Comments on: How Does Bird Diversity Affect the Incidence of West Nile Virus in Humans? http://nsdl.library.cornell.edu/websites/expertvoices/connectingnews/archives/3179 The NSDL Middle School Portal 2 project is hosting this blog to encourage teachers to use current science news as teaching opportunities. The related middle level, grades 5-8 content standards of the National Science Education Standards are included as well as ideas for turning the news event into an inquiry-based lesson. Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:00:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3