What is Love? | Health Physical Reading Comprehension 2 Passage & Questions

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Understanding how humans fall in love is a highly engaging way to explore biology, chemistry, neuroscience and human behaviour in middle and high school science, connecting familiar experiences such as attraction, attachment and bonding to the chemistry and biology happening inside the brain and body.

This resource explores “How do humans fall in love?” through two science reading passages with questions, one higher level and slightly more complex and one lower level and more accessible, making differentiation straightforward while keeping students focused on the same core scientific ideas. Students investigate the roles of neurotransmitters and hormones such as dopamine, oxytocin, vasopressin, serotonin and adrenaline, and explore how the brain’s reward systems, nervous system and body chemistry can influence attraction, motivation, bonding and emotional responses.

The paired passages, comprehension questions, vocabulary support and critical thinking tasks build scientific literacy while helping students distinguish between the biological processes associated with love and the wider psychological and social factors that shape human relationships. This makes the resource a memorable and accessible addition to middle and high school biology, human biology, health science and neuroscience lessons.

This 2 article set of What is Love? reading passages with questions provides the perfect grab and go, print and provide resource that can help your students learn all about What is Love? For digital, you can provide a Google doc copy for ease of submission or a Microsoft word version as well. In this What is Love? article with questions to check comprehension and inspire scientific thinking.

The accessible version is geared towards approximately 5th / 6th / 7th grade science students, while the more advanced version is geared towards approximately 8th / 9th / 10th grade science students. This range for both could be extended with prep work or additional materials.

THIS WHAT IS LOVE? ARTICLE CAN BE USED SO MANY WAYS:

Useful for substitute (sub) teaching
To extend students
To increase scientific literacy in your class
A weekly reading task
Great as a lesson filler when class goes too fast
To inspire students on a particular topic
Give a selection of these articles for students to choose from

WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS WHAT IS LOVE? READING PASSAGE WITH QUESTIONS:

2 - 3 page Word doc image - textboxes teacher version with answers
2 - 2 page Word doc image - textboxes student version with room to fill in answers (text boxes)
2 - 3 page PDF teacher version with answers
2 - 2 page PDF student version without answers (but space left to do so)
2 - 3 page Google doc image - textboxes teacher version with answers
2 - 2 page Google doc image - textboxes student version with room to fill answers (text boxes)

Please note: That the Doc versions are images with editable text boxes overlayed on top and this is the most effective way to keep the article sleek and well-designed and also that students cannot change things significantly.