Every week at the Nysmith School in Herndon, Virginia, Philip Baselice breaks out a game to teach his class about key world events. Baselice teaches history to middle schoolers, and game-based ...

January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. For years, John Miller, a 7th-grade history teacher in King City, struggled to engage ...

Imagine entering a science classroom where rows of students sit in silence, eyes fixed on their notebooks as the teacher dictates line after line from the prescribed textbook. This is not ...

In an effort to curtail how much time young people spend playing video games, China has banned students from playing them during the school week and limits them to just one hour per day on Fridays, ...

A physicist, a gamer and two editors walk into a bar. No, this isn’t the setup for some joke. After work one night, a few Science News staffers tried out a new board game, Subatomic. This ...

I’m unboxing a huge MindWare delivery filled with brainy games and toys for my classroom. From magnetic design sets and viral Upsy Daisy flowers to Colorforms, Leaps and Legends, cooperative board ...

I learned quite a bit from a tiny robot named 2-XL. If you’re not an official Old™ like me, you may not remember this kids’ toy, which first appeared in 1978, and was a glorified 8-track cassette ...

Andre Thomas works for Texas A&M University and also for Triseum, a spin-off from the university that publishes the games developed at Texas A&M. In an effort to curtail how much time young people ...

Elementary school teachers can use these activities to enrich the study of many different science topics in the elementary curriculum. Topics are aligned with curriculum for physical science, earth ...