This simple explanation of science vocabulary (and of the scientific method) will help your students recognize important academic vocabulary and understand science and psychology news and research. The free packet includes: • Explanations and examples of vocabulary: bias, data, evaluate, factor, valid, and variable (with its variations) • A one-page explanation of the scientific method demonstrating those words and adding more vocabulary in context: conclusion, evidence, hypothesis, implications, interpret, relevant, and reproducible • A five-question multiple choice quiz based on that information • Answer key This packet is designed as a reading activity and discussion starter. Ask students for their experiences doing experiments and solving problems. Did they follow a similar procedure? What did they do differently? What were their results? What steps do they consider the most important? The quiz makes a good short review (or warm-up) for later in the week.

In this short lesson students watch a short TED Ed video about the value of sleep, read a PBS article about sleep and the teenage brain, and answer comprehension questions about what they have learned. (The questions can also be used as an anticipation guide to arouse student interest and find out how accurate their current ideas are.) They also complete a crossword puzzle based on vocabulary from the video and article. The materials were selected to be easy enough that most English language learners can follow what they say.

This free reading (or listening) comprehension worksheet can help students get the most from a very interesting short TED talk on a new approach to cancer research-- by a researcher barely out of her teens.