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My school is trying to increase content literacy: I am looking for biology articles 2-4 pages at about a 9-12 grade reading level to include in the classroom if anyone could help please and thank you.

I use a lot of articles from the New York Times' The Learning Network.

I have found a good website called Science News for Kids. They have basically current events in science that have been simplified for children. There is a good search engine on the site that lets you find articles that are applicable to your topic. I found a great one the other day on isotopes and dinosaurs. They range from one to three pages of print. I usually make the students write an abstract on the article and make them relate it to the subject we are learning. It has been a very successful website. A few others that I have found a few articles: -National Geo Kids -Science News (for older students) - PBS

The NSTA online advisors created a collection called Teaching with Current Events. If you search the Learning Center and then select the NSTA collections, you should be able to find it right away. It has some life science links. I also really like using Scientific American and BioScience with my students.

Hi Bridget -

One idea is to use the NSTA The Science Teacher journal articles on - 'Career of the Month' to both increase content literacy and explore science careers.

Search for Career of the Month in the Learning Center library.

Dorothy

Hi Bridget - There are many useful science literacy resources in this NSTA Resource Collection "Teaching with Current Events - High School". http://learningcenter.nsta.org/share.aspx?id=CXuep0TRSI Dorothy

Hi! I have pinned the following all with various degrees of success ... http://www.youngzine.org FREE Current Events website. Perfect for MS. http://www.popsci.com Popular Science http://www.microbeworld.org/news Microbe world news. http://wp.stockton.edu/gfb1/ Punnett's Square -- Genetics News and Views. http://www.tweentribune.com News for Kids | Free, short, high-interest articles for pre-teens and young adults. http://www.scienceillustrated.com Science Illustrated. I also am a member of Scoop.It and once you sign up and follow various scientists and science teachers, you will find that about 1/2 of the information "scooped" is articles and the other 1/2 is image and video. Hope this helps!