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Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "An open book."

To explore the steps of experimental design, students will plan an experiment to make an ideal sugar cookie.

Students will explore articles about animal weaponry from the Science News archive.

Students will come to better understand black holes and Hawking radiation by deriving expressions and calculating theoretical data that relate to these phenomena.

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.

These discussion prompts cover the biology and chemistry of opioids and ask students to brainstorm strategies for preventing or reversing opioid addiction.

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

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.

These discussion prompts ask students about how isotopes can be used to label and track chemical molecules, and about sugars and the enzymes they interact with.

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.

These discussion prompts cover the major groups of dinosaurs and their time on Earth, as well as how we study them today.

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