Move into March with new, engaging resources from Discovery Education! Commemorate Women’s History Month, explore literacy topics, and find content to help you make your mark with exciting March lessons!
Pop of Professional Learning
Every teacher has thought, “How can I make this lesson more exciting for my students?”, and many are turning to interactive resources because they offer essential skills practice in a fun, exciting way. The DE team has gathered the most popular Interactives into a new blog post so you can easily see what resources other DE teachers love!
What's New
Make the most of your March lessons with new content from Discovery Education! These newly-released resources can help your students learn about different communities, interact with exciting careers, explore literacy topics, and build important life skills.
Amazon Career Tours
Grades 3-8
Explore cutting-edge careers and technology with Career Tours, created in partnership with Amazon! Career Tours are free, interactive resources aligned to learning standards that showcase the people and technology behind Amazon’s innovations. Look inside an Amazon Robotic Fulfillment Center to discover how computer science helps deliver customer orders, head aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft to learn how Alexa went to the moon, and enter an AWS Data Center to uncover “the cloud”!
Life Skills Channel
Grades K-12
Empower students in grades K-12 with curated, high-quality resources to help them develop critical life skills in the classroom and beyond. In this new channel, educators and students can explore topics like resiliency, character, personal responsibility, mentorship and citizenship, problem solving, and more!
Literary Genres with Makematic
Grades 3-8
Explore the characteristics of different genres, or types, of texts you read with a brand-new video series you can find in the Literary Genres Channel. These new videos allow students to learn more about the broad categories of fiction, drama, poetry, and nonfiction, and the many kinds of texts, such as mysteries, fairy tales, and more!
My Digital Life
Grades PreK-8
Norton and Discovery Education have teamed up to create a new digital citizenship animated topic series from My Digital Life, Irresponsible Behaviors! Help students navigate the do’s & don’ts of life online by teaching your students how to identify common types of irresponsible online behaviors such as verifying sources of information and thinking twice about the information they share.
NFL PLAY 60 Fitness Break Super Bowl LVIII
Grades PreK-8
Keep up the excitement of Super Bowl LVIII with NFL PLAY 60’s latest Fitness Break! The American Heart Association and the National Football League teamed up to get kids active for 60 minutes a day through NFL PLAY 60. Join special guests from the NFL as they talk about the importance of physical fitness and demonstrate fun ways to move more!
Sesame Workshop Sounds and Letters
PreK-2
Engage and deepen students’ phonemic awareness, phonics, and word-building skills with The Electric Company! The Sounds and Letters collection progresses from simpler to more complex sound-letter relationships to help students decode and generate words. These new resources explore consonant groups (digraphs, trigraphs, and blends) and vowel groups (diphthongs, digraphs, and r-controlled).
Social Studies with Mazarella
Grades PreK-5
With a brand-new Social Studies video series from Mazarella and Discovery Education, students in grades PreK-5 can explore the communities of the past and present! This series has new videos about life in the Middle Ages in India, Africa, and the Swahili Empire. Next, students can step into today’s world to learn about work, geography, and rules of different communities!
STEM Careers Coalition
Grades K-12
The STEM Careers Coalition has released new resources to encourage career exploration both in and out of the classroom! The new Curiosity Circle Career Profile videos and instructional activities highlight inspiring problem solvers who make a difference in their communities. The brand-new Kickstarting Curiosity: Extracurricular STEM Tools and Tactics series and Family Resources provide fun and accessible ways for students to build their problem-solving skills and extend their STEM knowledge even after class time wraps up.
Trending Topics
Discovery Education Experience is here to help you stay up-to-date with March’s timely moments!
- Honor Women’s History Month with impactful DE resources that highlight stories from extraordinary women in history and feature modern women making a difference.
- March 2 is Read Across America Day! Revamp your students’ reading habits with read-aloud resources from Vooks!
- Inspire scientific exploration for World Engineering Day on March 4 with resources from the STEM Careers Channel, the IF/THEN STEM Professionals Channel, and Science Fair Central.
- Prepare for a mathematics party on March 14 ― Pi Day! Check out the Pi Day Channel for videos, simulations, and articles related to this numerical holiday.
- March 17-23 marks National Agriculture Week! Dig into the exciting ways that the agricultural cooperative (co-op) business model connects communities and inspires everyday innovation nationwide with Cooperative Minds, created in partnership between CHS Foundation and Discovery Education.
Magic Moment
Make magic this March by bringing your students’ real-life interests into the classroom! This month on the DE Blog, DEN STAR Merek Chang shared his tips for using NBA and WNBA content to infuse his students’ interest in basketball into lessons on data science.
Discovery Education can help you make every moment in March count with new ideas, resources, and lessons—all in one place!