Bridging the Gap in Virginia with Discovery Education
Ignite student curiosity and inspire educators across Virginia to reimagine learning with award-winning digital content, print and hands-on resources, and powerful professional development.
Experience Discovery Education
Discovery Education provides compelling high-quality content, ready-to-use digital lessons, unique collaboration tools, and professional learning resources to give your educators everything they need to facilitate instruction and create a lasting educational impact in any learning environment.
Experience what Discovery Education has to offer through its dynamic learning platform that integrates high-quality content, instructional tools and strategies, and professional learning into the work you do everyday.
Support all Students with:
Literacy Tools
- Immersive Reader
- Lexile scoring
- Differentiated reading levels
Support all Students with:
Accessibility Tools
- Text to speech
- Closed captioning
- Video transcripts
- Enhanced text features like Page Ruler
Available Courses
Virginia Social Studies Techbook is available in the following courses:
- Ancient World History
- Medieval and Early Modern World History
- U.S. History
Differentiated Instruction
Core Interactive Text is available in multiple reading levels as well as in Spanish. Students can highlight text, add sticky notes, have the text read aloud, or print content to paper.
High-Quality Instructional Resources
Through our partnership with news leader MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, Discovery Education offers Global Wrap, a weekly news summary that recaps news of the week from around the world in terms students understand.
Inquiry-Based Instruction
Thousands of carefully curated primary and secondary sources are coupled with focused analysis activities to promote critical thinking.
Find Content You Need
Channels
Our engaging channels offer curated content and resources, such as video segments, images, interactives, and more. Organized by subject areas and topics of interest, educators and students can easily find what they need, when they need it. Easily subscribe to channels and add your favorites to your My DE Homepage for quick access.
Search and Filter By:
- Content partner, publisher, and asset type
- Grade, subject, topic, standard, and skill
- Reading level, Lexile score, and language
Save and Organize
- Save content to QuickList with a simple click.
- Organize content into custom folders in My Content.
Recommendations
We recommend resources on your My DE Homepage based on your personalized settings, such as grade level, subjects and interests.Studio
Assign Studio Boards and Slideshows that enable students to demonstrate their understanding creatively and collaborate with their teachers.
- Enable students to build their own presentations.
- Check for retention and assess learning gaps with Quizzes.
- Access ready-to-use Studio Board lessons to get started.
Use Content to Teach and Assess
Get Started with Educator-Driven Instructional Support
Get started with research-based SOS Instructional Strategies and ready-to-use lesson activities that help save time and energy in planning. Quickly find the right strategy to integrate content into activities, and customize pre-built lessons to fit the needs of your classroom and learners.
Content-Based Assignments
Assign any content resource across grades, subjects, and topics of interest to support differentiated learning and engage students.
Assessment Builder
With Technology-Enhanced Items (TEIs) and randomization, you can create and assign assessments that help measure students’ learning progress.
Track Progress
Manage the progress of your classes and students on assignments and assessments through My Classrooms.
“Discovery Education offers authentic and relevant instructional strategies and resources that are aligned with our state standards, our profile of a graduate, and supports us in meeting the social and emotional learning needs of our students.”
Supervisor of Instructional Technology
Virginia Public Schools