Splatoon vs. real-life squid ink

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1/9/23 Thank you for subscribing to The Cheat Sheet, from Science News Explores. If you like this newsletter, share it with a friend or colleague. Did someone forward this to you? Sign up for our weekly updates. Got questions, suggestions or comments? Email us at sns@sciencenews.org and put “The Cheat Sheet” in the subject line. We’d love to hear from you. Inside Science News Explores Happy New Year, all! This week’s newsletter goes out to all the educators planning for the upcoming semester: In addition to the education resources available on Science News Explores, you can find more lesson-planning materials related to our content through Science News Learning.  The Science News Learning digital library includes more than 300 original STEM-related lesson plans connected to Science News and Science News Explores articles, covering topics across the sciences. These lesson plans include comprehension questions, discussion prompts and activities that engage students with core middle-school and high-school concepts. All materials are tagged with Next Generation Science Standards. (Remember, you can also find NGSS codes on Science News Explores stories — and search for appropriate stories by NGSS code, too.) This year, all educators can access Science News Learning lesson plans for free by providing an email address when prompted. For free access next year, all public-school educators can join the program — which includes print copies of Science News mailed to your school, along with other professional development opportunities — by signing up here.   Want to learn more about resources that are available through Science News Learning? Sign up for at least one 30-minute workshop on Thursday, January 12 or Friday, January 13. Science News Learning, like Science News Explores, is part of the Society for Science.  A New Magazine for Kids Learn more and subscribe to Science News Explores, a new magazine designed to satisfy young readers’ curiosity about how the world works.      SUBSCRIBE NOW   Catch up with the latest from Science News Explores Let’s learn about pterosaurs: These ancient flying reptiles were not dinosaurs, although they were close relatives. Readability: 6.4 Resources: power words, word find puzzle, video Will the internet soon reach the one-third of people without it?: Access to the internet is a human right, yet much of the world can’t get online. New tech has to be affordable and usable to end this digital divide. Readability: 7.7 Resources: classroom questions, power words, word find puzzle, infographic Toddler now thrives after prenatal treatment for a genetic disease: Ayla was treated before birth for the rare, life-threatening Pompe disease. Although now a thriving 16-month-old toddler, her treatments will still need to continue. Readability: 7.1  Resources: power words, alternate version at Science News, video Playing video games may improve your memory and attention: The biggest research study of its kind finds that video gamers perform better on some mental tasks than nongamers do. Readability: 6.3  Resources: power words Meet the newest additions to the metric system: The metric system just got its first update in 30 years. New prefixes will help scientists interpret the biggest — and smallest — numbers. Readability: 7.3 Resources: classroom questions, power words, alternate version at Science News Greenland’s inland ice is melting far faster than anyone thought: Inland melting of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream is accelerating — and may contribute far more to sea level rise than earlier estimates had suggested.​​​​​​ Readability: 7.4 Resources: classroom questions, power words, alternate version at Science News Technically Fiction In Nintendo’s Splatoon game series, Inklings and Octolings duke it out with weapons that fire ink. How does this ink compare with that of real octopuses and squid? Find out in the latest installment in our Technically Fiction series.   Find out more about the resources available for using Science News Explores stories for learning. And if you like this newsletter, please share it with a friend or colleague. Did someone share this with you? Subscribe to this newsletter here. If you’ve got questions, suggestions or comments, email us at sns@sciencenews.org. Thank you for reading! Privacy policy  |  Update Profile  | Manage Subscriptions  |  Unsubscribe This email was sent by: Society for Science 1719 N Street NW Washington, DC, 20036, US