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Asking for directions on Mars

Students will learn how to use an interactive online map of Mars and will identify features and make generalizations about Martian geography.

Telling two scientists’ stories

Students will answer questions based on the Science News articles "Flowing toward a sustainable future" and "Mapping stars across generations."

Escaping from a black hole

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

Mind over body

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.

A life revisited

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

Remembering Stephen Hawking

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

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.

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.

When science and gravity meet

These discussion prompts encourage students to explore concepts related to gravity and how scientists measure it.

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.

Testing the equivalence principle

Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Galileo experiment re-created in space."

Analyzing a top article

Students will read and summarize one of the Top 10 stories of 2017, as reported by Science News.