AL MAWAKEB AL KHAWANEEJ
Article Week · Biology
Mon 02/11 – Fri 06/11/2026 · Grade 10 · Ms Rafaa
You are not writing an article. You are choosing the best one and showing you understand it.
What to do
1. Find one news article about biology and print it.
2. Label the top of the front page:
Name: ________
Class: ________ (e.g. 10A)
Teacher: Ms Rafaa
Class: ________ (e.g. 10A)
Teacher: Ms Rafaa
3. Read it. Highlight the number with units. On the back, write by hand:
- What happened, in one sentence.
- What that number means.
4. Hand it in between Monday 02/11 and Wednesday 04/11: drop it in the Article Box.
Your article must
- be a real news or science article from a named source (for example BBC, Reuters, The National, Gulf News, Khaleej Times, WHO, New Scientist)
- be published in the last 2 years, with its headline, source and date showing
- be at least one full printed page of text (about 300 words or more)
- be about real living things: the human body, disease, medicine, animals, plants, genes or the environment
- contain at least one number with units (a mass, a length, a time, a temperature, a heart rate in beats per minute…)
Not accepted
Formula sheets, textbook or worksheet pages, notes, Wikipedia, AI-written summaries, social media posts.
In class
Your teacher will use the articles in class during the week.
The prize
The best article choice in each grade wins:
- a certificate from Ms Rasha
- a short talk to the class: what the article says, what you learned, why you chose it
- a place on the Grades 9–12 Articles of the Week wall
Best choice = on topic, from a trusted source, and you clearly understood it.
Questions? Ask Ms Rafaa in class.