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Read Works: Life Finds a Way
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about life in the deepest parts of the ocean. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Marine Biology
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Frank who grew up loving the ocean and has dreams of becoming a marine biologist. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Life Cycle of a Frog
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the steps in a frog's life cycle. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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University of California Museum of Paleontology: Understanding Science: Dna
Find out how the human side of science played a role in the significant discovery of the molecule of life, DNA.
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Read Works: Will Human Life on Earth Come to an End?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about science fiction authors and their predictions about space travel. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Story Behind the Science
Story Behind the Science: Search for Life's Origins [Pdf]
Article describing research done by scientists in their quest to understand the origins of life. Questions are posed throughout about the nature of scientific research.
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota: Ships: Science & Religion of Michael Faraday
Here's a whole different look at Faraday. His religion, Sandemanian, greatly influenced both his life and his science. This article looks deeply at that aspect of his life.
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Read Works: Under the Sea
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about scientists who believe they have discovered several new species of marine life off the coast of Papua, New Guinea. A question sheet is available to help students build skills...
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Read Works: First Life
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage explains the pressure-bomb experiments of Robert Hazen and the origins of life. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills...
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Khan Academy: Life Tables, Survivorship, & Age Sex Structure
This article describes tools ecologists use to describe the present state of a population and predict its future growth.
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Read Works: Life in the Ocean
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the different depth levels of the ocean and the types of animals that live in each. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: What's in the Oceans? Amazing Ocean Animals
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about some of the animals found in the ocean including: sea turtles, sea urchins, starfish, sea horses, and clownfish. A question sheet is available to help students build skills...
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Read Works: Arctic Life
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about animals that live in the Arctic. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: A Day in the Life of a Veterinary Technician
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a typical day at work for a veterinary technician. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: The Science of Taste
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the sense of taste. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Superstars of Science
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about scientists Jane Goodall, Stephen Hawking, Dean Kamen, Rachel Carson, and Charles Henry. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in classifying and categorizing.
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Science Oxford Online
Make connections between science, enterprise, and society here in this collection of articles and current science topics in the news. Find out how science makes connections with the daily life of human beings.
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Earth: Biology
A large collection of articles covering many topics and specialized fields in the discipline of biology.
BBC
Bbc Newsround: Eating Horsemeat "May Improve Life for Horses"
Article reports on the debate in the UK around the consumption of horsemeat.
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Bbc: Science & Nature: Prehistoric Life: Latest News
Offers a collection of links to news items related to prehistoric studies. A good resource for keeping up-to-date on scientists' discoveries about our Earth's past.
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Read Works: Ocean Animal Discovery
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the discovery of ocean animals. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: A Deep Sea Wonderland
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about scientists who are studying an inactive, underwater volcano in order to find ways to protect the sea creatures living there. A question sheet is available to help students...
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Read Works: Dive Into a Coral Reef
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about coral reefs and some of the sea creatures that call them home. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Reef Building
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about wildlife workers who are building artificial reefs to provide food and shelter for sea life. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...