Comprehension
Reading comprehension questions are tied to articles and graphs from Science News.
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Life
A dinosaur defined
Students answer questions about how the definition of a dinosaur is changing with new scientific evidence.
- Earth
Carbon dioxide’s ecological footprint
Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Rising CO2 threatens lake food webs" and an accompanying graph tracking pH.
- Science & Society
The spy in your pocket
Students will answer questions about how smartphone apps could be used to spy on people and how such spying might be prevented.
- Space
Testing the equivalence principle
Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Galileo experiment re-created in space."
- Life
Analyzing a top article
Students will read and summarize one of the Top 10 stories of 2017, as reported by Science News.
- Life
Replacing a boy’s skin
Students will report on the who, what, why and how of a treatment for a rare skin disease.
- Plants
Mosses exposed and analyzed
Students will answer questions about how scientists measure the age of newly thawed mosses in the Arctic, and the implications of those scientists' findings.
- Physics
Spotting a neutron star collision
Students will answer questions related to the Science News article "Neutron star crash seen for the first time."
- Tech
That’s a wrap
Students will answer questions about how a cubic metallic robot wraps itself in different exoskeletons to perform different functions.
- Plants
The molecular lives of plants
These questions focus on articles about two of the 2017 SN 10: Scientists to Watch. The scientists are studying how plant roots seek water and developing artificial photosynthesis.
- Health & Medicine
Flu shot response foretold
Students will answer questions about new research showing that the activity of a small number of genes can predict a young person's immune response to the flu vaccine.
- Humans
Probing the brain’s connections
Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Flex time," which explores how flexible brains might make for better learning.
