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The truth behind animal brawls

Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Fight like an animal."

Remembering Stephen Hawking

Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Stephen Hawking's legacy will live on."

Tracking opioid deaths

Questions based on the Science News article "Fatal fix" ask students about the effects of opioids and to analyze a graph of overdose deaths.

Following fructose through the body

Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Small intestine is first stop for fructose."

A dinosaur defined

Students answer questions about how the definition of a dinosaur is changing with new scientific evidence.

Carbon dioxide’s ecological footprint

Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Rising CO2 threatens lake food webs" and an accompanying graph tracking pH.

The spy in your pocket

Students will answer questions about how smartphone apps could be used to spy on people and how such spying might be prevented.

Testing the equivalence principle

Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Galileo experiment re-created in space."

Analyzing a top article

Students will read and summarize one of the Top 10 stories of 2017, as reported by Science News.

Replacing a boy’s skin

Students will report on the who, what, why and how of a treatment for a rare skin disease.

Mosses exposed and analyzed

Students will answer questions about how scientists measure the age of newly thawed mosses in the Arctic, and the implications of those scientists' findings.

Spotting a neutron star collision

Students will answer questions related to the Science News article "Neutron star crash seen for the first time."