“So class, since we have finished the chapter on photosynthesis, I would like each of you to write down as many steps involved as you can remember. Once you have done that, please arrange your desks ...

(This is the last post in a five-part series. You can see Part One here; Part Two here; Part Three here and Part Four here.) The new “question-of-the-week” is: How can teachers use questions most ...

“My mother made me a scientist,” recalled physicist Isidor Rabi, Nobel Prize laureate. “‘Izzy,’ she would say, ‘did you ask a good question today?’” Another Nobel laureate, Elie Wiesel, has likewise ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A New York teacher has come under fire for a lesson in which he expressed skepticism over the theory of evolution, the ...

The new question-of-the-week is: How can we encourage students to develop their own questions? And, once they create them, what’s next? In Part One, Mary Beth Nicklaus, Kevin Parr, Silvina Jover, and ...