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PROMOTE SCIENCE LITERACY WITH
SCIENCE IN THE NEWS
Help your students become confident in thinking and communicating intelligently about scientific concepts, events and happenings—and their implications-- in the world around us. Our classroom newsletter SCIENCE IN THE NEWS features:
**Timely news events**Discussion questions**Graphic organizers**Research topics**
Teachers use SCIENCE IN THE NEWS to encourage not only reading, writing, and discussing, but also the inquiry skills of hypothesizing, generalizing, and inferencing.
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The deepest parts of our oceans are among the least explored and most unknown places on Planet Earth. Through the use of submarines and remotely operated devices, scientists are discovering what life exists in the deep ocean. Students will learn about what movie director James Cameron (Avatar, Titanic, and more) saw on his recent dive
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It’s a problem produced by past pet owners of pythons. They once started out as pets, but became too much for their owners to handle, and the Everglades is the perfect place for these slithery orphans. Now they’re known as the “bullies of the ecosystem”, eating the lunch of the native habitat, and making
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Many people are interested in solar energy these days. It is a clean alternative to our reliance on fossil fuels. There are many solar projects around, but most of them involve single homes or buildings. What would you do if you wanted to harness enough solar energy to meet the needs of millions of people?
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We’ve all seen our share of extreme weather. This issue of SITN encourages you and your students to discuss it in the classroom.
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Do you have time for reading this? Maybe not, but you would if you could travel faster than the speed of light. Are you skeptical? You should be–you’re a scientist. And scientists are taught to be skeptical. That’s why they test theories over and over again.
This article, and the related activity, discusses what happens
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The earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan last March had many consequences. Among them was that many houses, cars, furniture and other flotsam washed into the ocean. The debris got picked up by the ocean currents and is making its way across the Pacific Ocean toward the west coast of the United States. This article
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Where are you on the food chain? Well, if you are a jellyfish, you’re pretty much down at the bottom.
Thankfully plankton are even lower. Otherwise, there’s not much left for you to eat. Besides, plankton are delicious! It’s your favorite meal, and the ocean has a lot of it.
But, what happens when there are too
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Scientists have learned many lessons from studying nature, and this latest news shows how the science of photosynthesis is being used to generate a unique form of electricity. This activity focuses on the clues that a common leaf has in the generation of solar energy, which may someday provide light to people, instead of only
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An earthquake of 8.9 magnitude, the most powerful in Japan’s history, occurred in northeast Japan near Sendai, a coastal city known as The City of Trees, on March 11, 2011. It led to a terrible chain of events that affected the lives of millions of people. A look at the science behind these events, along
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Sound is all around us, and it helps us to understand and enjoy our lives. We love to listen to music and talk with each other. We enjoy sounds made by instruments in bands and orchestras, and we like to listen to the sound on TV and in the movies. We listen to sounds in
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