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Discovery PLUS

• Adds 60,000 additional digital assets
• ELA and Math Interactives
• Additional Foreign Language content
• Audio books
• Virtual labs

Discovery K-8 Science

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 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

See the annual Commitment Forms for pricing and other information.

• Exclusively for Texas users:  TEKS-aligned Social Studies Resources for grades K-5, Texas History grade 7, and World History
• 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