Observing and documenting organisms and the way they live in natural areas is an ancient art that can be traced to tens of thousands of years before the present. The Stone Age cave paintings left behind by the prehistoric human ancestors bear testimony to this assertion. The millennia-old art that …
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What can the Magic School Bus teach grownups about engaging kids with science
For decades, children over the world have traveled along with a wacky teacher, named Miss Frizzle, who drives the Magic School Bus. There are Magic School Bus books, two cartoon television series, and a video game, with the goal of getting more kids into science.
Read More »In Ohio, Phonics-Based Science Of Reading for Preschoolers
After mandating science of reading as the only approach in elementary schools, the state is offering preK teachers free training and bonuses
Read More »In Ohio, Phonics-Based Science Of Reading for Preschoolers
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has been pressing to use the phonics-based science of reading since early 2023, mandating the approach as the sole way to teach reading in elementary schools. Now, he’s targeting preschools and younger children, this time with a carrot and no stick. DeWine and the state Department …
Read More »The Big Bang—Proven Science?
Many years ago the media excitedly announced that scientists had proved the big bang. Many Christians were troubled as the big bang contradicts God’s Word.
Read More »The 50 greatest innovations of 2024
The 37th annual Best of What’s New awards.
Read More »17 of the Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Books of 2024
You’ve probably figured out by now that the Lit Hub staff reads a lot of literary fiction—but we also read a lot of weird shit. I’m talking odd novellas full of magical realism, I’…
Read More »McCourt School’s data science Career Lab provides a virtual forum and expert guidance for future policymakers – McCourt School of Public Policy
In the growing data science field, McCourt School MS-DSPP graduates are sought after for their technical skills and public policy prowess.
Read More »The Ten Best Science Books of 2024
From a deep dive on a fatal space shuttle disaster to a study of a dozen iconic trees, these are our favorite titles this year
Read More »Scientists Think Earth’s First Life Forms Were Basically Born in a Hot Tub
Early biology may not have been an ocean exclusive.
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