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 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 Where are you on the food chain? Well, if you are a jellyfish, you’re pretty much down at the bottom. 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 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 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 Do you remember the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears? Goldilocks was in a house in the forest. She saw three bowls of porridge. When she tasted the first bowl, she said, ―This porridge is too hot. The second bowl was too cold. When she tasted the third bowl, she said, This Science in the News article, Oil and Water Don’t Mix, discusses a current topic we have all read about, heard about, and seen on TV—the major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. For many, this was a frightening event, especially for our children. An ecological disaster like this one generated many questions |
 
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