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Discovery Education Experience (formerly known as Discovery Education Streaming) offers dynamic curated K-12 curriculum resources combined with on-demand instructional strategies, personalized for your needs as an educator. These real-world content channels bring excitement and relevance to the topics you teach, ensuring all students have opportunities to unlock their true potential.
- Real-world content and experiences – Leverage standards-aligned multimodal teaching resources and exciting content that mirrors the unique interests of students
- Instructional strategies on-demand – Access embedded research-based strategies, step-by-step guides, interactive courses, and professional networking.
- Personalized channels – Select preferences to build custom content channels that support specific subjects and students.
- Timesaving design and assign – Save time creating lessons with grab-and-go activities you can modify or assign as-is.
Discovery Education also offers optional, additional products at significant discounts from list pricing. These include Discovery Science (K-8) and Discovery Education Experience - Plus.
For more information, please visit Discovery Education Experience at http://www.discoveryeducation.com.
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Key Features of the Basic Service
- Interactive Training modules and Community-developed Spotlight on Strategies provide educators with integration strategies to maximize the use of Discovery Education Streaming and are supported with Digital Challenge Boards with step-by-step integration ideas and associated clips
- All learning objects are designed for easy integration into a curriculum
- K-12 learning objects are correlated to State Standards
- Enhanced search tools, including curriculum standards search and a monthly calendar, help teachers identify relevant lesson content
- Thousands of encyclopedia articles, audio files, high-quality digital images, and videos address multiple learning modalities
- Discovery Atlas Interactive Map provides engaging content specific to countries from around the globe
- Content Collections featuring resources hand-selected by Discovery Education’s curriculum experts aid in planning lessons on commonly taught topics
- Assignment Builder enables teachers to build and administer assignments for individual students or groups
- Writing prompts help students to develop stronger writing skills
- Quiz Builder allows teachers to gauge student progress and mastery of concepts and utilize the results to identify areas of strength and address areas requiring improvement
- Teacher and Student Board Builders allow digital assets to be integrated and uploaded for shareable online “Board” projects
- Classroom Manager allows for students to be added manually or imported and segmented into classes for sharing resources with students via the Student Center
- Global Wrap current events content from MacNeil Lehrer Productions
- Closed captioning, audio description, and multiple language versions make content more accessible to a variety of learners
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Add-Ons to the Basic Service
Mystery Science
- Aligned to current TEKS
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Mini-Lessons, Full Lessons, and Read-Alongs
- Hands-on Activities & Digital Media
- Discovery K-8 Science
Compelling, interactive digital science service drives deep interest in core science concepts
Discovery Education Science™ is a supplemental digital resource that enriches science instruction by providing educators and students with inquiry-based, interactive digital content.
Discovery Education Science™ provides educators and students with many benefits, including
- Provides students with leveled informational science text and reading passages specific to standard content areas
- Takes students beyond theory to the more engaging world of practical demonstrations and explorations
- Addresses multiple learning styles through resources such as leveled reading passages, e-books, Fun-Damentals, and engaging video segments
- Helps students learn to interpret data, draw conclusions supported by this data, and practice important math skills with Virtual Labs and Explorations
- Tracks students’ understanding with online selected response assessments or Brief Constructed Responses (BCR), which includes teacher scoring tools
- Encourages additional learning by enabling students to access middle school level resources on particular topics
Some of the key features of Discovery Education Science™ include
- e-Book Reading Passages: Leveled informational science text and reading passages specific to each content area with audio support
- Fun-Damentals: Gain the basic background knowledge necessary to begin the study of a science topic through an inquiry-based introduction with audio support
- Virtual Labs: Inquiry-based exploration of investigative design and science process skills at two levels of difficulty with audio support
- Interactive Glossary: Dynamic explanations of hundreds of science terms that engage student minds through animations, video, images, and more
- Interactive Videos: Students can click on hotspots during a selected video clip to learn additional information and to reinforce a learning point in a highly engaging format
- Integrated Science Stimulations: From Discovery Education's award-winning CD-ROM collection, students can explore situations from a variety of science perspectives
- Explorations: Explore a given concept to gain a greater understanding of how models work and how changing different inputs affects an outcome
- Science Sleuths: Students solve open-ended science mysteries using clues and resources such as interviews, photos, articles, graphics, and more