Sharon's hobbies — gardening, cooking, spending time in nature — double as a toolkit for teaching elementary science. She explains concepts like plant life cycles, states of matter, and weather patterns through hands-on examples kids can relate to. Her year of full-time classroom work with younger s...

Curiosity drives young scientists, and Annie channels that by connecting classroom topics like plant life cycles, animal adaptations, and states of matter to questions kids already wonder about. Her background in physiological sciences gives her a deep well of real-world examples — from how bones gr...

Young learners are naturally curious about why leaves change color or how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly — Eric channels that curiosity into real understanding of life cycles, weather patterns, and ecosystems. His background in ecology and evolutionary biology means he can answer the endless "but...

Younger students are naturally curious about how things work, and Nathan channels that curiosity into structured observation — simple experiments, cause-and-effect questions, and vocabulary that makes science feel accessible. His experience mentoring his four younger siblings gives him an easy rappo...

Young scientists are naturally curious, and Allan channels that curiosity into structured thinking about how things work — why plants need sunlight, how magnets push and pull, what happens to water when it freezes. His biological sciences background means he can answer the inevitable follow-up quest...

Getting young learners excited about science often comes down to making the invisible feel tangible — why plants need sunlight, how magnets push and pull, what happens inside a raindrop. Amanda graduated from a STEM-focused high school and went on to earn both a biology degree and a medical degree, ...

Getting young learners excited about science means turning everyday curiosity into structured exploration — why do plants grow toward light, what makes ice melt, how do magnets work. Sugi's cognitive science background gives her insight into how children build mental models, and she uses hands-on th...

At the elementary level, science should spark curiosity — why do shadows change length, what makes a magnet stick, how does water move through a plant. Jessica's Vanderbilt elementary education training gives her structured ways to turn those questions into real learning about observation, predictio...

A psychology major at Brown, Ariel understands how children form mental models — which means she can tell when a kid is genuinely grasping a concept like force or evaporation versus just repeating a definition back. She uses that instinct to adjust explanations on the fly, connecting science ideas t...

Young learners are naturally curious about how plants grow, why animals behave certain ways, and what makes weather change — the trick is channeling that curiosity into real scientific thinking. Kristin brings a creative, hands-on approach to elementary science, drawing on her deep biology backgroun...