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Genes Foretell Flu Shot Response
This guide focuses on the connections between genes and the immune response. Students will explore flu vaccines, how they are made and how the body responds to them.
Catching the flu
Students will explore public data and information to learn more about how a flu vaccine is made and how the body responds to it.
Your body as watchdog
These discussion prompts focus on gene activity and analysis, the immune system and how vaccines work.
Facing the flu through time
Students will search the Science News archive for stories related to the flu and flu vaccines.
Flu shot response foretold
Students will answer questions about new research showing that the activity of a small number of genes can predict a young person's immune response to the flu vaccine.
Flex Time
This guide focuses on neurons, how they form connections and how those connections are important for learning.
How do neurons form connections?
Students will study prepared microscope slides and create model neurons to gain a better understanding of what neurons look like, how they connect and how learning changes these connections.
Your inside guide to the learning brain
These discussion prompts focus on neurons and their signals and how magnetic resonance imaging works.
The amazingly malleable brain
Students will search the Science News archive for other stories related to brain connections and learning.
Probing the brain’s connections
Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Flex time," which explores how flexible brains might make for better learning.
Using Science News to develop a research question and hypothesis
Students will use Science News as a resource for discovering a research question that interests them and developing a testable hypothesis.
Science News as research inspiration
Students will discuss the scientific details that are left out of short news reports and explore how these brief reports can lead to ideas for original research.