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Students will learn about three global monitoring networks and the types of scientific data collected by each. Additional prompts encourage students to consider the purpose of these networks.

These questions, based on the Science News article “Radioactive cloud traced to Russia,” ask students to identify a series of events and list and evaluate evidence.

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

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

Students will review volcano monitoring data and learn how to use it to predict possible volcano behavior.

These discussion prompts explore volcanic explosivity and collapse, the ecosystem and health effects of eruptions and how to keep people safe during natural disasters.

These discussion prompts ask students about drinking water contaminants and drinking water treatment methods.

Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Drinkability."

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.

Students will search the Science News archive for stories related to frozen mosses, radioactive carbon-14 dating and global warming.