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Students will answer questions based on the Science News article “The next champs of green chemistry.”

These discussion prompts encourage students to discuss and compare the work and background of two SN 10 scientists to explore the varied paths to becoming a successful researcher.

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.

This guide connects the radioactive carbon-14 dating of newly exposed mosses in the Arctic to the bigger story of climate change.

These discussion prompts cover the basics of radioactive decay and carbon-14 dating, as well as concepts related to climate change.

Students will search the Science News archive for stories related to frozen mosses, radioactive carbon-14 dating and global warming.

Students will answer questions about how scientists measure the age of newly thawed mosses in the Arctic, and the implications of those scientists' findings.

Through the SN 10: Scientists to Watch list, this guide explores what it means to be a scientist and focuses on the plant-related work of two particular scientists on the list.

These discussion prompts cover chloropasts, chlorophyll, photosynthesis and related reactions, and solar cells.

Students will search the Science News archive for stories about photosynthesis and plant roots.

These questions focus on articles about two of the 2017 SN 10: Scientists to Watch. The scientists are studying how plant roots seek water and developing artificial photosynthesis.

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.