Editor’s Note: Literacy Skills

Journal Article | October 2008

Our science and literacy issue is always one of the most popular issues of the year, and we’re betting this jam-packed issue will be no exception. Why? There are many probable reasons. Many elementary teachers are more…

Science and Literacy: Tools for Life

Journal Article | January 2010

This article describes three interconnected strategies to help form the structure of support that you and your students can use to reach both goals simultaneously: performance expectations for students, explicit…

Information Literacy in Introductory Biology

Journal Article | April 2006

Incorporating information literacy exercises into the science curriculum will help students to navigate through the myriad of information available in different formats, and to become better scientific thinkers and…

Putting Science Literacy on Display

Journal Article | October 2012

A museum setting incorporates language arts into science lessons. This article describes how a class turned its library into a museum by displaying student projects that were generated from an air and weather unit.

Environmental Literacy for All Students

Journal Article | April 2003

Evaluation of environmental science courses developed for a new core curriculum.

Editor’s Roundtable: Health Literacy

Journal Article | October 2007

In his 2003 testimony, the Surgeon General called for combating the obesity epidemic in America by increasing health literacy among our citizens, and especially among the nation’s children. Schools must teach students…