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Students will come to better understand black holes and Hawking radiation by deriving expressions and calculating theoretical data that relate to these phenomena.

These discussion prompts focus on some of Stephen Hawking's most notable discoveries and ideas, as well as the disease that destroyed his nerve cells.

Students will explore and compare articles about Stephen Hawking and black holes from the Science News archive.

Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Stephen Hawking's legacy will live on."

Students will work individually or in small groups to study different parts of the CDC website on opioids and summarize their findings for the class.

These discussion prompts cover the biology and chemistry of opioids and ask students to brainstorm strategies for preventing or reversing opioid addiction.

Questions based on the Science News article "Fatal fix" ask students about the effects of opioids and to analyze a graph of overdose deaths.

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.

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.

Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Small intestine is first stop for fructose."

These discussion prompts cover the pH scale, the solubility of gases, food webs and how organisms react to climate change.

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