Check out the Let’s Learn About series

These mini lessons can introduce you to a new topic

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Interested in learning more about a certain topic? Start with Let's Learn About.

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Entries in the Let’s Learn About series present a mini lesson on a topic. Each entry provides a handful of Science News Explores stories on that topic, along with relevant Scientists Say and explainers, a new word find puzzle and a link to fun content from somewhere on the internet, like an animal cam or game. These collections are meant to help kids learn more about a topic in STEM — with a bit of fun.

Check out entries in the following categories:

Have a suggestion for this series? Email us at sns@sciencenews.org.

Life

Alligators

Amphibians

Animals’ bizarre sleep schedules

Beetles’ survival superpowers

Bioluminescence

Birdwatching for beginners

Cellulose

Chimpanzees and bonobos

Coral reefs

Creepy crawlies in your home

Crocodiles

Dinosaur extinction

Dinosaurs’ fearsome neighbors

DNA

Dogs

Dolphins

Domestic cats

Electric eels

Elephants

Frogs

Godzilla and King Kong

Halloween creatures

Meat-eating plants

Microbes

Microbial communities

Modern Frankensteins

Parasites that create zombies

Photosynthesis

Pterosaurs

Sharks

Snot

Trees

Turkeys are dinosaurs

Useful bacteria

Vampire bats

Whales

Space

Black holes

Dark matter

Exoplanets

Gravitational waves

Hunting for alien life

Jupiter

Jupiter’s moons

Mars

Meteorites

Meteor showers

Milky Way

Moon

Pluto

Space robots

Sun

Surviving a trip to Mars

Humans

Allergies

Bias

Citizen Science

Creativity

Early humans

Eating bugs

Exercise

Fingerprints

Hair

Language

Mummies

Neandertals

Reading

Sleep

Stonehenge

Taste

Touch

Why schools should start later

Physics and chemistry

Acids

Bases

Bubbles

Colors

Diamond

‘Ghost particles’ (neutrinos)

Glass

Graphene

Ice

Light

Microplastics

Music

Particles for peering inside objects

Periodic table

Piezoelectric materials

Quantum realm

Earth

Antarctica

Arctic

Auroras

Coral reefs

Earthquakes

Geysers and hydrothermal vents

Groundwater

Heat waves

Hurricanes

Lightning

Plastic pollution

Rain

Snow

Sun

Tornadoes

Volcanoes

Wildfire ecology

Winter Olympics

Why summer 2023 was so hot

Technology

Artificial intelligence

Ancient technology

Batteries

Drones for science

Forensic science

Future of food

Mind reading

Satellites

Smart clothes

Solar power

Space robots

Virtual reality

Video game benefits

Math

Dealing with math anxiety

Mathematical mysteries

Pi