The Smithsonian Science Education Center is Transforming K-12 Education through Science, in collaboration with communities across the globe Carol O’Donnell Historic images of students and educators ...

Growing up, we all had to do all kinds of science projects in school. For Baby Boomers, here are several classic science projects that just about everyone had to do at least once.

Through Indigenous weaving workshops and environmental science projects, the Smithsonian engages in co-learning projects to support culturally responsive education Emma Saaty Alaska Native field ...

School science teachers live for “aha moments,” those brilliant periods when a student understands and, more importantly, grows excited about connecting an electrical current, identifying an anemone ...

Americans are skeptical of science. Public ambivalence has shown itself clearly in concerns over the safety and necessity of vaccines and in the dismissal of public health guidance designed to curtail ...

The committee will review research on science investigations and engineering design for middle and high school students conducted since publication of America’s Lab Report (2006) to inform the ...

“Would the world be a better, or even a different, place if the public understood more of the scope and the limitations, the findings and the methods of science?” This question was taken up in 1985 by ...

Science literacy and expertise are essential to the function of modern society. Understanding concepts and processes of science, including chemistry, help to make sense of and to address the complex ...