Oak Park River Forest High School junior Maya Souden first noticed the Investigative Research Design and Innovation class when she was a freshman flipping through the school’s offerings and planning ...

Bronco, a 7-year-old pit bull mix, inspired adopter and STEM teacher Luc Sproles to pilot a doghouse project in an eighth-grade class at William Penn Middle School in Indianapolis, Indiana. An ...

Persell Middle School eighth graders, Sydney Maggio, Avery Salvaggio and Kaitlyn Kennedy show off their cell-analogy projects created in Lina Scoma’s AT Science class. Persell Middle School eighth ...

Growing up, we all had to do all kinds of science projects in school. For Baby Boomers, here are several classic science ...

School supplies can be very expensive, especially when they involve curriculum that addresses the sciences. United Airlines is stepping in by donating $1.25 million to DonorsChoose.org to fund ...

A new, dual-credit robotics class for eighth graders at Douglas MacArthur Middle School in Prospect Heights is allowing students to dive deep into engineering and other STEM fields while addressing ...

Middle schoolers embody a messy no-man’s land: young enough to get excited by stickers and play-acting, but mature enough to crave autonomy and opportunities to improve their world. Younger ...

Science is usually one of the more hands-on subjects in middle school: Students design research questions, draw diagrams, and conduct experiments. But the country’s 8th graders are less likely to do ...