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

Students will answer questions based on the Science News articles "Flowing toward a sustainable future" and "Mapping stars across generations."

These discussion prompts encourage students to reflect on their own academic progress, on the state of science and on the concept of reflection in physics.

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

To explore the steps of experimental design, students will plan an experiment to make an ideal sugar cookie.

Students will work individually or in small groups to study different parts of the CDC website on opioids and summarize their findings for the class.

These discussion prompts cover the biology and chemistry of opioids and ask students to brainstorm strategies for preventing or reversing opioid addiction.

Questions based on the Science News article "Fatal fix" ask students about the effects of opioids and to analyze a graph of overdose deaths.

Students will learn more about the enzymatic modification of sugars through hydrolyzing sucrose and to build molecular models of fructose, glucose, sucrose and a common artificial sweetener, sucralose.

These discussion prompts ask students about how isotopes can be used to label and track chemical molecules, and about sugars and the enzymes they interact with.

Students will answer questions based on the Science News article "Small intestine is first stop for fructose."

These discussion prompts cover the pH scale, the solubility of gases, food webs and how organisms react to climate change.