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DNA fingerprinting

In this activity, students will analyze simulated DNA data from different people to understand how such data can be interpreted and applied.

The human genome reviewed

Students will explore and compare articles about genomes in general, and the human genome in particular.

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.