Earth and Space Sciences
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Physics
Remembering Stephen Hawking
Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Stephen Hawking's legacy will live on."
- 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.
- Earth
Journey to the age of the dinosaurs
These discussion prompts cover the major groups of dinosaurs and their time on Earth, as well as how we study them today.
- Life
Dino discoveries add up
From feathers to extinction, there's a lot to learn about dinosaurs in the Science News archive.
- Chemistry
Surveying a sensitive ecosystem
These discussion prompts cover the pH scale, the solubility of gases, food webs and how organisms react to climate change.
- Earth
The effects of ocean acidification
These questions explore past articles about ocean acidification in the Science News archive.
- Earth
Carbon dioxide’s ecological footprint
Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Rising CO2 threatens lake food webs" and an accompanying graph tracking pH.
- Physics
When science and gravity meet
These discussion prompts encourage students to explore concepts related to gravity and how scientists measure it.
- Physics
The equivalence principle in the archive
Use this short section to explore and compare other articles about measurements of the equivalence principle as reported by Science News since 1924.
- Space
Testing the equivalence principle
Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Galileo experiment re-created in space."
- Life
Boosting your background knowledge
These discussion prompts help students gain a better understanding of key vocabulary and concepts covered in the Top 10 articles of 2017.
- Life
Tracking the latest developments
Students will compare and contrast one of the Top 10 stories of 2017 with an earlier related article from the Science News archive.
