This study analyzed the scientific terminology in a high school \'science\' textbook and
newspaper articles. For this purpose, we compared the scientific terminology of the science
textbook of the 2009 Revised National Curriculum with newspaper articles which had been
used for six months in newspapers. The findings of this study are as follows. First, the numbers
of scientific terms in the \'science\' textbook and newspaper articles were 1,496 and 5,088,
respectively. Second, the scientific articles in the newspapers were mainly \'simple reports\' and
\'explanations\', and the contexts of the scientific articles in the newspapers were mainly
\'technology/engineering\' and \'medicine/health\'. As the medicine and health content was
introduced in the 2009 Revised National Curriculum, many students should have opportunities
to learn in this field. Third, the agreement rate between the scientific terms in the science
textbook and the newspaper articles was very low. We could find only 6.4% of the scientific
terms of the newspaper articles in the science textbook. We had especial difficulty in finding
scientific terms related to the \'universe\' in the newspaper. As one of the goals of high school
\'science\' in the national curriculum was to increase students\' problem solving ability in
everyday life, we should offer students an opportunity to learn scientific terms which we can
find in the mass media.