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New Elementary Science Resource from Discovery Education Engages Student Minds

Discovery Education Science for Elementary resources promote student achievement in science while strengthening important literacy and math skills.

Silver Spring, MD(January 15, 2008) – Finding appropriate resources to engage elementary school children in scientific inquiry can be challenging for educators. Meeting this challenge is Discovery Education Science for Elementary. A new digital service from the creators of Discovery Education streaming, Discovery Education Science for Elementary empowers educators to engage student minds with science while reinforcing important literacy and mathematics skills.

Discovery Education Science for Elementary is an extension of the award-winning Discovery Education Science for Middle School, which was launched in 2007. Together, these two products offer a complete digital solution for educators seeking to improve student achievement in the sciences.

Discovery Education Science f or Elementary is organized into four areas, Learn, Explore, Demonstrate and Extend, that helps teachers easily find appropriate resources to guide student learning. In the Learn area, teachers introduce scientific concepts through reading passages and e-books, inquiry-based introductions with audio support, and video segments. Addressing multiple learning styles, these resources support literacy instruction across curriculum.

In the Explore area, educators and students can work together like real scientists through a number of virtual labs and inquiry-based explorations of topics within a unit. By making hypotheses and experimenting with changing variables, students learn to interpret data, draw conclusions supported by data, and practice important mathematical skills.

The Demonstrate area lets students show their understanding of key concepts through two types of assessments. Students can show knowledge through online selected response assessments, which enab le educators to quickly identify student progress, or teachers can print a Brief Constructed Response for students to complete.

The Extend area encourages additional learning and exploration by enabling students to access middle-school-level resources on particular topics. The Extend area also lets students see connections between concepts by exploring concepts that relate to each other.

"Discovery Education Science for Elementary transforms the way elementary school educators teach science," said Tracie Belt, an educator at Shorecrest Preparatory School in St. Petersburg, FL. "Instead of spending time going between different resources to find the appropriate materials for my students, teachers can now go to one central place and find digital content that helps students learn key concepts and encourages additional interest in the sciences."

For more information on Discovery Education Science for Elementary or any other services from Discovery Education, please visit www.discoveryeducation.com. or call 800-323-9084.

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