Educator Guide: SN 2017 Year in Review

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
The articles in this issue revisit the Top 10 scientific discoveries from 2017. Students can focus on details reported in the articles, follow connections to earlier articles about related research and pursue cross-curricular connections to other major science topics in biology, earth science, physics and astronomy. In an activity, students can play a game and/or review information from this issue and present it to the rest of the class in the form of an infographic, skit or game. Students may also create their own list of Top 10 science experiences from the semester to begin a semester review.