Welcome to Discovery Education Science for Elementary

Digital Media that Works

Enhance science instruction with a formative assessment tool that enables you to monitor student progress and recommend resources based on individual student needs. Empower students to think and explore like scientists.

Engage student minds with science while reinforcing important literacy and mathematics skills.

Log In Screen

New users must click the tab

“Passcode/New User Login”

to get started.

New Users – the school Passcode 1A1T 2C4I New users in each school building will need to know the unique 8-character Passcode that has been assigned to their school. When new users enter the Passcode and click the “Go” button, they will be taken to an account set-up screen.

Setting Up Accounts

This is the form you will see when you have entered your school

Passcode

. The key field in this form is the “Username” field, since your log-in name must be unique to the entire Discovery Education Science for Elementary subscriber base. Before you click the “Continue” button, be sure that you are familiar with the

Terms of Use

and click the box that signifies that you agree to Discovery Education’s subscription terms.

Logging into DE Science for Elementary

Use the

“Subscriber Login”

tab to log in with username and password.

Logging into DE Science for Elementary

Locate Discovery Education Science Elementary School under My Services

Enhance Your Instruction with Multimedia Content Keyword Search Advanced Search Curriculum Standards Search Browse three areas of science

Browse Units, Topics & Concepts Unit Topics Concepts

Glossary Terms Glossary terms are available on each Concept page.

Glossary Terms A full list of over 500 commonly used science terms is always available on the left side of the Glossary window.

Students click the tabs to access information in a variety of formats.

Pathways to Science Investigation

Concept pages provide pathways through the content.

LEARN

Students gain information about a concept in the Learn section.

EXPLORE

Interactive media enables students to practice and experience science.

DEMONSTRATE

Check for understanding with materials found in the Demonstrate section.

EXTEND

Students extend their learning with materials found in the Extend Section.

Pathways to Science Investigation LEARN Video Segments

are divided into chapters that illustrate specific concepts within each topic.

Reading Passages

are leveled to support a variety of readers.

eBooks

enable struggling readers and students whose first language is not English to read and listen to science content.

Pathways to Science Investigation EXPLORE Explorations

enable students to manipulate variables and test their predictions about outcomes.

Virtual Labs

are designed to give students the opportunity to practice designing and conducting virtual investigations.

Pathways to Science Investigation EXPLORE: VIRTUAL LABS Introduction Tab

This part sets the stage for the investigation by presenting a real-world problem around which the investigation is based.

Investigate Tab

Students choose single or multiple variables to test and observe and then conduct their investigations.

Results Tab

Students view a record of trial results in chart form.

Pathways to Science Investigation DEMONSTRATE Online Assessments

pair formative assessment tools with dynamic content.

Brief Constructed Responses

monitor your students’ deeper understanding of science concepts.

Pathways to Science Investigation EXTEND

Extend provides content that goes into greater detail about the concept or extends the concept beyond elementary level expectations.

Teacher Center

Access powerful tools that allow you to build and manage assessments; create multimedia projects; build and manage classrooms; and access resources that foster science process skills.

Teacher Center - Classroom Manager Create a new Classroom Manage Classrooms and Content

Teacher Center - Assessment Manager

Enhance science instruction with a formative assessment tool that allows you to monitor student progress and recommend resources based on students’ individual needs.

Create

• Standards-based assessments • Custom assessments • Edit existing assessments

Assign

• Assessments you’ve already created • Assessments created by Discovery Education

Report & Recommend

• View results by student • View results by class

Teacher Center - Assignment Builder Build your own online assignments

incorporating digital media, assessments and links to other websites

Search existing assignments

Teacher Center - Process Skills Library

Media in the Process Skills Library addresses the critical thinking skills students must acquire in order to successfully engage in the scientific process.

Virtual Labs

Students design and conduct their own scientific investigations

Science Sleuths

Students examine science mysteries and use articles, interviews and video to solve the problem

MythBusters

Episodes have been selected and edited for school audiences and illustrate the adventure and careful use of scientific process to prove a science myth, or bust it!

My Content

Use My Content to collect, organize, retrieve, and assign your favorite media resources in one convenient place.

Add media resources and assessments to folders you create Use the Action pull down menu to copy, move, assign or delete media at any time

Add a Resource to My Content 1. Locate a resource and click “View Details” 2.

Click “Add to My Content” 3. Select an existing folder in My Content or create a new folder to add the resource 4.

Click “Add”

Professional Development

Access a variety of resources designed to help you make the most effective use of Discovery Education Science for Elementary digital media.

Presentation Strategies and Software Integration

Presentation Models

Common ways teachers, Media Specialists, and technology coordinators display Discovery Education Science for Elementary content: – Computer connected to an LCD projector – Interactive whiteboards – Televisions with scan converters – Computer labs – Libraries and Media Centers – Mobile carts with laptop computers – Student “stations” and “centers”

Teaching Strategies to Consider Create “investigative teams.” Have students work in small groups on Virtual Labs or Explorations to develop testable questions, test their hypotheses and record results.

Pose questions or prepare thought provoking “lesson starters” before viewing media to actively engage students.

Assign Reading Passages that reinforce concepts and provide background information.

Determine prior knowledge with a pre-activity assessment. Use assessment results to assign appropriate media to individual students.

Connect your computer to a projector and use Explorations or a video clip as presentation tools to kick off a lesson.

Save time by saving your favorite resources to folders within My Content.

Questions?

Technology Information to Know Recommended 3 rd

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party software: Windows Media Player - PC Apple QuickTime Player - Mac Flash 8.0 or Greater Adobe Shockwave Player Screen Resolution:

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Minimum : 800 x 600

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Best results: 1024 x 768 DE Science is designed for use with a broadband internet connection.

Home users with 56k modems can search and use support materials; viewing interactive media and performing downloads may be possible but will be very slow.

Video files, reading passages and brief constructed responses may be downloaded. All other content is available online only via streaming.

You may need to install updated “codecs” if the media player is not properly playing the audio or video components.