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These discussion prompts encourage students to think about language families and language-focused technology.

This guide covers different types of personalized genetic testing and the medical information that can or cannot be learned from such testing.

These discussion prompts examine student knowledge of DNA and genes, and then explore DNA sequencing and gene therapy.

Students will explore and compare articles about genomes in general, and the human genome in particular.

Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "An open book."

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

This guide explores an increasingly ubiquitous technology: the smartphone. How do its sensors work, what data do they collect and how can we keep ourselves safe from its spying eyes?

In this two-part activity, students will complete a few simple light polarization exercises to model LCD technology and then demonstrate how a smartphone app analyzes and utilizes data to perform a specific function.

These discussion prompts ask students to describe how various smartphone sensors work, and analyze three graphs related to data gathered by such sensors.

Students will search the Science News archive for stories related to the powers and perils of smartphone use.

Students will answer questions about how smartphone apps could be used to spy on people and how such spying might be prevented.

This guide explores the equivalence prinicple, a foundation of Einstein's general theory of relativity, and the effects of low-gravity space environments on materials and the human body.