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Students will learn how interactions among the protons and neutrons in the atomic nucleus affect the properties and stability of chemical elements, and how these properties could inform the creation of future elements.

Students will use what they know about physics and human range of motion to analyze classmates’ trackways and infer how their classmates made the tracks.

Students will come up with a Jeopardy! style game or use a game provided to better understand the character traits, personality qualities and career paths of the SN 10: Scientists to Watch.

Students will define key science terms from a range of scientific fields using contextual clues from Science News articles.

This guide covers experimental design, social science surveys, statistics and the importance of reproducible results.

Students will analyze data from a graph in the Science News article "Dreaming up tomorrow's burger."

These discussion prompts ask students to define key science terms related to social science, experimental design and statistics, and to dig deeper into the methodology of experimental design.

Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Emmy Noether's vision."

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

Students will explore how rising carbon dioxide is threatening a lake food web, and will measure how the environment affects the heart rate of water fleas.

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

This guide connects the radioactive carbon-14 dating of newly exposed mosses in the Arctic to the bigger story of climate change.