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Robot Re-creates a Tetrapod’s Moves
This guide explores how scientists combine approaches from different scientific fields to study ancient locomotion.
Step into the shoes of a scientist studying ancient locomotion
These discussion prompts encourage students to apply their knowledge of experimental design.
Following an ancient path
Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Robot re-creates a tetrapod's moves."

What Makes a Dinosaur?
This guide explores what it means to be a dinosaur, and features a classroom activity focused on real fossils.
Land of the lost
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.
Journey to the age of the dinosaurs
These discussion prompts cover the major groups of dinosaurs and their time on Earth, as well as how we study them today.
Dino discoveries add up
From feathers to extinction, there's a lot to learn about dinosaurs in the Science News archive.
A dinosaur defined
Students answer questions about how the definition of a dinosaur is changing with new scientific evidence.

SN 2017 Year in Review
This guide reviews the Top 10 scientific discoveries from 2017, as reported by Science News, with a focus on key concepts covered across scientific disciplines.
Boosting your background knowledge
These discussion prompts help students gain a better understanding of key vocabulary and concepts covered in the Top 10 articles of 2017.
Tracking the latest developments
Students will compare and contrast one of the Top 10 stories of 2017 with an earlier related article from the Science News archive.
Analyzing a top article
Students will read and summarize one of the Top 10 stories of 2017, as reported by Science News.