Educator Guides

This guide explores dietary supplements available in the United States and the regulations surrounding them.

This guide reviews several experimental methods that might keep a patient’s own immune system from rejecting a transplanted organ.

This guide introduces students to some of the scientists featured on the SN 10: Scientists to Watch list. Students can explore the questions that motivate these scientists and their myriad career paths.

This guide covers experimental design, social science surveys, statistics and the importance of reproducible results.

This guide explores research that suggests language learning happens over a much longer period than typically thought.

This guide covers different types of personalized genetic testing and the medical information that can or cannot be learned from such testing.

This guide explores the evolution of animal weaponry and encourages students to think think through animal weaponry experiments.

This guide reviews the life and work of Stephen Hawking and asks students to work individually or in small groups to derive equations and calculate a theoretical amount of Hawking radiation emitted by a black hole.

This guide explores what happens to the body during an overdose of opioids and asks students to research and summarize CDC data on opioids.

This guide explores a variety of sugars and how they are modified in the body -- as well as how scientists follow those modifications.

This guide explores what it means to be a dinosaur, and features a classroom activity focused on real fossils.

Students will explore how rising carbon dioxide is threatening a lake food web, and will measure how the environment affects the heart rate of water fleas.