Let’s get started with your review of grades K-8 and see how this engaging program supports all Florida classrooms!
Discovery Education’s Science Techbook for Florida is a comprehensive core curriculum designed for Florida teachers and students.
Concept Summative assessments and Statewide Practice Assessments are written to test item specifications for the Florida Statewide Science Assessment.
Concept Summative assessments and Statewide Practice Assessments are written to test item specifications for the Florida Statewide Science Assessment.
Easily meet lab and activity requirements with engaging Hands-on Activities and Interactives that fit into a standard lesson. HOA prep videos within the teacher notes support educators with delivery.
Inform instruction with ongoing formative and summative assessments, many with auto-grading. Progress monitoring allows for district-wide reports.
Science Techbook for Florida provides a complete science curriculum in English and Spanish.
Science phenomena and activities often feature Florida locations so students can truly see themselves in the program.
Science Techbook for Florida is a hands-on and immersive active learning program. Watch students transform into junior scientists and engineers through engaging real-world lessons.
Students build conceptual understanding and nature of science skills through hands-on activities, interactives, and grade-level appropriate scientific texts in every Concept.
Giving students a unique advantage to engage with real-world phenomena, act and think like scientists, and discover a love of science.
Science content is represented in multiple ways—text, videos, hands-on activities, imagery, interactives, prompts, and more—building student confidence in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
To meet the needs of instructors, Discovery Education offers flexible professional learning options, including in-person and remote sessions. One-on-one and small-group sessions are available. Topics include planning lessons, implementing instructional strategies, collecting data on student learning, and engaging students with high-quality materials.
Make the most of your time! Science Techbook for Florida includes intuitive digital tools that personalize the student experience and instructor resources that streamline processes.
The Science Techbook for Florida Dashboard is a data collection and student engagement tool. All assessment results are available in one easy-to-access place and can be organized and exported by Florida standards for ease-of-use. Real-time data on each lesson provides quick actionable insights into student understanding and learning gaps, and allows the ability to rectify misconceptions ensuring achievement. Assessments have autoscoring and grade passback capabilities to further enable progress monitoring.
Most assessment items are machine-scored to expedite the collection, analysis, and implementation of data in the cycle of learning. Rubrics are often available at point-of-use for constructed-response questions.
Yes! Science Techbook for Florida provides a complete science curriculum in English and Spanish available in print and digitally via a simple click.
We also support Multilingual Learners with embedded listening, reading, writing, and speaking supports to help students meet grade-level science content expectations. Students will benefit from features like Immersive Reader, Interactive Glossary, authentically translated lessons, summative and formative assessments in English and Spanish, and more. Teachers can access point-of-use English Language Development Support strategies for multiple proficiency levels to meet the needs of their learners and use student data to inform and differentiate instruction.
For more information about how we support multilingual learners, click here.
Science Techbook for Florida is compatible with a variety of learning management systems, including Google Classroom, Canvas, Schoology, Microsoft Teams, and more. For the latest information on integrations and access, visit the Discovery Education Help Center.
Science Techbook for Florida provides several formative and summative assessment opportunities, carefully embedded in the cycle of learning to help teachers guide their students to mastery of key learning targets and objectives.
These assessment opportunities allow teachers and students to monitor progress and provide direct practice questions written to the Florida Test Item Specifications across a variety of assessment formats. Ongoing formative assessment questions are embedded in the lessons – look for “What Did You Figure Out?”, “Check for Understanding”, and “Phenomenon Check-In” prompts as well as Claim-Evidence-Reasoning Scientific Explanations.
In the Evaluate lessons you will find Concept Summative Assessments. The question types in these assessments are written to FL test item specifications. Many assessments are automatically graded and instructors can view individual student and class performance in the Concept Assessment Results section. Instructors can edit these assessments to meet individual student needs. Additionally, Automatic Remediation assets, such as reading passages and videos, are accessible via the student report dashboard so students know exactly what to revisit when they get assessment questions incorrect.
Statewide Practice Assessment for Grades 5 and 8 were informed by the test item specification documents developed by the FL DOE and aim to mimic the look and feel of the Florida State Science Assessment.
Science Techbook for Florida has four Units in every K-8 grade level. Units are divided into a series of Concepts purposely scaffolded to unpack the science ideas associated with the Units’ standards.
Each Concept contains a series of 5E lessons broken into learning activities that follow a logical progression and are designed to build student understanding of scientific concepts.
Instruction in each Concept launches with a real-world phenomenon to engage students and inspire them to make connections and ask questions that will drive their investigations. As students progress through the Concept, they circle back to the phenomenon to extend their understanding and explain it.
Teachers can easily access materials in print or within the digital course and take advantage of a wide variety of options that support them and their students at every step of the learning journey. Point-of-Use McREL-Aligned Instructional Strategies include:
Science Techbook for Florida includes embedded support tools that cater to the learning needs of diverse students, especially multilingual learners, and is available online, offline, printed, and with read-aloud options.
Traditional Literacy lessons, Universal Design for Learning principles, and McREL-aligned strategies prepare students for a lifetime of learning and literacy through the reading, writing, speaking, and listening domains. Embedded throughout the text are graphic organizers, prompts, an interactive glossary, videos, images, and more to deepen scientific understanding and support peer discussion. K-5 Literacy lessons, with activities such as Read Togethers, are delivered via a slideshow and include strategies for whole and small-group instruction.
Literacy Cards enhance lessons for students in grades K-2.
Vocabulary terms are highlighted with direct links to the interactive glossary that is unique to Science Techbook for Florida, where terms are defined and expanded with student-friendly key contexts, images, videos, and animations to support long-term acquisition.
Students and instructors can also take advantage of the Immersive Reader located within the Slide Show lessons and the interactive glossaries. Immersive Reader provides personalized access to the curriculum with features such as read-aloud, line focus, translation, and grammar markings, as well as the ability to adjust the size, style, and color of the font.
Teachers can assign additional standards-aligned text readings with Explore More Resources, which focus on building Concept Background, Reinforcement, and Extension. Reading passages include read-aloud, language translations, and reading rulers.
