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In this activity, students will build, test and optimize their own batteries using various metal electrodes and liquid electrolytes.

Students will use Science News as a resource for discovering a research question that interests them and developing a testable hypothesis.

Students can search the Science News archive for stories about student research at the International Science and Engineering Fair, ISEF.

These discussion prompts focus on the nature of bacteria and types of antibiotics, as well as methods for dealing with antibiotic resistance.

Students will search the Science News archive for stories related to battery research.

Students will work in groups to explore available data and research various aspects of climate change and then present their findings to the class.

Working in pairs, students will analyze a graph of data from one of the cancer experiments described in "Cancer's sweet cloak."

Students will explore the history of cancer therapy research by searching the Science News archive.

These questions, based on the Science News article "Cancer's sweet cloak," highlight observations about cell-surface sugars and their ability to hide cancer cells from the immune system.

These questions focus on gravitational waves, gravitational wave detectors and how observing gravitational waves can improve our understanding of the universe.

These student questions focus on autonomous vehicles and the nature of research that will support their widespread use.

Students will design, build, test and optmize their own light-based detector for waves (a simple optical seismometer) and will explore how this detector relates to more sophisticated gravitational wave detectors.