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

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 Winter 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.

New Classroom Connections is Here!

Classroom Connections

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

Content Spotlight

• Grades K-2
  
  • 🆕 Sentence Fix-It: Winter Olympics - This resource helps students to practice subject-verb agreement and adjectives and adverbs in sentences while learning about winter sports and the Olympics.
  • 🔗 Open Winter Fix-It

• Grades 3-5
  
  • 🆕 Timely & Relevant Background Builders - Learn about the impact of Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Ruby Bridges with ready-to-use Background Builders - students will watch a video, read an informational text, and summarize their learning.

• Grades 6-12
  
  • 🆕 Behind the Network: Explore Cybersecurity Careers - What keeps our digital world secure? Mastercard’s Behind the Network video series gives students a front‑row look at fast‑growing careers in cybersecurity and biometrics.
  • 🔗 Explore Resources

Instructional Strategies Center

COMING SOON! K-5 Careers Hub is GLOWING UP

• Keep an eye out because at the end of January, the K-5 Careers Hub will be adding Future Ready Skills resources! These resources will be organized by skills students will need to be successful in any career. 

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

BACK TO SCHOOL UPDATES!

Check out this year’s back-to-school updates from BrainPop! With new ways to browse by core curriculum, expanded access to our most engaging learning activities, and built-in reading scaffolds that meet students where they are, BrainPOP helps teachers do what they do best—ignite curiosity, build knowledge, and differentiate with ease.

This IU13 IMS BrainPOP Bulletin has highlighted some of our favorite updates below: 

Browse by ELA Core

• Discover a new way to discover BrainPOP 3-8 and BrainPOP Jr. topics—now aligned to the scope and sequence of your ELA core curriculum*. Simply choose the lesson you’re teaching that week, then explore activities that build the background knowledge and vocabulary students need to access (and get excited about!) the texts in your core program.
• Check out which curriculum alignments are now available

Connected Texts with Built-In Scaffolds

• Connected Texts* are high-interest reading passages that extend learning beyond the movie, reinforcing key vocabulary, deepening topic understanding, and promoting stronger comprehension.
• New this year, students can highlight any word or sentence to instantly access a simplified version or a grade-appropriate definition, providing just-in-time reading support. 
• Learn more about this new feature

Pause Points in BrainPOP Jr.

• Pause Points—already a fan favorite in BrainPOP 3-8—are now in BrainPOP Jr.! These short, interactive prompts, embedded into the movie, encourage students to pause, reflect, and respond as they watch. 
• Help young learners stay focused and engaged with prompts that encourage thinking, talking, and connecting ideas as they learn.
• Learn more about this new feature

Reminder Teachers - Don't miss out BrainPop classroom swag!

• Brighten and organize your classroom with these free, time-saving printables for weekly planning, building routines, and just for fun!
• Download stickers, posters, game templates and much more!

Information for this blog post is provided by our partners at BrainPop and was a summary of the full Back to School 2025 with BrainPOP from Summer 2025

Welcome Back, 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.

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

Back-to-School DE Updates

Personalized Educator Homepages

• Planning just got easier!  Your Personalized Homepage surfaces lessons, videos, and activities tailored to your grade and subject. Or use Search to explore thousands of standards-aligned resources across subjects.
• 🔗 Take a 3-Minute tour

Careers Hub

• Ready to spark student curiosity and connect classroom learning to real-world possibilities? The new Careers Hub makes it easier than ever to connect students to real-world opportunities, with resources designed to inspire every learner. 
• 🔗 Take a 3-Minute tour

Virtual Field Trips

• The Fall Virtual Field Trip Lineup is here! Take students to amazing places and introduce them to topics that give them remarkable experiences, without ever leaving the classroom. Explore what's coming up this September and October. 
• 🔗 Open the Fall Lineup the Fall Lineup
  

Content Spotlight

• Grades K-2
  
  • 🆕 Civics Lessons for K–2 - Teacher-led presentations that introduce young learners to key civic concepts through engaging, age-appropriate content. •
  • 🔗 Explore the new lessons and bring civics to life!

• Grades 3-5
  • 🆕 Jumpstart classroom conversations with Math Talks for 3-5! - These teacher-led slideshows offer five days of open-ended prompts paired with real-world images, from art supplies to animals, to spark student thinking, comparing, estimating, and defending ideas.
  • 🔗 Start your next Math Talk today! 
  
  
• Grades 6-12
  • 📚 Weekly Edit for Grades 6–12-Each teacher-led presentation includes a classic fix-it task plus four more engaging activities that build language skills through real-world applications, focused practice, and fun grammar puzzles, all using topics teens care about.
  • 🔗 Add it to your weekly routine and keep students engaged!
    
  
  

Instructional Strategies Center

• Explore DE's ready-to-use activities for K-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12 grade bands. These time-saving activities can be used as-is or modified to meet the needs of their classroom! From Background Builders to Daily Sentence Fix-Its to Choice Boards and more – teachers can find quick grab and go resources to use anytime in the Instructional Activities Channel.

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

Get Sora Ready for the New School Year!

Below are some resources to help promote your district's Sora collection when it's time to welcome students and teachers back to the new school year!

Sora Must-Haves

• Promotional Graphics
• New Sora Users - Getting Started Guides
• Informational Handouts for Teachers and Parent
• Promotional Videos - like the one above
• Sora Content Graphics for Social Media - like the one below

Printables & Posters

It’s important to give your Sora collection a physical presence. Highlighting it during events meant for parents and guardians reminds them that their students have books available to them 24/7.   

• Sora at Home Flyer
• Promoting positive screentime with Sora  
• Sora ID Cards
• Sora reading challenge worksheet
• Coloring pages:
  • Sora tablet or Sora space
• Posters:
  • Open a World of Reading,
  • Adventure Begins (YA readers) or
  • Adventure Begins (Juvenile readers)  

Digital Displays

• Director Dashboard – show all-time circulation stats alongside real-time checkouts and holds
• Sora Showcase – set up interactive touchscreen displays that allow guests to browse your digital collection

For assistance? 

• your dedicated IU13 Sora Account Manager, Ben Kowalczyk at bkowalczyk@overdrive.com, or
• your dedicated Sora Librarian, Katherine Assink at kassink@overdrive.com