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Opioids in the archives

These questions ask students to search the Science News archive to expand their knowledge about opioid use and misuse.

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.

Fructose’s many faces

Students will search the Science News archive for other stories about the role of fructose.

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.

Dino discoveries add up

From feathers to extinction, there's a lot to learn about dinosaurs in the Science News archive.

Water flea circus

In this activity, students will measure the effect of environmental conditions on the heart rate of water fleas.

The effects of ocean acidification

These questions explore past articles about ocean acidification in the Science News archive.

Smartphone technologies

In this two-part activity, students will complete a few simple light polarization exercises to model LCD technology and then demonstrate how a smartphone app analyzes and utilizes data to perform a specific function.

Good and bad of smartphones

Students will search the Science News archive for stories related to the powers and perils of smartphone use.

Free-fallin’

Students will determine if an object's composition and the height at which can object is dropped affects its gravitational acceleration.

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.

Top 10 countdown

In two activities, students can work in groups to play an organism matching game or create their own list of Top 10 science experiences from the semester.