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.
- Physics
A life revisited
Students will explore and compare articles about Stephen Hawking and black holes from the Science News archive.
- Health & Medicine
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.
- Health & Medicine
Opioids in the archives
These questions ask students to search the Science News archive to expand their knowledge about opioid use and misuse.
- Chemistry
Fracking for fructose
Students will learn more about the enzymatic modification of sugars through hydrolyzing sucrose and to build molecular models of fructose, glucose, sucrose and a common artificial sweetener, sucralose.
- Humans
Fructose’s many faces
Students will search the Science News archive for other stories about the role of fructose.
- Life
Land of the lost
In this activity, students will identify fossils using hand magnifiers or stereomicroscopes, determine which era each fossil is from and how the fossils might have formed over time.
- Life
Dino discoveries add up
From feathers to extinction, there's a lot to learn about dinosaurs in the Science News archive.
- Chemistry
Water flea circus
In this activity, students will measure the effect of environmental conditions on the heart rate of water fleas.
- Earth
The effects of ocean acidification
These questions explore past articles about ocean acidification in the Science News archive.
- Physics
Smartphone technologies
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.
- Tech
Good and bad of smartphones
Students will search the Science News archive for stories related to the powers and perils of smartphone use.
- Physics
Free-fallin’
Students will determine if an object's composition and the height at which can object is dropped affects its gravitational acceleration.
