HS-PS1 Matter and Its Interactions
- Chemistry
When drugs and body meet
These discussion prompts cover the biology and chemistry of opioids and ask students to brainstorm strategies for preventing or reversing opioid addiction.
- Health & Medicine
Tracking opioid deaths
Questions based on the Science News article "Fatal fix" ask students about the effects of opioids and to analyze a graph of overdose deaths.
- 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.
- Chemistry
Track those sugars
These discussion prompts ask students about how isotopes can be used to label and track chemical molecules, and about sugars and the enzymes they interact with.
- Humans
Following fructose through the body
Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Small intestine is first stop for fructose."
- 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.
- 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.
