Barn och unga vistas allt mindre i naturmiljöer. Det riskerar att leda till en minskad förståelse för natur och miljö. Men elever som med egna sinnen får upptäcka och bekanta sig med träd och växter i en autentisk miljö utvecklar förståelse för biologisk mångfald och människans påverkan på miljön. Det visar en avhandling vid Göteborgs…

Cross-curricular writing is making gains in more schools, so Jeremy Hyler, a middle-school English teacher, offers strategies to integrate writing into science classes. In this blog post, Hyler writes that one strategy he uses is to ask students to keep their science notebooks with them, so they have more opportunities to write and draw.

Lina Hellberg, som forskar kring naturvetenskap i förskolan, vill att pedagogerna ska vara så trygga i sina kunskaper att de kan svara på barnens frågor där de dyker upp – och att natur­vetenskapen ska få vara med hela tiden.

Teaching STEM is about trial and error -- allowing students to experiment, create and learn from mistakes, writes Hilary Ayle.

Robotical, an Edinburgh, UK robotics company that introduced "Marty" in 2016 as a STEM learning tool, has announced a second-generation version that comes with new resources for the classrooms.

The STEM gender gap may have its roots in elementary school, according to a study of students in a North Carolina school district published in a peer-reviewed academic journal. Researchers found that while third-grade students scored about the same on state math tests -- regardless of gender -- male students were more likely to be…

Creativity and a sense of design aren't just personal attributes - they are skills that can be consciously cultivated and used in other subject areas, including STEM and STEAM, writes Sylvia Martinez, a former aerospace engineer who also has designed video games. In this commentary, she writes that curricula often impose artificial divides between math…

To prepare students for jobs in STEM fields, the U.S. Department of Education is shining a spotlight on how educators can incorporate technology into their classroom activities.

Many teachers use Legos in the classroom for hands-on STEM exercises, particularly as an enticement to get students who are less confident about their engineering aptitude to give it a try. Middle-school robotics teacher Ian Chow-Miller says he likes using Legos -- from the basic blocks to the higher-end robotics kits -- because his students…

How culturally responsive teaching supports STEM education.