How do you introduce engineering practices and skills to young learners? Smithsonian educators suggest it starts with empathy. Emily Porter & Melissa J. B. Rogers The Smithsonian's National Zoo and ...

Did you know that teaching children empathy skills early in life can increase their confidence and help them better handle stressful situations? Empathy is critical to success throughout life and is a ...

SPCA Monterey County will offer two one-day youth camps during the school holiday break, providing students with hands-on activities and lessons about animal care, shelter operations and veterinary ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (SNZCBI) and National Head Start Association (NHSA) have announced today, March 31, a yearlong partnership to provide free nature- and ...

Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. Did you know that animal sounds can be crucial to ...

Have you ever assigned personalities to your pets and explained their behaviors in terms of human motivations, such as imagining that a cat is being stubborn? The attribution of human characteristics, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate Cassada shares and makes sense of K-12 education practices. Research affirms the powerful ways creative expression can help ...

On a wall at Trader Joe’s are numerous drawings of shelter animals, each with their own biography, each an attempt to help those animals find homes. They are the result of Kids, Cats and K9s, a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kerry McDonald writes about innovative K-12 learning models. A common criticism regarding microschools, learning pods, unschooling ...