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Why is the sky blue?  What is thunder?  How does lightning happen? Why do rainbows happen when it rains?  What...

It’s a few weeks before school starts. Or mid-year.  Your supervisor tells you that you are now teaching a new...

Are you looking for fun and engaging activities to introduce sciency-vocabulary to your students? We got you! We’ll outline three...

Science is a fascinating subject, and with all there is to explore and all the hands-on activities there are to...

Phenomena-based learning is one of the latest hot topics in education, specifically in science education. Our recently revised national science...

Retrieval PracticeWhen students present information they become an expert on the topic. In educational circles, this is called retrieval practice....

The Knowledge GapMany elementary science textbooks do not provide scientific vocabulary, leaving students without the foundational language of science to...

The greatest scientists and inventors in the history of the world, like Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton and Archimedes all started...

Why did you leave academia to write science books for kids?Dr. Woodbury I grew up in a small town in...

Can you recall a time you felt completely confident at something? How did it make you feel? Did it come...