Educator Guides

Use articles from the December 16 & 30, 2023 issue of Science News to have students investigate a recent study about how light, and not just heat, may aid in the evaporation of water and how describing aspects of The Great Magellan Telescope can provide many examples of scale and relative values.

Check out recent articles from the December 2 issue of Science News to have students navigate some unexpected turns in the mathematics of a Möbius strip and apply their knowledge of electrostatic attraction forces to explore a chemical adaptation of desert plant.

Use news articles from the November 18 Science News issue to show students an animation of an exoplanet collision along with infrared and visible light graphs to have them assess related scientific claims and get students wondering about the 2023 Nikon Small World photo contest winner or any scientific image from the article archive.

Integrate recent articles from the November 4 Science News issue to have students explore how scientific inquiry and data can help size up the probability behind myths and how Earth’s tectonic plate history may explain the structure and location of pink diamonds today.

Engage students with news articles from the October 7 & 21, 2023 double issue about record-breaking snake gulp proportions and recent studies that fully sequenced Y chromosomes for the first time and teach about relative values vs. absolute measurements and genetics.

Dive into recent news articles from the September 23 issue of Science News to have students learn how applying AI to existing technology in self-driving cars might solve safety problems and to explore the chemical processes of photosynthesis and how changes in environment can impact plants’ ability to photosynthesize.

Use recent news articles from the September 9 Science News issue to have students evaluate hypotheses made by scientists based on evidence gathered about defensive bird behaviors and to light up your class with applications of light and atomic structure in newly identified fluorescing frogs.

Check out lesson plans paired to recent news articles from the August 26 Science News issue covering how bees and other hive-makers have evolved with efficient hive geometry to accommodate changes in their colony’s needs and the progress and major challenges the U.S. is facing as it transitions away from coal-fired power plants to renewable […]

Climate extremes are impacting human health and inspiring new technology. This guide provides lesson plans paired to recent news articles covering a new thermal fabric prototype and its ability to regulate temperature and how wildfire smoke impacts the air quality index and human health.

Baseball fans love numbers and explaining every nuance of baseball statistics. In this Guide, students will learn how climate change is boosting home runs and study the physics behind the increase in homers.

Scientists study the tiny fruit fly to understand how organisms work. In this Guide, students will learn how scientists mapped the nerve cells in a larval fruit fly brain — a task that took 12 years — and learn about those cells.

Playing around with ChatGPT is enormously fun, and the technology can be useful. But there are pitfalls too. In this Guide, students will learn about AI and the benefits and challenges posed by the chatbot.