The California Discovery Education Science Experience
Experience California Science Techbook
This comprehensive science curriculum will change the way your students experience science with a powerful blend of dynamic digital and immersive experiences. Included with your premium package, you have access to a vetted bank of K-12 curriculum resources and on-demand instructional strategies with Discovery Education Experience.
Ignite student interest and open doorways to learning with exciting
real world curriculum resources, packaged with instructional
strategies and personalized for your needs as an educator.
Built for California Classrooms
Science Techbook is an engaging comprehensive learning experience designed to support three-dimensional teaching and learning. Science Techbook follows a coherent and logical storyline approach. Each unit is anchored with a real-world phenomenon, inspiring students to ask the questions they want to investigate. Each concept launches with investigative phenomena to build critical understanding of the underlying science concepts.
Take a 360 view at Science Techbook in action.
Explore the World Utilizing the 5 E’s of Instruction
Your learning platform is built on the 5E model, offering award-winning, research-based core curriculum which has been certified by the New York Academy of Science’s Global STEM Alliance. The differentiation engine optimizes for each student through multi-modal tools, interactive labs, formative assessment tools, and numerous language preferences and Lexile levels.
Inspire Students to Investigate the Marvels of Science
Activate each student’s inner explorer with immersive hands-on activities and rich interactive resources that will get them thinking and acting like scientists. Pre-packaged kits are available for an additional fee to make classroom activities easy to implement and cost-effective.
Creating Equity for EL Learners
Student Equity
Flexible interactive resources and multimedia features support students of different abilities and learning styles. With adjustable reading levels, Spanish/English options, read aloud tools, highlighting and note taking features and an interactive glossary, students will understand scientific language while building key literacy skills. Teachers can accelerate or remediate instruction by utilizing embedded differentiation tools.
Support Educators Every Step of the Way
- Each district will receive a specific number of professional development days free of charge, which can be delivered as needed throughout the duration of the adoption cycle.
- Access to the Professional Learning Center, offering a variety of rich resources to ensure you are getting the most from your Discovery Education services, available on-demand 24/7.
- Membership to the DEN Community, one of the most thriving professional learning networks in the world.
Access and Equity for All Students
- Engage all learners with interactive resources and multimedia, Spanish/English options, adjustable reading levels and read aloud tools.
- Accelerate or remediate instruction with embedded differentiation tools and a real-time teacher dashboard.
Attention-Grabbing Adventures
Phenomena-based, research-backed science curriculum cultivates three-dimensional learning experiences.
To engage students in three-dimensional learning, the instructional units in Discovery Education Science Techbook are designed to support student sense-making and are anchored in phenomena that strategically integrate the DCIs, CCCs, and SEPs.
Students as Lead Investigators
Active investigation of phenomena prompts students to ask questions, build models and develop explanations to generate evidence of sensemaking.
Science Techbook offers students immersive, interactive, and creative ways to explore including hand-on engineering activities and labs, virtual investigations, and STEM connections.
Exciting Content that Inspires Curiosity
Exclusive, original, and highly engaging content makes science exciting and relevant for all students.
The phenomena and content used in Science Techbook is provided through our dynamic K-12 learning platform, Experience. Vetted by curriculum experts and differentiated by grade level, it mirrors the interests of students and helps them make relevant, lasting connections between science, the classroom, and their everyday lives.
Inspire California’s Students of Today and Create the Scientists of Tomorrow
Global Experience, Local Impact
Discovery Education is the global leader in K-12 award-winning digital content. Serving 4.5 million educators and over 50 million students, our services are in half of U.S. classrooms, 50 percent of all primary schools in the UK, and more than 50 countries.
We’ve combined global experience with local insights and state-specific standards to develop a collection of fun, effective resources for the California classroom.
Contact Us Today for More Information
Kevin Quinlan
Regional Vice President
Education Partnerships
KQuinlan@discoveryed.com