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Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Down on the (cricket) farm."

Students will think through and diagram an Arctic and local food web and will explore how ecosystem disruptions can impact the food webs.

These discussion prompts ask students to design a strategy for minimizing or mitigating the effects of Arctic phytoplankton blooms for one group of people.

Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "The case of the Arctic's missing ice."

Students will use resources beyond the article to answer more detailed questions on neuroscience, biochemistry and microbiology.

These discussion prompts encourage students to put themselves in the shoes of researchers studying animal weaponry, by evaluating, proposing and mapping out an experiment.

Students will explore articles about animal weaponry from the Science News archive.

Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Fight like an animal."

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.

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.

Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Rising CO2 threatens lake food webs" and an accompanying graph tracking pH.