Step closer to summer with new resources from Discovery Education! Find engaging content for your May lessons to keep your students excited about learning through the end of the school year.
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Educators, administrators, and corporate leaders all agree: we need to encourage girls to explore STEAM skills and consider STEM careers for their futures. But how? This month, members of the Discovery Educator Network took to the DE blog to share content, programs, and ideas they have found to be successful in bringing more girls to the world of STEAM!
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Make the most of your May lessons with new content from Discovery Education! These newly-released resources can help your students learn about westward expansion, read about science topics, and explore the wonders of the wilderness.
Anatomy of a Hit Song
Grades K-8
Take students behind the scenes of music production, with the Country Music Association, to learn what goes into making a hit song with the new Video Series Anatomy of a Hit Song! Students will learn how STEAM is an essential ingredient every step of the way. Standards-aligned classroom activities, discussions, and career connections bring lessons to life as students engage with what they’ve just seen.
Brave Wilderness
Grades 3-8
Brave Wilderness’ vision is to revolutionize how people learn about and interact with the natural world, while inspiring the conservation of our planet for current and future generations, by becoming the epicenter of animal and adventure-based entertainment. The five new videos shine light on some of the most amazing and at-risk species on the planet and highlight how we can all be better advocates of our environment and its inhabitants.
The Fixies
Grades PreK-5
Follow the comical misadventures of Tom Thomas and his secret friendship with Simka and Nolik, the children of the Fixie family that lives in his apartment with brand-new episodes for Season 3! There’s just no end to the troubles Tom Thomas and his Fixie friends get themselves into with all the gadgets and appliances around them!
Teaching With Testimony
Grades 6-12
The USC Shoah Foundation’s new ready-to-use activities on Testimony and Civic Skills are designed to be student facing explorations that help students analyze the ways in which testimony can introduce and reinforce important civic skills like empathy, courage, resilience, and more. This ongoing series provides educators with flexible and more narrowly focused resources that put students in control of their own learning as they listen, analyze, and reflect on the testimonies they viewed.
TimePod Adventures: Genetic Trails
Grades 3-8
Discover the wonders of prehistoric Earth in this immersive learning experience with TimePod Adventures, a program created with Verizon. Available through a 3D virtual field trip on desktop experience and free in app stores, students go back 67 million years to the Late Cretaceous Period to uncover topics such as evolution, fossilization, paleontology, and more! Throughout, students are guided by an AI assistant named ADA, who provides additional information. Keyboard controls and mission objectives are always visible. Get ready for an adventure that transcends time!
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Discovery Education Experience is here to help you stay up-to-date with May’s timely moments. Find ideas for commemorating Asian American and Pacific Islander Month, Memorial Day, and more!
- May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month meant to commemorate the rich heritage, historical roots, culture, and achievements of Asian Americans and Asian American Pacific Islanders! DE has a variety of content to help you highlight the various cultures and countries that make up the continent of Asia, and how Asian Americans and AAPIs continue to shape the United States as activists, authors, and changemakers.
- May 1 also marks the start of Mental Health Awareness Month! Find resources on a variety of mental health matters like resources on self-esteem from Amazing Me by the Dove Self-Esteem Project, new videos about navigating digital distractions from Creative Visions, and lessons on exploring different feelings with Sesame Learning’s Feelings Time.
- Pump up your May lessons for National Physical Fitness Month with content in the Health and Fitness Channel and the Operation Prevention Virtual Field Trip.
- On May 5, celebrate Cinco de Mayo, a holiday that commemorates the Mexican army’s victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, with resources from the Cinco De Mayo Channel!
- Work some new ideas into your lessons May 6-11 for Women in Construction Week with HAUL!, a 3D Virtual Field Trip to a Copper Mine, where students take the wheel of a 2-story high mining truck.
- May 6-11 is Teacher Appreciation Week! Show teachers how much their hard work is appreciated during this annual May celebration and read why DE loves teachers!
- Try out some new tech for May 11’s National Technology Day with GoldieBlox’s escape room experience.
- May 19 is Malcom X Day, which is a great chance to learn more about Malcom X’s career and contributions to the Civil Rights Movement.
- Honor those who have served our country on May 27 for Memorial Day with resources from the Memorial Day Channel.
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Discovery Education is here to help you add new ideas, resources, and content into your May lessons!
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