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Cookieology: Experimental design 101
To explore the steps of experimental design, students will plan an experiment to make an ideal sugar cookie.
Surveying animal weaponry
Students will explore articles about animal weaponry from the Science News archive.
Escaping from a black hole
Students will come to better understand black holes and Hawking radiation by deriving expressions and calculating theoretical data that relate to these phenomena.
A life revisited
Students will explore and compare articles about Stephen Hawking and black holes from the Science News archive.
Opioid data dose
Students will work individually or in small groups to study different parts of the CDC website on opioids and summarize their findings for the class.
Opioids in the archives
These questions ask students to search the Science News archive to expand their knowledge about opioid use and misuse.
Fracking for fructose
Students will learn more about the enzymatic modification of sugars through hydrolyzing sucrose and to build molecular models of fructose, glucose, sucrose and a common artificial sweetener, sucralose.
Fructose’s many faces
Students will search the Science News archive for other stories about the role of fructose.
Land of the lost
In this activity, students will identify fossils using hand magnifiers or stereomicroscopes, determine which era each fossil is from and how the fossils might have formed over time.
Dino discoveries add up
From feathers to extinction, there's a lot to learn about dinosaurs in the Science News archive.
Water flea circus
In this activity, students will measure the effect of environmental conditions on the heart rate of water fleas.
The effects of ocean acidification
These questions explore past articles about ocean acidification in the Science News archive.