Educator Guides

Pair these lesson plans with articles from the October issue of Science News Explores to have students learn how researchers in Hawaii are recycling plastic trash to pave roads and give students multiple examples of oxidation and reduction, including in photosynthesis and cellular respiration.

Use news articles from the September issue of Science News to have students compare and contrast non-living SpudCells with living animal cells and learn how scientists discovered the density of distant exoplanets.sc

Check out these lesson plans paired to the June/July issue of Science News Explores and use the phenomena of dicing onions to have students discuss how liquids respond to pressure changes and introduce students to the ecological and cultural importance of the Okefenokee Swamp before asking them to create an educational conservation campaign about a […]

Check out these lesson plans paired to articles from the May issue of Science News to learn about new underwear technology and have students analyze the relationship between pressure and temperature in superconducting materials.

In these lesson plans paired to the May issue of Science News Explores, students will learn how researchers used the scientific method to study a beloved landmark and will consider the science behind future pieces of technology and how they could be used to solve a problem or design an experiment.

Pair these lesson plans with articles from the April issue of Science News to have students discuss how flower art provides evidence that ancient people had an understanding of math and learn how paleontologists use fossilized “clues” to learn about ancient species’ interactions and ecosystems.

Explore long-running research experiments while reviewing the scientific method and learn how researchers used concepts of wavelength and the electromagnetic spectrum to solve the mystery of iridescent ammolite with these lesson plans paired to articles from the April issue of Science News Explores.

In these lesson plans paired to articles from the March issue of Science News, students will compare the basics of asexual and sexual reproduction while learning the reproductive strategy of a newly invasive wasp species and will investigate the role that bark-dwelling microbes play in lessening concentrations of greenhouse gases.

In these lesson plans paired to the March issue of Science News Explores, students will explore the cosmic timeline of the universe’s evolution era by era and analyze graphs tracking bats’ predatory behavior.

In these lesson plans paired to the February issue of Science News, students will investigate how researchers applied chemistry principles to create a potential needle-free solution to deliver insulin and will answer questions about how biologically derived innovations could address technological limitations of 3-D printing.

Pair these lesson plans with articles from the February issue of Science News Explores to compare ants’ levels of group coordination and cooperation to that of humans and learn how carbon chemistry offered clues to scientists about an ancient Incan individual.

Incorporate articles from the January issue of Science News to examine a diagram on woodpecker muscle groups and relate them to human anatomy and analyze a polar bear’s place in the Arctic ecosystem.