Communities, Biomes, and Ecosystems (succession/climate/aquatic ecosystems)

In this activity, students create a food web both for the Arctic and their local ecosystem, and think about how ecosystem disruptions affect the food web.

Biodiversity & Conservation (Human impact)

Chemistry in Biology (water, macromolecules, enzymes)

Microscopes, Cellular Structure and Function (transport/organelles)

Self-destructuing mitochondria may leave some brain cells vulnerable to ALS

How light-farming chloroplasts morph into defensive warriors

Cellular energy (ATP/photosynthesis/cellular respiration)

This educator guide describes how cancer cells coat themselves with extra sugars to avoid detection, and an innovative therapy that might destroy that protective sugar coating.

Hybrid rice engineered with CRISPR can clone its seeds

Molecular Genetics (replication, transcription, translation, mutation

This discussion section asks students questions about DNA, RNA, gene activity and mutations.

Mechanisms of evolution (classification/phylogeny)

These discussion prompts connect concepts including energy, competition, adaptation, speciation, natural selection and chemical and physical changes to a real-world example.

A widely studied lab plant has revealed a previously unknown organ

These ferns may be the first plants known to share work like ants

This parasitic plant consists of just flashy flowers and creepy suckers

More plants survived the world's greatest mass extinction than thought

This discussion uses the application of organ transplants to dive into key science terms relating to immunology and physiology.

Circulatory System (Factors that affect blood flow)

Blood vessels built from a patient's cells could help people on dialysis

Reproductive System (Male/female, fertil/fetal development)

**Note: all SNHS lesson plans are paired to Science News and/or Science News for Students articles.