Discovery Education Experience
Discovery Products
The products below are available through ESC-20:
Discovery Education Experience
Discovery Education Experience is a daily learning platform that provides approximately 200,000 standards-aligned resources. From videos and video segments, to audio files, songs, audiobooks, podcasts, virtual field trips, STEM lessons, formative assessment tools and more! Formative assessment tools include Ask Live Quiz and Video Quizzes. Standard Quizzes continue and include enhanced question types such as drawing or audio recording responses. Other new resources include: Sesame Learning, Marzano Academy, Vooks (storybooks brought to life), DEmystified (science) and Phenomenal Science!
Differentiation and accessibility is enhanced with Microsoft's Immersive Reader. Text-to-speech, closed captioning, native language translation and more are supported in activities in DEX Studio that use Immersive Reader.
Channels organize content and are organized around curriculum and instructional strategies. A small sampling of the over 700 available channels include:
- English Language Learners (ELL) Channel
- Texas History
- Instructional Activities
- Phenomenal Science Channel
- The Magic School Bus
- Virtual Field Trips
- Health
- Social-Emotional Learning Center
- Financial Literacy
- Fables and Folktales
- SOS Instructional Strategies
- Student Learning Activities
- Learning at Home Channel
30 Ways to Use Discovery as a Daily Learning Tool
DE Tips & Tricks
Science, STEM, & Career Exploration Resources
Discovery Education Experience Toolkit Flyer: Information on differentiation and personalization; literacy; social-emotional learning; English language learners; building teacher capacity and bridging the digital divide.
CODING is provided at no charge to all districts who have district-wide subscriptions to Discovery Education Experience for the 2024-25 school year. This curriculum resource includes lessons on Block Coding, Python, and HTML. Easily accessible lessons use your student's existing Discovery Education accounts! Lessons include Student Guides, Help Videos, Lesson Plans and more! Designed to be used by all teachers, and an excellent resource to meet computational thinking TEKS. CODING is located at the bottom of your home page.
Mystery Science is an add-on product for K-5 campuses. Mystery Science includes ready to use lessons and resources in English and Spanish aligned with the new Science TEKS for SY24-25.
Mystery Science pricing is a per-campus purchase based on student enrollment:
| Enrollment | Mystery Science Pricing |
| 0 - 198 students | $ 350.00 |
| 199 - 379 students | $ 750.00 |
| 380 - 530 students | $ 950.00 |
| 531 students + | $1,150.00 |
Discovery Science K-8 is a compelling, interactive digital science service that drives deep interest in core science concepts. Pricing for K-8 is $1,900 per campus.
Discovery Science K-8 includes virtual labs, explorations, literacy-building reading passages, and a real-time assessment component that monitors student progress. All resources are organized around an inquiry-based framework that addresses physical, earth, space, and life sciences designed to encourage exploration, stimulate critical thinking, and deepen students’ understanding of science.
Discovery Education Science allows students to explore and investigate science in real-life situations through a variety of media, including:
 Virtual Labs Reading Passages "Extend" Content Video Interactive Glossary Science Simulations e-Books Science Sleuths Fun-damentals |
Encourage students to think like scientists with content aligned to standards:
- Take students beyond theory through engaging, practical demonstrations and investigations with virtual labs and explorations.
- Demonstrate how models work and how different inputs impact an outcome through integrated science simulations.
Drive deeper interest and engagement in science curriculum with videos and interactive assets:
- Videos segmented into concept-level clips bring key scientific concepts to life with compelling titles and hosts including Mythbusters, Planet Earth, and Jeff Corwin.
- Interactive assets bring concepts to life including Science Sleuths, Fun-damentals, and the Interactive Periodic Table.
Reinforce language arts, comprehensive literacy, and mathematics skills with science content:
- Extend students’ learning through an interactive glossary that provides explanations of hundreds of scientific terms via animations, text, videos, and images.
- Support struggling readers and ELL students via eBooks with audio support and grade-appropriate informational science text.
- Students will learn to interpret data, draw fact-based conclusions, and practice important math skills through virtual labs.
For New and Transferring Teacher Users
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Most User Accounts are part of District Single-Sign On! Check with your campus librarian or district technology department. Your district is required to have single-sign on in place for faculty, staff, and students. Discovery Education offers a variety of free Single Sign On (SSO) integrations to quickly and securely access content. By implementing SSO, users will easily authenticate using their existing district credentials. This provides teachers and students easy access to their content, so they can keep learning in school, from home, and on their devices. Integrations & Access Ease your user management and overcome access challenges by choosing one of the SSO integration options below. Each link provides a user guide and technical requirements so you can see if it meets your district needs. Clever Instant Login (SSO Only) Ready to get started? A district-level administrator should complete the Single Sign-On Integration Services Agreement and we can help you with next steps!
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Creating new teacher accounts using passcodes is easy! If for some reason Single-Sign on is not yet functioning at your district, teachers may create their own Discovery Education account using their school's teacher passcode. Each teacher passcode is a random eight-character alphanumeric code (example: A123-B123). Passcodes are unique and specific to each individual school/building within your school district. Once you obtain your school's passcode, go to www.discoveryeducation.com and click on the Passcode/New User tab. Enter your school's eight-digit passcode in the provided boxes, and click on Login. If you do not know your school passcode, please contact your school or district Discovery Education administrator or the ESC-20 staff appearing on this page.
You will be required to enter your information in order to create a user account. Please note that your username must be at least 6 characters long and unique not only to your school but unique to the whole DE community. Please do not use personal information (such as Social Security Numbers) when creating your username. We highly suggest using your district email address as your username. |
Managing Classes
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Managing Classes Click on the links below to learn how to manage class accounts. Discovery Education also integrates with many Learning Management Systems (LMS) detailed at this site. Note: You must first log into your Discovery account. If your school does not provide integration with your LMS, you can manually create a Discovery Education class and then add students from your school roster. |
Training Opportunities
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Online Training Resources - Educator Supports
Whether your teachers are new to the service or seasoned users, Discovery Education's Professional Learning Center provides great tips, tricks, and practical integration strategies for using this digital resource. Click on the Educator Supports button from the main menu to access: Resources include:
Educators who complete the interactive courses available via DEX receive certificates of completion that may be applied toward Continuing Education Credit at the discretion of their district. Webinars You have access to all archived webinars, including special events and walkthroughs of the Discovery Education Experience by logging in and selecting Getting Started OR Professional Learning from the Educator Supports button. Webinars and on-demand archives are available under Educator Supports / Timely Resources / Join an Event. Note: Discovery Techbook subscriptions are not offered through ESC-20. These are purchased via your District's instructional materials adoption process. |
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Other Training Opportunities
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Contact us for your training needs. Cyndi Zaragoza Susan Reeves |
Studio (formerly Board Builder)
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What is a Studio Project? Studio is a Discovery tool that allows students and teachers to create a digital poster or slide show that may contain embedded videos (from Discovery Education or uploaded from other devices), audio files, text, images, and even attached documents. Although a student may create multiple Studio projects, their projects will not be viewable to other users until their teacher has approved the project. Any edits made after the initial project approval will require resubmission to a teacher. Students can only create Studio projects when they have an individual Discovery login. Once student accounts are created at the campus or district level, teachers will log into Discovery Education and go to their Classrooms channel to create classes and add students. |
Multimedia Content Guidelines Here are the file types acceptable for use in a Studio project:
Files sizes are 100 MB maximum (usually video files under 5 minutes). Remember to select the segment of an overall video that is most applicable to the project. To locate a citation for a Discovery Education video, open the full video, then look for the Details tab, View Citations button. Pre-formatted citations in MLA, APA, and Chicago Manual of Style are available. |
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Studio Projects can be created by teachers and by students. Teachers may create Studio Projects to contain lesson/center activities, quizzes, or to organize entire units. Go to Advanced Search, filter by topic and type of resource to see what other teachers have created. From your top menu, search for any keyword and then click on ACTIVITIES to see existing studio activities that can be assigned to students, or copied and remade for your purposes! Students will have a link to create Studio projects from the top of their homepage. If you have Google Docs, you may access this sample rubric and go to File/Make a copy to keep it with your files, or you may go to File/Download As and choose a format.
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For Discovery Education District and School Account Administrators
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Why Teachers Like Discovery
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Ensure student and teacher access! Your district is required to have single-sign on in place for faculty, staff, and students. Discovery Education offers a variety of free Single Sign On (SSO) integrations to quickly and securely access content. By implementing SSO, users will easily authenticate using their existing district credentials. This provides teachers and students easy access to their content, so they can keep learning in school, from home, and on their devices. Integrations & Access Ease your user management and overcome access challenges by choosing one of the SSO integration options below. Each link provides a user guide and technical requirements so you can see if it meets your district needs. Clever Instant Login (SSO Only) Ready to get started? A district-level administrator should complete the Single Sign-On Integration Services Agreement and we can help you with next steps!
Usage Reports Discovery Education school administrators may run reports from the My Admin screen > Reports Home. Reports are designed to be 'drilled down' for detailed information on usage at the teacher, student and resource level. |
Cost
Discovery Education Experience is offered through the ESC-20 as an independent resource (does not require a coop membership).
2024-25 Pricing for Discovery Education Experience:
| Product | Cost |
| Access to Discovery Education Experience K-12 | $1.98 per student |
| Access to Discovery Education Coding K-12 | included at no charge for district-wide subscribers |
| Access to Mystery Science K-5 | Per Campus subscription based on enrollment |
| 0-198 students | $ 350.00 |
| 199 - 379 students | $ 750.00 |
| 380 - 530 students | $ 950.00 |
| 531 students + | $1,150.00 |
*The cost of Discovery subscriptions will be based on student enrollment reported by the district to the Texas Education Agency .
Subscription commitments are made via the ESC-20 Commitment System
If you have any questions about a DE Subscription, please contact Cyndi Zaragoza.
Discovery Add-On Options:
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Discovery Education Science K-8 |
$1,900 per K-8 campus |
Districts may sign up through the ESC-20 Commitment System.
