Science News Learning Program Resources
Explore this page to discover the educator resources the Science News Learning program has to offer. Watch the video to take a tour of the lesson plan library and find a resource that you could use in your classroom tomorrow!
Lesson Plans
Search our digital library to find ready-to-use lesson plans to help you integrate Science News and/or Science News Explores articles into your classroom: www.sciencenews.org/learning/. Each lesson plan is paired to a Science News article (HS reading level), and many are also paired to a Science News Explores article (MS reading level)
Comprehension Q&A
Guide students through the main scientific themes in an article.
Discussion Prompts
Encourage students to explore crosscutting concepts and make connections across fields of science.
Activities
Have students expand their understanding of a concept by navigating experiments and data and design exercises.
Lesson Plans Grouped By Article
Educator Guides are groups of lesson plans all focused on the same article. They always include a set of comprehension questions and discussion prompts, and some also include an activity.
View Educator Guides
Journalism
Articles are fun to read, easy to understand and great literacy-based learning tools. Post an article’s URL to your Learning Management Platform, or send students directly to either website below. If prompted, they should enter their teacher’s email address.
Science News
Reading levels grade 9 and up
Science News Explores
Reading levels grade 5 and up
Teaching Themes
Educators across the country use our resources to teach skills that go beyond core concepts and subject areas. You can find exercises organized by the themes highlighted below.
Develop students’ data analysis skills with these lesson plans focused on graphs and other data visualizations.
Meet literacy goals in your classroom with these lesson plans that lead students through summarizing, CERs, note-taking and more!
Let students learn about experimental and engineering design with these lesson plans focusing on current research.
Explore bias in scientific research, highlight diverse scientists and more with these lesson plans.
Teach the science behind the COVID-19 pandemic with these lesson plans focused on disease spread, vaccines and other aspects of the pandemic’s progression.
Professional Development Opportunities
Don’t miss out on these opportunities for program educators!
Programmatic e-newsletter
Get inspired with weekly program emails that include the most recently produced lesson plans, additional teaching ideas related to articles, and grant, conference and competition-related opportunities from Society for Science.
Webinars
Collaborate and learn from other teachers, build your own lesson plan using our resources, or share your own examples of how you use the resources in your classroom!
Programmatic Forms
Digital Resources Sign-Up
Share the digital resources with colleagues at your school.
Update Your Contact Information
Changing schools or personal information changed? Update your account so we can keep in touch with you.
Thank Your Program Sponsor
Tell your sponsor how the resources are impacting you and your students.
Special Opportunities
In-Flight Space Event and Lesson for Your Classroom
On October 2, 2020, Society for Science’s educators and students participated in an Earth-to-space video call with Expedition 63 Commander Chris Cassidy of NASA, aboard the International Space Station. Watch the video with your students and create a lesson using our resources!
Connect Your Students with Society Alumni
Provide access to STEM role models for your students and make connections to the professional scientific community by connecting your classroom with a Society alum! Society alumni now pursuing degrees or careers in STEM have expressed a desire to give back to their communities and inspire more students in STEM. Set up a virtual classroom visit with one of them by filling out this interest form.