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Tips for using Science World in the classroom

Laura Barone, science teacher at Portsmouth Middle School in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, suggests:

When a new issue of Science World arrives, I have my students scan the entire issue and write down all of the italicized vocabulary words with Greek or Latin roots. Then, I ask the students to try and decode as many as possible before we read the articles. After reading the articles and discussing the words, students look at their list to see how close their list of guesses were. They are usually amazed at how many they found in the issue and how many they already know. We then use the unknown roots as an assignment to learn new vocabulary. For example, the vocabulary word sanguivore in this issue is composed of the Latin root words sangui- meaning "blood" and -vore meaning "to eat."