As part of a leadership project, junior Grace Bugbee came up with a program called Beyond the Brave. It allows fifth graders ...

Buckets, kitchen utensils, rocks, paint, an old staircase with plastic planters, little toy cars, tiny shovels and forks. These are what fifth-graders at Manzanita Elementary School used to build ...

From colorful turkeys to sturdy toothpick tables to seaworthy foil vessels, the students in Miss Higgs’ fifth-grade class at Freeland Elementary put their engineering minds to work. Students worked to ...

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A number of Livermore parents with children attending Jackson Avenue Elementary School rallied together to advocate for the reinstatement of a longstanding fifth grade tradition. Since returning from ...

Photo courtesy of HUNTER HART Fifth-grade teacher Hunter Hart brought one of his homing pigeons to class for a science lesson. Homing pigeons have been prized for their navigational abilities for ...

HANNIBAL — Fifth graders in the Hannibal Central School District recently took part in a hands-on STEM experience as part of The Hovercraft Project, a dynamic program that combines science, technology ...

Code Purple shelters in Asheville serve on Wednesday and Thanksgiving amid cold temps. Code Purple shelters will be open in Asheville on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 27, Asheville-Buncombe ...

Some professors resist using teamwork in their classes because they mistakenly believe that team projects are too difficult to grade. One issue is that, as educators, we often only evaluate the team ...

Rebecca Erdman and Christopher White have been an item since their senior year of high school, with one critical six-month break along the way. By Shivani Vora Rebecca Ashley Erdman and Christopher ...

Pasco County fifth grade classes need improvement in science, right away. Early assessments aimed to monitor children’s progress in key subjects showed that 35% of district fifth graders were on track ...

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