Educator Guide: Featured Activities

The debris cloud from two merging neutron stars (illustrated) forged a lot of heavy elements.
CI Lab/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
About this guide
This guide collects activities that are not associated with specific issues of Science News. The activities cover a range of currently relevant scientific topics, and allow students to analyze data, review core concepts and design their own experiments.
This Guide Includes:
The Past, Present and Future of Spaceflight
Fermentation and Pasteurization in the classroom
Lake scavenger hunt
Form fits function in extreme environments
Seeing faces everywhere
Extraordinary scientists are ordinary people
Exploring materials
Making sense of animal worlds
Exploring STEM career paths
Century of Science scavenger hunt
The physics of flying seeds
Examining bias through fossils
Thinking through climate solutions
Telling science stories with comics
Reimagining plastics recycling
Think like a science journalist
A century of science podcast
Planning ahead to prevent future disasters
Building better boxes based on beetles
- Exercise type:Activity
- Topic:Science & Society
- Category:Research & Design
- Category:Diversity in STEM
Diversity in science
- Exercise type:Activity
- Topic:Science & Society
- Category:Research & Design
- Category:Diversity in STEM
How bias affects scientific research
The hunt for other worlds
Creating a vascular plant’s ecological niche
Mission to Mars
Visual models for how a virus spreads
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