Analyzing a top article
Students will read and summarize one of the Top 10 stories of 2017, as reported by Science News.
Educator Guide: SN 2017 Year in Review
The debris cloud from two merging neutron stars (illustrated) forged a lot of heavy elements.
CI Lab/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
About this guide
The articles in this issue revisit the Top 10 scientific discoveries from 2017. Students can focus on details reported in the articles, follow connections to earlier articles about related research and pursue cross-curricular connections to other major science topics in biology, earth science, physics and astronomy. In an activity, students can play a game and/or review information from this issue and present it to the rest of the class in the form of an infographic, skit or game. Students may also create their own list of Top 10 science experiences from the semester to begin a semester review.
This Guide Includes:
Boosting your background knowledge
These discussion prompts help students gain a better understanding of key vocabulary and concepts covered in the Top 10 articles of 2017.
Tracking the latest developments
Students will compare and contrast one of the Top 10 stories of 2017 with an earlier related article from the Science News archive.
Top 10 countdown
In two activities, students can work in groups to play an organism matching game or create their own list of Top 10 science experiences from the semester.