SPENCER — How much food does a cougar need to survive a month in the wild? What does an owl eat every day? What sorts of animals and non-animals affect whether or not an animal or a person can survive ...

A sixth grade class on Mount Desert Island is creating the building blocks for next generation pioneers by solving one of the ...

(July 24, 2014: See the editor's note at the bottom of this page for an explanation of the story's new headline.) When 12-year-old Lauren Arrington heard about her sixth-grade science project, she ...

The average American parent’s science and math knowledge taps out around the sixth-grade level, according to new research. When asked to estimate the grade they’d be placed into for both math and ...

LEE — In Paula Duhon's sixth-grade science class at Lee Elementary School, students aren't afraid to ask questions and the teacher isn't afraid if she doesn't have the answers. During an April 4 class ...

Thirteen-year-old Lauren Arrington has been busy on the media circuit these past few weeks, doing interview after interview about the sixth-grade science project that landed her in a published ...

Through a multidisciplinary approach to learning, with differentiated and student-centered instruction, GPS Middle School students strengthen these skills: creativity, critical thinking, collaboration ...

Kati Stasko did not set out to be a teacher. “If you would have told me seven years ago, while I was wading chest-deep through alligator-infested waters to help an injured manatee, that one day I ...

AMHERST, Wis. (WSAW) - Sixth-grade science students at Amherst Middle School are ditching textbooks for hands-on learning as they work to reduce their school’s energy consumption. It’s part of the ...

Luz Chamorro’s Fourth-period science class at Gunston Middle School in Arlington, Virginia, is the May Class of Kids­Post. The 25 sixth-graders enjoy reading, basketball and cake. We have only one ...