Build Literacy Skills! In grades K-2, use Story Cards to create a foundation for upcoming concepts. Story Card units contain reading passages and activity cards with step-by-step instructor notes.
Hands-on Science kits are ready-to-teach and directly support the labs and activities embedded in every Unit of Science Techbook for Florida. Kits are organized and identifiable by Unit and Concept for easy implementation.
Find engaging lessons that follow the 5E model with point-of-use teacher support, rigorous, yet accessible, literacy lessons, hands-on activities, interactives, auto-graded assessments, student gradebook and assessment data, and more.
The spiralbound Teacher Edition includes point-of-use support such as FL State Standards for Science connections, differentiation and multilingual support, McREL-aligned teaching strategies, common misconceptions, sample answers, and more with QR codes that connect directly to the digital course.
The consumable write-in Student Edition includes scientific reading passages, activities, formative assessments, and more with QR codes that connect directly to the digital course.
Everything students access in the core curriculum (print and digital) is available in authentically translated Spanish including text, videos, interactives, assessments and more.
Science Techbook for Florida is a core curriculum designed to meet the specific needs of Florida educators and students with 100% coverage of the FL State Academic Standards for Science.
In response to feedback from Florida educators, Science Techbook for Florida is a fresh approach to teaching and learning science where students use their reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills to master the FSAS.
Students question, investigate, and explain like scientists while engaged in the Nature of Science benchmarks. Help students overcome misconceptions, build background knowledge, and discover that scientific inquiry is a creative and multifaceted activity.
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.
Science Techbook for Florida includes a variety of formative and summative assessments throughout the learning process, enabling teachers to help Florida students master crucial learning objectives. With these assessments, teachers and students can track progress while gaining hands-on experience with items aligned to the Florida State Academic Standards for Science.
Science Techbook for Florida enables students to question, investigate, and explain like scientists while engaged in the Nature of Science benchmarks throughout the 5E model cycle. Florida teachers can rely on this comprehensive curriculum to help students overcome misconceptions, build background knowledge, and discover that scientific inquiry is a creative and multifaceted activity.
Science Techbook for Florida connects to the most widely used systems and supports a variety of integration standards, making it easier than ever to access and manage data, content, resources, and tools. For the most up to date information, please visit Integrations & Access – Discovery Education Help Center.
Yes! This program was built exclusively for the Florida State Academic Standards for Science. In the accompanying print Teacher Editions, instructors will see standards at point-of-use within the lesson. Print Student Editions and Teacher Editions include standards in the concept openers as an additional reference point.
Digitally, standards are included in the Table of Contents, lesson pages, and within teacher planning and support resources. From the standards page, you can search by standard code or language.
Within the course, students authentically engage with Nature of Science benchmarks as they interact with the curriculum.
Yes! Consumable write-in Student Editions and spiralbound Teacher Editions are available. Both the student and teacher print editions have QR codes that connect directly into the digital course. Additionally, digital content is printable.
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. Students and families can easily switch between two Lexile reading levels in grades 3-8. Teachers can also assign specific reading levels to students as needed.
The embedded Microsoft Immersive Reader offers text translation in 130 languages, the ability to customize font size, color, and spacing, a picture dictionary, and the option to hear text read aloud. The Interactive Glossary fosters the acquisition of academic language and domain-specific vocabulary. Within each lesson, students can hear, read, and practice vocabulary related to each Concept.
Embedded strategies for multilingual students are available at point-of-use within the print and digital Teacher materials. Language supports/scaffolds are provided at varying proficiency levels.
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Yes! The curriculum is a research-backed, FL State Academic Standards for Science-aligned, blended science curriculum custom built for Florida for the current science adoption. The pedagogy of the program is grounded in the 5E instructional model (Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate, Evaluate).
DE’s 5E-based science curriculum provides rigorous, hands-on and digital activities that connect students to the real world around them.
Discovery Education’s product and research teams conducted over 25 studies with thousands of teachers, administrators, and curriculum directors to inform the development of Science Techbook for Florida These research activities included market and product research on instructional needs, in-field feedback sessions with administrators and teachers, interviews, quantitative studies, and prototype testing.Professional Learning supports educators from implementation and throughout the life of the adoption. Expect training that is effective, relevant, and easy to customize just the way you need it! Our Professional Learning services are developed by classroom teachers, and we prioritize content that is relevant to teachers’ current classroom needs. Topics include planning lessons, implementing instructional strategies, collecting data on student learning, and engaging students with high-quality materials. To meet the needs of instructors, we offer one-on-one and small-group options, both in-person and remotely.
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Students are introduced to a real-world science phenomenon in the Engage portion of the 5E instructional model. Phenomena are introduced in one of four ways – hands on activities, video, images or scientific text. This relevant phenomena-based activity excites students as they get ready to explore the upcoming science concept.
Students gather evidence to make sense of the phenomenon through hands-on activities, interactives, videos, and grade-level appropriate scientific texts. There are multiple opportunities that support students’ meaningful sensemaking through reading, writing, thinking, and acting as scientists and engineers. Students revisit the phenomenon while completing Phenomenon Check-ins throughout the program, giving them opportunities to develop understanding of the science concepts.
Yes! Florida Practice Assessments were informed by the test item specification documents developed by the FL DOE. Question types, DOK levels, and other key details aim to mimic the look and feel of the Florida State Science Assessment for Grade 5 and 8.
Science Techbook for Florida includes automatic student remediation! When students need a refresher, they can access remediation assets via their student report dashboard.
Reading passages and videos are available at the question level so students know exactly what to revisit when they get assessment questions incorrect.
