Educator Guides

This guide, based on the Science News article “Radioactive cloud traced to Russia,” asks students to evaluate evidence, explore global monitoring networks and use an interactive simulation to learn about elements, ions and isotopes.

This guide reviews ways to critically evaluate the trustworthiness of a news source.

This guide encourages students to assess their own views on insect eating, to explore the nutritional value of insects and to consider the challenges of insect farming.

This guide asks students to put astronomical scales in context, think about how scientists study phenomena that are distant in space or time and analyze data.

This guide explores basic topics related to gene editing and other applications of genetic engineering.

This guide asks students to connect ecological concepts to the real world and examine how science gets translated from research study to news article.

This guide explores the decades-long warming trend in the Arctic and the effects that warming is already having on sea life, including phytoplankton blooms.

This guide introduces students to the history and current state of Earth’s magnetic field, the structure of Earth’s interior and concepts related to energy transfer.

This guide explores how scientists combine approaches from different scientific fields to study ancient locomotion.

This guide covers what scientists have learned from the eruption of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano and the tools used to monitor volcanoes.

This guide reviews the history and development of the periodic table and explores the periodic table as a scientific model.

This guide reviews the biggest science stories of 2018, as reported by Science News.