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Here are some "Timely & Relevant" resources from Discovery Education for the month of February 2023. Be sure to log into your instance of Discovery Education before clicking on the links below.

Timely Content for February

• Save time with the DE February Newsletter for a curated list of resources that support timely events like Black History Month, Groundhog Day, National Inventor’s Day, President’s Day, the Super Bowl, and much more!  Click on the image to access this month's newsletter. 
• Groundhog Day (2/2): Follow along as Lenzi traces the history of Groundhog Day, revealing its roots in the German holiday Candlemas.
• Rosa Parks Day (2/4): Explore the remarkable impact Rosa Parks made on the civil rights movement.
• National Inventor’s Day (2/11): Investigate inventors and their innovations with this collection of resources.
• Superbowl (2/12): The American Heart Association and the National Football League, working together with Discovery Education, have joined forces to amplify NFL PLAY 60’s reach and impact by inspiring physically active lifestyles in schools and homes nationwide.

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 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 February, for Grades K-2 and Grades 3-5. Use them as they are or make your own copy to edit and share.
  

#CelebrateWithDE: World Read Aloud Day 

• February 1, 2023 | All Day | Grades K-2
• Share your love of reading with students on World Read Aloud Day! Explore Discovery Education's ready-to-use activities and video quizzes that highlight the Vooks storybooks brought to life through animation. Each resource contains activities for your K-2 students to do throughout and after each story! Learn more!  

Manufacturing the Future of Aviation Virtual Field Trip 

• February 8, 2023 | 1pm EST | Grades 6-12
• Join Boeing and Discovery Education for a special tour of three Boeing manufacturing facilities in Renton, WA, Portland, OR, and Salt Lake City, Utah to see what game-changing innovations in aviation look like up close! At each location, students will learn how mechatronics, robotics, and ergonomics are shaping the future of aviation manufacturing and be introduced to skilled STEM professionals who use cutting-edge tech to solve real-world challenges. Learn more and register today! 

Behind the Scenes of Country Music's Biggest Night Virtual Field Trip

• February 16, 2023 | 1pm EST | Grades 6-12 
• Join us for a one-of-a-kind virtual field trip into the exciting inner-workings of Country Music’s biggest night of the year, as students are introduced to a variety of key STEAM professionals working behind-the-scenes at the Country Music Association (CMA) Awards in Nashville, TN. Students will dive into the action with diverse Country Music professionals all working in harmony to create Country Music’s biggest night. Learn more and register today!

Free Professional Learning Series: DEN Workshop 

• Did you know we offer a free professional learning series for educators? Our spring cohort of DEN Workshop kicks off in February! Educators will be able to join this virtual cohort and learn from DE staff as well as connect with other educators on best practices in education! We'll make sure they leave with key points on using DE in the classroom. After each session, they'll have a task to complete in their classroom and then will have the chance to return the next session to share and reflect with other educators! Learn more and register today.  

Day of Discovery

• DE is launching a local Days of Discovery this Spring! Perhaps you are interested in participating person, and perhaps also interested in presenting to the group in one of our breakout sessions. The regional day will be on Saturday, March 11 in Downingtown, PA Register here.
• If you are up for presenting, please submit your proposal here.

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Here are some "Timely & Relevant" resources from Discovery Education for the month of January 2023. Be sure to log into your instance of Discovery Education before clicking on the links below.

Timely Content for January

• Give teachers the DE January 2023 Newsletter for resources that support timely events like MLK Day, Data Privacy Day, and much more! 
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (1/16): Dr. King advocated for peaceful resistance to unfair laws and called for jobs and freedom for all. To this day, he inspires people around the world to work for freedom and equality. Visit the Martin Luther King, Jr. Channel for K-12 content – choice boards, background builders, video segments, historical images, and more.
• Data Privacy Day (1/28): Highlighting this channel because there are SO many cool activities to explore real-world data use + several career profiles that introduce students to professionals who use data in their roles with sports teams, television networks, and more.

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 January, for Grades K-2 and Grades 3-5. Use them as they are or make your own copy to edit and share.

Strategy of the Month: 3-2-1 Pyramid

• Students use a graphic organizer to capture their thinking while viewing a DE resource. This builds foundational knowledge that helps students produce a summary. This strategy provides a scaffolded framework that guides student practice as they master the process of summarizing information. View all strategies in the SOS Channel.

Day of Discovery

• DE is launching a local Days of Discovery this Spring! Perhaps you are interested in participating person, and perhaps also interested in presenting to the group in one of our breakout sessions. The regional day will be on Saturday, March 11 in Downingtown, PA Register here.
• If you are up for presenting, please submit your proposal here.

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.

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

This Month at DE

• Explore and share the Discovery Education October 2022 Newsletter to learn about all the timely, relevant and featured resources happening this month!

Monthly Activity Calendars Continue to be Published! 

• Explore ready-to-use activities for October that provide students with opportunities to explore their curiosity around a variety of topics. Looking for more?
• Explore the Instructional Activities Channel. There you’ll find the recent Activity Calendars for Grades K-2 and Grades 3-5. Use them as they are or make your own copy to edit and share.

World Space Week is October 4th-10th!

• DE has created four out of this world PowerPoint decks for each day of World Space Week from October 4th-10th. There’s a lot of really cool things happening in space right now, and many of these resources have been added just THIS week so they’re hyper relevant!

• Broken out by grade bands K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12, these decks contain an entire week’s worth of resources. Each deck has slides for next Tuesday-Monday with a different video activity each day + extensions linked to many videos. The best thing about them – they are all ready to go with minimal planning needed! Quick activities that you could fit into a Morning Meeting, end of day activity, brain break, etc. - whenever works throughout the day. Each slide also contains a link to DE's Explore Space channel for even more resources.
  • Pk-2 Space Week Deck
  • 3-5 Space Week Deck
  • 6-8 Space Week Deck
  • 9-12 Space Week Deck

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

This Month at DE

• Explore and share the Discovery Education September 2022 Newsletter to learn about all the timely, relevant and featured resources happening this month!

Activity Calendars are Back!

• Explore ready-to-use activities for August and September that provide students with opportunities to explore their curiosity around a variety of topics. Looking for more? Explore the Instructional Activities Channel. There you’ll find the recent Activity Calendars for Grades K-2 and Grades 3-5. Use them as they are or make your own copy to edit and share.

There have been some exciting updates to the Discovery Education platform: 

• A new Explore page: Looking for inspiration? DE's new Explore page lets you browse by subject, then offers personalized suggestions based on your activity in DE, grade levels, and more.
• New content partners: DE has partnered with Sesame Workshop for PK-2, Minecraft: Education Edition, and Marzano Academies!
• Studio updates: From new fonts to animated buttons, Studio offers a quicker workflow and a few other fun tweaks that will make lesson building easy, creative, and engaging.   
• A brand-new Student Experience: Your students will see a new interface designed to build agency and promote time on task. No more excuses for incomplete assignments!   
• A redesigned My Classrooms: DE has completely overhauled the My Classrooms section, giving teachers a much more intuitive interface to easily navigate classes, assignments, and students. 
• Quiz Library: Have you tried the Quiz Library yet? Each month DE continues to add more pre-built quizzes aligned to DE content to save teachers time and effort in assessing student progress.