Category Archives: In the Classroom

This is a cute story about students and teachers talking about Pluto’s status change. There are a number of good points made in this story, such as, science changes all the time to deal with new discoveries, and facts dictate … Continue reading →

It’s really cool to see that other’s working at a school beside the science teacher is interested in helping the kids learn more about the subject. My kudos go out to the School Resource Deputy, a sheriff’s deputy assigned to … Continue reading →

It turns out that even the simplest of experiments and science classroom projects can be dangerous in some way. A few months back, the fifth-graders at Franklin’s Jefferson Elementary contracted salmonella, a nasty bacterial infection, from owl pellets, grayish, hardened … Continue reading →

The West Palm Beach library is offereing science seminars for kids. West Palm Beach· The building blocks of science were laid out on the table. Baking soda, vinegar, a two-liter soda bottle, apple juice and Alka-Seltzer tablets. A half-dozen children … Continue reading →

Congratulations to Santa Rosa and Escambia counties for launching a school initiative called I LOVE Science. Apparently, it is a mentoring program where volunteers come into the classroom to teach about science. “I LOVE Science comes out of a national … Continue reading →

This year, it counts. Florida students have taken state science exams for the past few years, but those were trial runs. This March, the science portion of the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Tests will be factored into the grade schools receive … Continue reading →

Here’s a very well-stated, clear declaration about evolution (pdf) from 67 national acadamies of science. Bottom line: teach it, it’s science, it’s important. We, the undersigned Academies of Sciences, have learned that in various parts of the world,within science courses … Continue reading →