One young student, a third-grade girl, wanted to explore the effect of different amounts of stored energy on toy cars, perhaps in preparation for when she’ll be driving her own car one day. Switching ...

My colleague Sean Cavanagh, who covers math and science here at Education Week, recently wrote an article about science labs in elementary schools. According to the story, although science standards ...

[austiwawa] was playing around with one of those simple linear motors people build as friendly little science experiments. There’s an AA battery in the middle of a set of magnets. When you put it ...

The annual PTO sponsored Tilden Elementary Science Fair in February encouraged students to present independent projects and explore science through hands-on, interactive activities. “All student ...

Perry Elementary fourth graders became scientists for the day and created their own Matter Monsters during a science program presented by Science Explorers Inc. on Feb. 19. Putting on lab coats and ...

(1) A Laboratory Manual of Experiments in Physics. By Prof. Leonard Rose Ingersoll. Pp. ix + 220. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.; London: McGraw-Hill ...