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This guide focuses on the connections between genes and the immune response. Students will explore flu vaccines, how they are made and how the body responds to them.

Students will explore public data and information to learn more about how a flu vaccine is made and how the body responds to it.

These discussion prompts focus on gene activity and analysis, the immune system and how vaccines work.

Students will search the Science News archive for stories related to the flu and flu vaccines.

Students will answer questions about new research showing that the activity of a small number of genes can predict a young person's immune response to the flu vaccine.

This guide focuses on neurons, how they form connections and how those connections are important for learning.

Students will study prepared microscope slides and create model neurons to gain a better understanding of what neurons look like, how they connect and how learning changes these connections.

These discussion prompts focus on neurons and their signals and how magnetic resonance imaging works.

Students will search the Science News archive for other stories related to brain connections and learning.

Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Flex time," which explores how flexible brains might make for better learning.

In this activity, students will build, test and optimize their own batteries using various metal electrodes and liquid electrolytes.

Students will research specific battery types and report on what they find.