Cognitive Development Elementary School Students 
k12 Digest
JULY 24, 2025
During Colleen’s 30 years of teaching chemistry, she became aware that her students were struggling with basic concepts, including fluency with the symbols for the elements themselves. The Case for Molecular Literacy Students entering college are, for the most part, molecularly illiterate.
eSchool News
JANUARY 15, 2024
Key points: Early exposure to STEM education is critical for students See article: Building a STEM pipeline needs to start in kindergarten See article: Here’s why STEM Career Days are a great idea For more on STEM education, visit eSN’s STEM & STEAM page In today’s fast-paced world, STEM education has become imperative for global progress.
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eSchool News
APRIL 1, 2024
Inspiring district leaders, classroom teachers, and school staff have found unique and innovative ways to engage students in learning, motivating students to see beyond classroom walls and truly immerse themselves in learning. Elementary-level STEM education fosters our future innovators.
Edsurge
MAY 18, 2020
Announcements about school closures came, perhaps ominously, on Friday, March 13. Many educators and students learned that buildings would be closed beginning the following Monday, with no real sense of when they might reopen. It’s hard for students to focus on academics—or really anything else—if they’re hungry.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 24, 2017
public schools is that 51 percent of all students come from low-income families. For years, research has shown that socioeconomic status is associated with differences in school readiness, cognitive development and achievement. Here are three ways to jumpstart learning for students of poverty.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
CHICAGO — At first glance, it looks like your standard recess: Elementary school students, bundled up in warm jackets, hats and mittens, laugh and play outside on a crisp, cloudy fall day in the Windy City. Every student is occupied with one activity or another—even those on the jungle gym.
Edsurge
AUGUST 3, 2016
He believed children’s cognitive development and scientific thinking grew through stages of self-constructed knowledge structures—and that they need to actively work through exploratory activities that allow them to discover and construct their own world. In his view, there was hope for every child.
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