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In this activity, students will measure the effect of environmental conditions on the heart rate of water fleas.

These questions explore past articles about ocean acidification in the Science News archive.

In this two-part activity, students will complete a few simple light polarization exercises to model LCD technology and then demonstrate how a smartphone app analyzes and utilizes data to perform a specific function.

Students will search the Science News archive for stories related to the powers and perils of smartphone use.

Students will determine if an object's composition and the height at which can object is dropped affects its gravitational acceleration.

Use this short section to explore and compare other articles about measurements of the equivalence principle as reported by Science News since 1924.

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.

Students will compare and contrast one of the Top 10 stories of 2017 with an earlier related article from the Science News archive.

Students will design and execute an experiment to determine the relative sensitivity of touch receptors in different areas of human skin using a two-point threshold test.

Students will search the Science News archive for previous articles about stem cells and gene therapy, and compare potential applications.

Students will simulate the exponential radioactive decay and half-life of carbon-14 with pennies and a food coloring/bleach chemical reaction.

Students will search the Science News archive for stories related to frozen mosses, radioactive carbon-14 dating and global warming.