YORKTOWN HEIGHTS - PVC pipe, duct tape, zip ties, screws, small buoy floats and motorized propellers — these were the materials science teacher Patrick Burke handed his class to make underwater ROVs, ...

In this lesson, students will investigate the nature of radioactivity and the effect of both distance and shielding materials on different radioactive sources using a Geiger-Muller tube with a counter ...

This is my second post in this series. Check out the first one here. Two years ago I was a member of a hiring committee at my school. Along with two administrators, one other teacher, and a parent, I ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a continuing series on the practical takeaways from research. Over the past year, students have had to learn a lot about a phenomenon that has dominated their lives: the ...

A former Upper West Side science teacher who torched two kids with a fireball during a dim-witted experiment has landed a plum job instructing educators — on science-teaching techniques. Anna Poole, ...

Shea True won’t soon forget her first chemistry class on the first day of her sophomore year at Lawrence North High School. In fact, she plans to chronicle it in The Lynx, the school’s yearbook. Shea, ...