Digital Educator Guides
Educator Guides take a deep dive into at least one of the articles per issue of Science News and provide three types of student exercises for the article: reading and data comprehension questions, cross-curricular discussion prompts and hands-on activities. The article covered in a guide is often rewritten by the Science News Explores team, offering you and your students two versions of the same article content, written at different reading levels.
A full Guide is a buffet of exercises that a teacher can choose from. Digital access allows teachers to search the online Library of Guides by keyword with the option of filtering by topic, exercise type, date range, or NGSS-DCI code to find what’s right for his or her classroom.Â
Program enrollment gives all educators at a participating school access to the online Library of Guides, which has over 150 unique STEM exercises. Each exercise has:
- A downloadable worksheet
- Readability scores and links to paired articles
- NGSS-DCI Alignment
- Link back to the full Educator Guide
Types of Exercises
Comprehension
Reading comprehension questions are tied to articles and graphs from Science News.
Discussion
Discussion prompts encourage students to explore research-related concepts and make connections across fields of science.
Activity
Hands-on experiments, debates, data dives, and diagramming and design exercises put students at the center of their learning