Thursday, July 8, 2021

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Welcome to The Cheat Sheet, a weekly newsletter for educators and parents from Science News for Students !

Every Monday morning, you’ll receive an e-mail from us listing the age-appropriate, topical science news we published the previous week — highlighting readability scores and FREE classroom resources associated with each story. We’ll also introduce you to other resources on our site and potential opportunities for you or your students. Finally, we’ll take a look at ongoing or upcoming events or anniversaries and provide relevant stories from Science News for Students and our sister publication Science News , including links to trusted outside sources.

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Top 5 most-requested resources for parents and educators

Classroom/discussion questions: These questions, which accompany every feature story and a growing number of news stories, are meant to enhance reading comprehension and stimulate classroom discussion. If a story has questions associated with it, you will find a link to them in the Classroom Resources box in the column on the right of a story (you’ll need to provide an e-mail address to access them). We also have a list of classroom questions available on the site. You can find them by searching our site for a topic and adding “questions” at the end.

Experiments: Articles in this collection take students through real scientific research projects, showing them how to apply the scientific method to develop their own experiments. Check out the full collection of experiments— and give one a try!

Analyze This: This series explores science through data, graphs, visualizations and more. Students are asked to interpret a visualization — and sometimes graph the original data. The series is intended to provide teachers with an easy-to-use tool for classroom learning about data interpretation.

Power words: Each article comes with a set of “Power words” located beneath the text (there is also a link to the list in the Resources at the top of the story). These glossary terms not only help students understand the scientific words they may encounter in the news but also support Common Core English Language Arts standards for reading informational text.

Next Generation Science Standards: Many stories contain codes related to the Next Generation Science Standards that they support. You can always search for stories by the appropriate middle-school or high-school codes.

You can find the full list of available resources on our site. And send questions, comments and suggestions to sns@sciencenews.org — we’d love to hear from you. Did someone forward this newsletter to you? Click here to sign up. Thanks for reading!