My Take
I recommend this without hesitation. It requires a bit of set-up in the beginning (creating student accounts) and setting up a routine with your learners...but it is completely worth it. This makes science fun for all learners. Plus the data the teacher collects guides instruction so there is never a dull moment!
How I Use It
I used the paid application for my 3rd, 4th and 5th grade science classes. It is fantastic. Motivating, engaging and easily differentiated. Students explore, evaluate and collect data on a variety of topics.
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Marco M.
Southwest High School
Jacksonville, NC
January 18, 2019
Discovery Education is a good tool for planning as well as on the spot in class!
I am using the part that you have to pay for but it is well worth it.
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Jill B.
December 14, 2015
Discover a whole new world with Discovery Education.
The assessment tool is good as it gets better and better every year. However, I wish the assessment was more real-world. I wish there were other assessment type questions besides multiple choice. It does read the questions, answers and passages to younger students. Overall, this is a very good resource with a lot of extra tools that are still being discovered and that DE is continuing to add.
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Marcello S.
December 2, 2015
High quality curated resources with a ton of media options
This is a great resource and its free. I have experienced the paid version and deeply wished they made it available for free or a more reasonable price, it really does have much more resources. The student facing products are extremely basic and not engaging, definitely more of a teacher facing website. I would love to see them open up more of the content that is behind the paywall, maybe in a rotating way of letting some videos/resources go free for a month at a time.
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