When the weather outside is frightful, the right activity can transform students’ pent-up energy into laughter, movement, and ...

Toddlers and preschoolers love playing with blocks. In addition to developing motor skills and hand-eye coordination, block play can also help foster creativity, enhance problem-solving ability and ...

Play may seem like fun and games, but new research shows that specific kinds of play are actually associated with development of particular cognitive skills. Data from an American nationally ...

Most students are used to learning in the classroom, but at Harding University Partnership School in Santa Barbara, students can learn from their classroom, which is what happened when a group of ...

Our "Tools of the Trade" series is taking a look at some of the iconic objects that form a vital part of our educational lives. For an upcoming piece, I'm reporting on how young children learn through ...