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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.

These questions ask students to search the Science News archive to expand their knowledge about opioid use and misuse.

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

This guide explores a variety of sugars and how they are modified in the body -- as well as how scientists follow those modifications.

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 search the Science News archive for other stories about the role of fructose.

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

Students will search the Science News archive for stories related to the powers and perils of smartphone use.

This guide reviews the Top 10 scientific discoveries from 2017, as reported by Science News, with a focus on key concepts covered across scientific disciplines.

These discussion prompts help students gain a better understanding of key vocabulary and concepts covered in the Top 10 articles of 2017.

Students will compare and contrast one of the Top 10 stories of 2017 with an earlier related article from the Science News archive.