DE Updates for Classroom Teachers and School Leaders! 

Discovery Education is your daily hub of resources for your classroom with digital media and ready-to-use learning activities. Take some time to check out the new content and educator supports from Discovery Education Experience. This content is summarized from the full DE May School Leader Newsletter.

Be sure to log into your district's single sign-on link for Discovery Education before clicking on the links in this post.

🚲 Celebrate National Bicycle & Motorcycle Awareness Month 

• Ride Smart with Honda Safety Driven - ready-to-use lessons and videos that help students in grades 3–12 build safer riding and driving habits.
  • 🚗 Explore The Tools
    
    

New Content Spotlight

• Grades K-2
  
  • 🎬 Social Studies, Animated - A curated collection of animated videos that make complex social studies topics accessible and engaging for students across grade levels.
    • 🔗 Browse This Collection
  • 📅 May's Ready-to-Use Activities Are Here - Your monthly classroom calendar is live! Browse this month's curated collection of daily instructional activities and lessons — all teacher-led, standards-aligned, and ready to use from day one.
    • 🔗 View This Month's Activities

• Grades 3-5
  
  • 🦸 Superman Day Activities - Two ready-to-use Superman-themed activities that invite students to explore hope, courage, and heroism in their own lives.
    • 🔗 Hope as a Superpower – Classroom Activity
      
    • 🔗 Design a Hope Shield – Afterschool Activity
  • 🌍 Geography Kids Video Collections
    
    • 🔗 Bodies of Water -  Key features of bodies of water and how they connect to surrounding land.
      
    • 🔗 Continents - Formation, geography, and culture of Earth's 7 continents.

• Grades 6-12
  
  • 🌱 Beyond Earth Day: Conservation Station - Year-round, classroom-ready resources that help students explore energy and water conservation. Through interactive activities and Virtual Field Trips, students connect sustainability to real-world technologies and discover how innovation is building a more energy-efficient future.
    • 🔗 Explore the Guide
  • 🔬 Redesigned Science Articles - 111 refreshed, NGSS-aligned articles built to strengthen literacy and critical thinking in science classrooms. Each features visual supports, vocabulary scaffolds, guided notetakers, and built-in comprehension checks to make complex concepts accessible for every learner.
    • 🔗 Explore the Articles

Instructional Strategies Center - New for Back-to-School 2026 

• Everyday Teaching Essentials - Watch the Introduction Video

Information compiled in this update was provided by our partners at Discovery Education

Sora Sweet Reads 2026

Summer reading season is quickly approaching, and the decisions made now can have a lasting impact on student engagement, confidence, and learning.

We know that consistent access to reading during the summer months is one of the most effective ways to support literacy growth , prevent learning loss, and keep students connected to stories they care about. When students can easily find books they’re excited to read—without waitlists or access barriers—they’re far more likely to read often and read joyfully.  

This summer, Sora Sweet Reads is one way schools can support reading success by offering always available ebooks and select audiobooks students can access May 18 through August 24 - no holds, no barriers. With unlimited, simultaneous access, Sweet Reads helps ensure that every student can open a book whenever curiosity strikes.  

New for this Year: Curated Content Groupings

• This year’s Sweet Reads collection is organized into seven themed content groupings—designed to reflect a wide range of interests, learning goals, and reading preferences across grades K–12. Each grouping can also be expanded with additional titles available for purchase, allowing you to further tailor your collection to your students’ needs.  

• The seven themed content groupings for this year are:
  • America 250
  • Unearth a Story
  • Comics & Graphic Novels
  • Curiosity Lab
  • Everyday Adventures
  • High Energy Summer
  • Sleuths, Scares & Puzzles

For School Librarians:

• As you plan for summer reading, your account manager is available to help with questions about Sora Sweet Reads, expanding your digital collection, or aligning resources to your summer reading goals. If you’d prefer not to participate in the Sweet Reads program, please contact your account manager by May 12th so Sora can update your settings accordingly.

DE Updates for Classroom Teachers and School Leaders! 

Discovery Education is your daily hub of resources for your classroom with digital media and ready-to-use learning activities. Take some time to check out the new content and educator supports from Discovery Education Experience. This content is summarized from the full DE April School Leader Newsletter.

Be sure to log into your district's single sign-on link for Discovery Education before clicking on the links in this post.

Make Cents of Learning This April 

• Financial Literacy Month is rolling in with fresh, real-world content to help students budget, save, spend, and dream big. From career-connected lessons to ready-to-use classroom resources, it’s never been easier to bring money-smart thinking into everyday instruction.
• 💰 Explore these Content Connection Resources!

New Content Spotlight

• Grades K-2
  
  • 📚 Vooks Just Got Even Better - Fresh titles have landed in the beloved Vooks series! These animated storybooks combine read-aloud narration with engaging visuals, plus ready-to-use PDFs and lesson plans to extend learning beyond the screen.
  • 🔗 Explore New Titles

• Grades 3-5
  
  • 📖 Build Stronger Readers - Support comprehension with a structured approach to informational text. Students read, annotate, and summarize chunked content—building essential skills they can apply across subjects.
  • 🔗 Explore Resources
    

• Grades 6-12
  
  • 🧬 DNA Day Resources - Bring genetics to life with ready-to-use lessons and hands-on investigations for DNA Day.
  • 🔗 Explore Resources

Instructional Strategies Center

Information compiled in this update was provided by our partners at Discovery Education

Sora Spring 2026 updates

• Join Text and Tech: Reading Together from Sora and NCTE
• Live and on-demand PD from Sora and TeachingBooks
• Webinar: Join Sora & Oxford Languages for the future of digital reading & inclusive learning
• Librarians: Log into your Advantage Account to:
  • Save big on Scholastic ebooks and audiobooks, as well as more mystery & more mayhem (books, that is!) for less for grades K-5, 6-8, 9-12
  • View recommended reads for Baseball, April is National Poetry Month, Celebrate Spring!, Passover & Easter

Podcast: How educators use Sora to support diverse reading

What does Sora look like in real classrooms? In this inaugural episode of the Classroom Book Talk podcast, Andrea from @theliteracyjunky shares how she uses Sora to support choice, access, and diverse reading

Classroom Book Talk Podcast

DE Updates for Classroom Teachers and School Leaders! 

Discovery Education is your daily hub of resources for your classroom with digital media and ready-to-use learning activities. Take some time to check out the new content and educator supports from Discovery Education Experience. This content is summarized from the full DE Feb-March School Leader Newsletter.

Be sure to log into your district's single sign-on link for Discovery Education before clicking on the links in this post.

Classroom Connections

Classroom Connections

• The latest Classroom Connections to give teachers quick access to timely resources, trending picks, and inspiration they can use tomorrow.
• 🔗 Share Feb-March Classroom Connections

New Content Spotlight

• Grades K-2
  
  • 🆕 Big Ideas for Little Learners - Help K–2 students explore essential social studies concepts through engaging animated videos that simplify complex ideas.
  • 🔗 Explore Lessons

• Grades 3-5
  
  • 🆕 Smart Tech Starts Here! - Help grades 3–5 students navigate AI and online safety through engaging stories that make big digital concepts easy to understand.
  • 🔗 Explore AI Episode 1: You Are What You Eat | Animated Topic Series
    

• Grades 6-12
  
  • 🆕 The Levi’s Wear Longer Project - Rethink Fashion. Reduce Waste - High school lessons exploring clothing care and circular sustainability.
  • 🔗 Explore Resources

Instructional Strategies Center

Educators - Ready for an Afternoon of Hands-On Learning?

• Join DE on March 10 for Educator Essentials: Powering Everyday Practice with Experience — a virtual learning event designed to help students engage deeply, think critically, and demonstrate understanding.
• Save your Spot!

Information compiled in this update was provided by our partners at Discovery Education