suspensions of microscopic beads — novel materials that ...

As California schools implement the state’s new science standards, parents at one high school are objecting to a teaching approach they say is short-changing students. At Northwood High School in the ...