Last week I posed a couple of questions about the Common Core standard CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RST.6-8.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts. The first question was What is this standard asking of a student? My response would be that students would need to identify evidence within their science textual resources that [...]
Join us for a LIVE Classroom Webinar Event May 23, 2013 at 1:00pm E/T How Nature Works to Make Clean Energy For All Classrooms Register Now In partnership with The Nature Conservancy, Discovery Education is pleased to offer a Live Classroom Webinar event on exploring renewable energy sources with renowned conservation specialist M. Sanjayan, lead [...]
We are often asked, “does Techbook have Common Core”? To understand the answer to this, one must first understand what is meant by “Common Core”. Common Core is not a curriculum but rather a set of standards to guide the inclusion of literacy and/or math in our science and social studies lessons. So, when someone [...]
The Techbook Times Newsletter, a publication for all of those who are using, or interested in using any Discovery Education Techbook is now available weekly. Click HERE to view the issue for the week of April 30, 2013. Expect a new version every Tuesday.
Join us next week for two webinars presented by Discovery Education and the Siemens Foundation. Register today to receive reminder emails as well as follow-up resources from these great events. Cache In, Trash Out for Earth Day Week: a Geocaching 101 Webinar for Educators For Educators - Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 7pm ET Presented by [...]
The Techbook Times Newsletter, a publication for all of those who are using, or interested in using any Discovery Education Techbook is now available weekly. Click HERE to view the issue for the week of April 16, 2013. Expect a new version every Tuesday.
The NSTA national conference is over and what a conference it was! Between our Corporate Room and our booth on the exhibitors floor we met many educators who were excited about the transition to digital classrooms. Over the course of three days we hosted over 12 workshops and two lunch panels that were all enthusiastically [...]
The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) annual conference is just around the corner and Discovery Education is gearing up to be present in a big way. This year the conference is being held in San Antonio Texas, April 11-14. Discovery Education will be presenting many sessions on ways to use DE Streaming and Science Techbook [...]
2 hours and counting….The countdown has begun for the March Science Livestream featuring the ever engaging Patti Duncan. Join Patti at 1 pm eastern as she shares a lesson on the properties of water utilizing content and activities from the Discovery Education Science Techbook. Chat with us Live….create a Livestream account so that you and [...]
Tuesday, March 19th 2013 at 7pm ET Join us to learn more about one of the Internet’s most exciting and powerful tools! Wolfram|Alpha introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers – not by searching the web, but by performing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods. [...]
If you haven’t joined in on any of the Siemens STEM Academy STEM Connect webcasts in the past, now’s the time to join us! We’ve got 2 phenomenal live events planned for the same day, two weeks from now. Take a look at the events below as well as some resources to help get the [...]
For the educators that were able to join us last Saturday for Techbook Live it was a day of awesome sessions, resources and dialogue. Here are just a few quotes from those who participated. Seriously, the last five hours have been the BEST professional development I’ve had in a very long time…all from the comfort [...]
Do your students turn off the lights when they leave your classroom? Is your cafeteria doing its best to recycle? Do your school grounds need some help from weathering and erosion? Do parents turn off their cars when they are awaiting students to be picked-up at the end of the day? These are the types [...]
We are incredibly excited to announce TECHBOOK LIVE 2013. Saturday, January 26th: 9am – 2pm ET Techbook Live Flyer Click Here to Join the Virtual Event on January 26th Techbook LIVE focuses on providing participants with some of the most effective strategies for transforming their classes through the meaningful and effective integration of digital media content. [...]
MyPhysicsLab is a free site that contains, you guessed it, physics lab simulations. They are simple and created in Java, but illustrate the physics concept quite well. They are organized into topics: springs, pendulums, combinations, collisions, roller coasters, molecules. There is also a section that explains how they work and the math/physics/programming behind creating [...]
What do you get when you combine 10 of the best middle school scientists in the country, Discovery Education, and 3M? You get the final event of the 2012 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge. On Tuesday, October 16, the finalists from the challenge will make their case to be named “American’s Top Young Scientist.” [...]
Those of us in the STEM education community know that the key is to help students see where science, technology, engineering and math relate to real life. So, when an opportunity comes along that exemplifies the real life application of STEM subjects we get real excited and real geeky!! Last week, some friends turned me [...]
How are you using Discovery Education Science TECHBOOK with your students? We want to know. More importantly, your colleagues want to know! Share your awesomeness with us by submitting a lesson presentation, and we’ll say thanks by sending you a stylish Discovery Education Science TECHBOOK lab coat. Here’s the Challenge Create a lesson plan presentation [...]
Are you interested in taking your students to the tundra to observe polar bears? Is that slightly out of your field trip budget? Well, no worries. We have once again joined forces with our friends at Polar Bears International® (PBI) to bring four incredible virtual field trips live to your desktop. Through PBI’s Tundra Connections® you’re invited [...]
This is the presentation I did this past Saturday at the New England Day of Discovery, in Groton CT. There are some great, free resources from Discovery Education available that can help teachers, students, and parents. The content and design of these resources is excellent are are great resources to help students learn. [...]
From interactive science journals to the writing prompt builder to core interactive text, here are some simple and effective strategies for getting your students to act like real scientists as they record data from a variety of “text” and synthesize the information. You can download the presentation here.
These are the Techbook times. So to help connect you with everything Techbook, we provide a monthly newsletter called, “Techbook Times”. Take a look at the September issue below.
Discovery Education is always looking to stay on top of the latest developments and NASA’s successful landing of the Curiosity Rover is no exception. Discovery Education has provided some great free for educators looking for ways to capitalize on their students’ Curiosity about Mars. Check out the Destination Mars lesson plans for some great resources [...]
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