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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.

Students will simulate the exponential radioactive decay and half-life of carbon-14 with pennies and a food coloring/bleach chemical reaction.

This guide explores the recent discovery of a neutron star collision and encourages students to make connections to stellar evolution, gravitational waves and fusion reactions.

To better understand the life cycle of stars, students will estimate the conditions involved in stars and element formation.