Search Results

This guide explores the evolution of animal weaponry and encourages students to think think through animal weaponry experiments.

These discussion prompts encourage students to put themselves in the shoes of researchers studying animal weaponry, by evaluating, proposing and mapping out an experiment.

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

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

This guide explores what it means to be a dinosaur, and features a classroom activity focused on real fossils.

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.

From feathers to extinction, there's a lot to learn about dinosaurs in the Science News archive.

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

Students will explore how rising carbon dioxide is threatening a lake food web, and will measure how the environment affects the heart rate of water fleas.

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

These discussion prompts cover the pH scale, the solubility of gases, food webs and how organisms react to climate change.