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Here are some "Timely & Relevant" resources from Discovery Education for the month of March 2024. Use Discovery Education as your daily hub of resources for your classroom with digital media and ready-to-use learning activities. Be sure to log into your instance of Discovery Education before clicking on the links in this post.

Timely and Relevant Resources

• Check out the March 2024 DE Newsletter for a list of resources that supports student learning throughout the month.  Click on the link above or the image to open and download this month's newsletter.

Explore the Ready-to-Use-Activities

• Explore DE's 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 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.

• There you’ll find this month's Activity Calendars for Grades K-2 and Grades 3-5. Use them as they are or make your own copy to edit and share.

Highlighted Monthly & Timely Celebrations

• World Wildlife Day (3/3) – Travel the world to explore the largest predators and most exotic wildlife on land and in the sea.
• Pi Day (3/14) – Prepare for a mathematics party with pies and digital resources!
• St Patrick’s Day (3/17) - Discover images, videos, and articles that explain the history of this holiday and showcase the various ways countries around the world celebrate the day.
• First Day of Spring (3/19) – Discover a collection of videos, images, songs, and writing prompts that explore the science behind the seasons and their environmental effects.

Check out DE's New Content

• Life Skills Channel - Empower students with curated, high-quality resources to help them develop critical life skills in the classroom and beyond. In this channel, educators and students can explore topics like resiliency, character, personal responsibility, mentorship and citizenship, problem solving, and more.
• STEM Career Coalition - Problem-Solving Tools for Tomorrow’s Changemakers - The all-new STEM Careers Coalition's mission is to empower educators to teach STEM effectively in the classroom, focusing on equity and access to quality education, and building the next generation of solution-seekers at no cost to schools.
• Career Tours by Amazon - Career Tours are free, interactive virtual field trips that teachers can share with their students to inspire them to pursue careers of the future by showcasing the real-life people and cutting-edge technology behind Amazon’s innovations.

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