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The SN 10 Game
Students will come up with a Jeopardy! style game or use a game provided to better understand the character traits, personality qualities and career paths of the SN 10: Scientists to Watch.
The languages of the fields
Students will define key science terms from a range of scientific fields using contextual clues from Science News articles.
Pick your battles
These discussion prompts encourage students to put themselves in the shoes of researchers studying animal weaponry, by evaluating, proposing and mapping out an experiment.
Surveying animal weaponry
Students will explore articles about animal weaponry from the Science News archive.
The truth behind animal brawls
Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Fight like an animal."
Mind over body
These discussion prompts focus on some of Stephen Hawking's most notable discoveries and ideas, as well as the disease that destroyed his nerve cells.
Opioid data dose
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.
When drugs and body meet
These discussion prompts cover the biology and chemistry of opioids and ask students to brainstorm strategies for preventing or reversing opioid addiction.
Opioids in the archives
These questions ask students to search the Science News archive to expand their knowledge about opioid use and misuse.
Tracking opioid deaths
Questions based on the Science News article "Fatal fix" ask students about the effects of opioids and to analyze a graph of overdose deaths.
Track those sugars
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.
Fructose’s many faces
Students will search the Science News archive for other stories about the role of fructose.