Gaining a Foothold for Science in the Early Elementary Grades
Jennifer Childress Self2023-11-09T14:17:24+00:00Can curriculum materials play a role? By Christopher Harris and Mingyu Feng | November 9, 2023 If the status of science instruction in the elementary grades could be described in one word, it would most likely be: undervalued. For more than twenty years, science has been undervalued across the K–5 grades with the amount and quality of science instruction varying widely. For example, the findings of the National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education over the past two decades consistently show that science receives far less instructional time than other core subjects during the early grades. The unfortunate reality is [...]