Lillie Fredrick, a sixth-grader at Dzantik’i Heeni Middle School, is no stranger to the water in Juneau. She goes fishing and pulls crab pots with her family. While she understands the importance of ...

In math, students learn the concept of rates and ratios and use these tools to solve word problems. Students work on dividing multi-digit whole numbers and adding, subtracting, multiplying, and ...

For her 6th grade honors class, math teacher Ana Sepúlveda wanted to make geometry fun. She figured her students “who live and breathe soccer” would be interested to learn how mathematical concepts ...

Mrs. Roseman, my sixth grade teacher, wanted to teach us a lesson one day in 1976. It was based on a famous exersize called "blue eyes, brown eyes,'' designed in 1968 by Jane Elliot, an Iowa third ...

An accomplished young author from Nottingham, New Hampshire, is writing books about bullying, hoping that kids who read them will learn how to appropriately deal with bullying situations.Claire ...

Sixth grade was a year of major revelations. But none of them happened in the classroom. Like everyone else, I've been doing a lot of thinking since the election about the world I live in and its ...