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Replication Crisis Spurs Reforms
This guide covers experimental design, social science surveys, statistics and the importance of reproducible results.
Tomorrow’s lab-grown meats
Students will analyze data from a graph in the Science News article "Dreaming up tomorrow's burger."
Three steps to reproducible results
These discussion prompts ask students to define key science terms related to social science, experimental design and statistics, and to dig deeper into the methodology of experimental design.
Exploring the replication crisis in the social sciences
Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Replication crisis spurs reforms."
Article dissection for all
These comprehension questions can be used with any article from Science News.
Reflections past and present
These discussion prompts encourage students to reflect on their own academic progress, on the state of science and on the concept of reflection in physics.
Exploring Emmy Noether’s life
Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Emmy Noether's vision."

There’s Extra Time to Learn a Language
This guide explores research that suggests language learning happens over a much longer period than typically thought.
Tongue tied
This activity will help students understand how the similarities and differences between languages may influence language learning.
Speak up
These discussion prompts encourage students to think about language families and language-focused technology.
Looking up languages
Students will explore and compare articles about languages and language learning as reported by Science News and Science News for Students.
Extending language learning
Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "There's extra time to learn a language."