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Here are some "Timely & Relevant" resources from Discovery Education for the month of December 2022. Be sure to log into your instance of Discovery Education before clicking on the links below.

Timely Content for December

• Already thinking ahead to December? Give teachers the DE December Newsletter for resources that support timely events like Winter Holiday Celebrations, World Soil Day, International Mountain Day, Wright Brothers Day, and much more! Also, if you're looking for resources for your students to do at home over the holiday breaks. Share these activities with your families to keep learning alive over break.
• Winter Holiday Celebrations include a Celebrations of Light Around the World Studio Board (Grades 3-8), Sentence Fix-It: December Holidays (Grades K-2) – capitalization rules for the beginning of sentences & proper nouns, and Grades K-12 DE Channels of resources for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa. 

Ready-to-Use-Activities

• Have your teachers explored our ready-to-use activities? These time-saving activities can be used as-is or modified to meet the needs of their classroom! From Background Builders to Sentence Fix-Its to Choice Boards and more – teachers can find quick grab and go resources to use anytime in the Instructional Activities Channel.

• There you’ll find the recent Activity Calendars, such as these for December, for Grades K-2 and Grades 3-5. Use them as they are or make your own copy to edit and share.

Play to Learn with LEGO Virtual Field Trip

• Discover how creativity, learning, and imagination all intersect as students learn to solve challenges using the power of play. From the Home of the Brick in Billund, Denmark students will meet real-life LEGO® play experts, and discover how important play can be. Then, we will travel to meet U.S. Sea Turtle Conservationists, as they introduce us to some big challenges facing our planet and learn alongside student peers as they play, collaborate, and create! Learn more and register today!  Learn more and register today!

Feature of the Month: Collaborative Studio Boards

• Did you know you can create a Studio board template and then assign it to groups of students? They can then all work on the board together for a collaborative project!  Check out DE's Quick Start Guide to Share and Collaborate with Studio!

Call for Questions: Discovery Education Virtual Field Trip to the International Space Station

• Through our partnership with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Discovery Education has been given the exciting opportunity to host a Virtual Field Trip to the International Space Station! We are inviting students around the world to submit questions for a chance to have them answered by astronauts aboard the space station. For more information and to submit questions, visit our website.
• Please note that, due to the complicated and ever-shifting responsibilities of the space station crew, there is always a possibility that the Virtual Field Trip will be delayed or cancelled as a result of circumstances outside of our control. If this event does move forward, it will occur during the first half of the 2023 school year, with more information to follow once a specific date is selected.

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