Science Articles For Kids In 8th Grade
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Why are American students so far behind the rest of the world in school?
I was reading a Newsweek article and it claims America is at last place for the top math and science when comparing to developed countries. I see in school eveything is sooo slow paced and i am in most honors clases. In english, most of the kids took around 8-9 minutes (i was counting) reading 5 pages doublespaced when it should be done very fast not like 2 minutes but not as long! In high school, kids dont even care for tests and barely study. And i am in one of the top school in New Jersey.
And they gave up on reading!! In middle school, we had logs and had to read 20 mins a day but all of a sudden you come to high school and you just read 3 novels a year. Thats great but should they enforce us to read outside of school?? I hate work and school but we are in it for college and have noticed the attitudes of students for school are negative when in first grade they would be eager to do work and would be disciplined. what we need is discipline for kids.
What do you think??
You are right. America has the worst school education in terms of middle school through High school. But it has one of the best Universities. It’s ironic. If you don’t give basic education to your kids, how would they do well in Universities. Students from India and China come after High school and go straight to UCLA and Harvard or Yale. I have a friend from India. her husband came after his bachelors and got 1600 in GRE and went straight to Yale in PhD department of defense.
We need to improve our education in middle school and High school, so our kids can compete with these foreign students. They lack in Math and English. How ironic is this that students from India speak better English and they have better writing skills.
Part of My 8th grade project: Solar power
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Who Eats What? Food Chains and Food Webs (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science, Stage 2) $2.95 An award-winning author and artist explain how every link in a food chain is important because each living thing depends on others for survival. “Clear, simple drawings illustrate the clear, simple text. Informative and intriguing, this basic science book leads children to think about the complex and interdependent web of life on Earth.”‘BL. Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children 1996 (NST… |
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An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (Newbery Honor Book) $5.21 1793, Philadelphia. The nation’s capital and the largest city in North America is devastated by an apparently incurable disease, cause unknown . . . In a powerful, dramatic narrative, critically acclaimed author Jim Murphy describes the illness known as yellow fever and the toll it took on the city’s residents, relating the epidemic to the major social and political events of the day and to 18th-c… |
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The Story of the Statue of Liberty $3.49 “Written for the youngest audience…the text is very simple yet manages to convey all the major events in Liberty’s creation….The full-color watercolors show amazing detail and are extremely rich.”–Horn Book…. |
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