Science Learning, Kindergarten through Eighth Grade
	The Board on Science Education (BOSE) conducted a consensus study on how children in kindergarten through eighth grade learn science. Currently, research on science learning resides within several fields including cognitive science, developmental psychology, science education, and learning theory. The expertise of the committee members reflected these diverse bodies of research. Through a series of fact fact-finding meetings and review of the relevant research literatures, the committee considered how children learn science; critical stages in children’s learning of science; how the present body of research can strengthen science teaching among diverse student groups; and what research remains to be undertaken. The final report for this study, Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8, provided a significant contribution to the literature on subject-based learning along with the National Research Council’s Mathematics Learning Study, Adding It Up and the study on reading, Starting Out Right.
With its emphasis on research in learning, this study built upon the report, How People Learn. The science learning study was sponsored by The Merck Institute for Science Education, The National Science Foundation and The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Products

Report/Report Brief/FAQ

Resources

Commissioned Papers

Meetings

November 4 – 5, 2004	Agenda (with links to presentations)
March 14 - 15, 2005	Agenda (with links to presentations and papers)
June 16 - 17, 2005	Agenda (with links to presentations and papers)
September 29 – 30, 2005	Closed meeting (No agenda available)
January 27 - 28, 2006	Closed meeting (No agenda available)

Symposium

Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8 Symposium	Agenda

Committee

Committee Membership

Staff
Heidi Schweingruber, Co-Study Director
Andrew Shouse, Co-Study Director
Victoria Ward, Senior Program Assistant