Activity
Hands-on experiments, debates, data dives, and diagramming and design exercises put students at the center of their learning.
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Space
Asking for directions on Mars
Students will learn how to use an interactive online map of Mars and will identify features and make generalizations about Martian geography.
- Health & Medicine
Radical protection
Students will analyze a graph from the Science News article "Parkinson's pathways."
- Chemistry
Martian water challenge
Students will use common materials to design, build and test their own water purification system.
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- Earth
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.
- Humans
Tongue tied
This activity will help students understand how the similarities and differences between languages may influence language learning.
- Humans
Looking up languages
Students will explore and compare articles about languages and language learning as reported by Science News and Science News for Students.
- Life
DNA fingerprinting
In this activity, students will analyze simulated DNA data from different people to understand how such data can be interpreted and applied.
- Life
The human genome reviewed
Students will explore and compare articles about genomes in general, and the human genome in particular.
- Chemistry
Cookieology: Experimental design 101
To explore the steps of experimental design, students will plan an experiment to make an ideal sugar cookie.
- Life
Surveying animal weaponry
Students will explore articles about animal weaponry from the Science News archive.
- Math
Escaping from a black hole
Students will come to better understand black holes and Hawking radiation by deriving expressions and calculating theoretical data that relate to these phenomena.
