Seventh grade science projects are a perfect way to spark curiosity while building STEM skills through hands-on learning. From kitchen chemistry to DIY engineering challenges, these activities are ...

The Arbor Day planting is more than just a ceremonial act. For 5th grade teacher Mrs. Wilson, it serves as an extension of classroom learning. She has brought her students to participate each year ...

The cast of 1 Minute Talk Show puts a guest's elementary knowledge to the test with a series of basic and likely forgotten ...

Fifth graders recently learned about engineering through a hands-on demonstration by Bruce Bassett from Brown and Caldwell.

Trumpet blares, fading sounds of heartbeats and a ringing alarm clock. These aren’t sound effects for a movie — rather, for ...

Evanston/Skokie School District 65 fifth graders danced, sang and coded at the second annual BitCrush showcase at Chute Middle School Saturday. Hosted by Northwestern’s Tangible Interaction Design and ...

Scientists can’t be everywhere all at once, as much as they’d like to. Many of the problems citizen science helps solve are concerned with spreading the net wider – or getting more helping hands on ...

The school science fair isn't just about vinegar and baking soda eruptions from papier-mâché volcanoes. One 14-year-old made a remarkable — and concerning — discovery. Forbes detailed how eighth ...

Some writers focus on moral subtext in their works. Others, an overarching lesson. But for Andy Weir, there’s only one driving approach to creating his bestselling novels: science first. “There’s ...

The Gazette’s story last week about a “study” run by UMass Economics Department Chair Christian Rojas is a perfect example of what’s so deeply wrong with academia [“Use of AI in the classroom doesn’t ...