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Unbalancing the carbon cycle
This activity covers where carbon is stored in the Earth, how carbon moves through Earth’s various spheres and how humans are impacting that carbon flow.

Nobel Prize Winners Announced
This guide, based on Science News’ article “Nobel prize winners announced,” asks students to summarize the discoveries that won the prizes, create a timeline that puts one prize in context and explore activities related to batteries from our Digital Library.
And the Nobel science prizes go to…
Students will answer questions based on the Science News article “Nobel Prize winners announced.”
Fungi are the next green chemistry champs
Students will answer questions based on the Science News article “The next champs of green chemistry.”
Many Moore transistors?
After watching a video about transistors, your class can use these discussion prompts to analyze transistor technology and predict future trends in computer processing.
Pushing computers to the limit
Students will answer questions based on the Science News article “Computer chip milestone reached.”

Radioactive Cloud Linked to Russia
This guide, based on the Science News article “Radioactive cloud traced to Russia,” asks students to evaluate evidence, explore global monitoring networks and use an interactive simulation to learn about elements, ions and isotopes.
Atoms, ions and isotopes, oh why?
Students will use a PhET Interactive Simulation to understand the definitions, similarities and differences of elements, ions and isotopes. Then students will explore the Science News journalism archive to find current science research examples that apply these concepts.
A nuclear whodunit
These questions, based on the Science News article “Radioactive cloud traced to Russia,” ask students to identify a series of events and list and evaluate evidence.
Chirpy jerky
Students will test insects' nutrient compositions and compare that data with similar data from conventional snack foods.
Move into a hermit crab’s shell
These discussion prompts connect concepts including energy, competition, adaptation, speciation, natural selection and chemical and physical changes to a real-world example.
Surveying the hermit crab housing market
Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Hermit crabs are drawn to the dead."