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Liam Squires, a fifth-grader at Virginia's HM Pearson Elementary, made the find while reading the Exploring Science All Around Us textbook, published in 2016 by Virginia-based Five Ponds Press.
What happened: In a unanimous vote, the board adopted new textbooks for elementary and middle school science as well as for accelerated ninth and 10th grade English classes.
Gov. Edward G. Rendell today said students in 14 more school districts will benefit from hands-on science learning starting this fall as part of his “Science: It’s Elementary” ini… ...
Compared with the large, A-rated districts B-rated Volusia hopes to join this year, the district stands alone in its lack of elementary math and reading textbooks.
Elementary school science students in Leigh Ann Anderson’s classes skip the textbooks and get straight to the experiments. Four fourth graders huddle over short magnetic wires attached to the ...
The board discussed new science textbooks, a tentative facilities budget and the debate on cell phone use in schools at its first meeting of 2025.
The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) has designated them one of the six elementary schools named Mississippi Emerging Science of Reading Schools (SOR) for the 2024-25 school year.
Next month California students will start to be tested on the state’s new science standards for the first time, but with little instruction in the subject in elementary school and few aligned ...