Science Techbook for Florida

Discover How Easy It Is to Love Science

Available for K-8 classrooms statewide! Science Techbook for Florida is on the FLDOE’s initial list of approved science instructional materials.

Available for K-8 classrooms statewide! Science Techbook for Florida is included on FLDOE’s initial list of adopted instructional materials for science.

All New Florida Curriculum

Meet the specific needs of Florida educators and students with digital lessons, print editions, downloadable resources, and a wealth of support and differentiation tools to ensure teacher effectiveness and student success. 

What is Science Techbook for Florida?

Digital
Find engaging lessons that follow the 5E model with point-of-use teacher support, hands-on activities, interactives, auto-graded assessments, student grade book and assessment data, differentiation tools, and more.
Teacher Edition
The spiralbound Teacher Edition includes point-of-use support such as FL State Standards for Science connections, differentiation, English Learner and teaching strategies, common misconceptions, lesson objectives, materials lists, sample answers, and more with QR codes that connect directly to the digital course.
Student Edition
The consumable write-in Student Edition includes reading passages, activities, formative assessments, and more with QR codes that connect directly to the digital course.
Kits
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.
Story Cards
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.
Authentic Spanish
Science Techbook for Florida is available in authentically translated Spanish to support Florida students.
Previous slide
Next slide
NEW Florida Mockup 2023
Story Cards

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.

Kits

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.

Digital

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. 

Teacher Edition

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. 

Student Edition

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. 

Authentic Spanish

Everything students access in the core curriculum (print and digital) is available in authentically translated Spanish including text, videos, interactives, assessments and more.  

Why Teachers LOVE Science Techbook for Florida

Built NEW for Florida

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.  

Fresh Approach 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.  

Authentic Experiences

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. 

de science techbook florida literacy finish line

Ensure Students Build Literacy Skills Through Science

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.  

Assessing Student Learning

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 florida assessment
science techbook florida nos

Mastering Benchmarks While Becoming Scientists 

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.

fl science logic model

Research-Based science curriculum with Proven Efficacy

Goal: Cultivate a high-quality digital teaching and learning ecosystem from which educators can design engaging instruction aligned to learning goals that will improve student engagement, motivation, agency, and success.

An Integrated Experience

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.

canvas logo homepage
clever logo homepage
google logo homepage
microsoft logo homepage
schoology logo homepage
brightspace logo homepage 1

What Educators Say About DE

Frequently Asked Questions

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. 

To Learn More, Click Here.

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.

Learn more about Professional Learning, here.

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! Science Techbook for Florida provides a complete science curriculum in English and Spanish – available in print and digitally with a single click.  Everything students access in the core curriculum is available in authentically translated Spanish including text, videos, interactives, assessments, and more. We also support multilingual students 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 and other tools that scaffold language and literacy, including text-to-speech, visual accommodations, line focus tools, grammar markings, highlighting and notetaking, and access to 120+ languages. 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. 
Science Techbook for Floridaincludes point-of-Use McREL-Aligned Instructional Strategies including: 
  • Differentiated Instruction support for Approaching, Advanced Learners, and Multilingual Students   
  • English Language Development Support for students needing help accessing the text, and scaffolded reading, speaking, and writing skills are provided at four levels of Beginning, Developing, Expanding, and Bridging  
  • Setting the Purpose includes prompts and discussion topics to activate prior knowledge  
  • Common student Misconceptions with strategies for prevention  
  • Research-based, instructional Spotlight on Strategies (SOS) are embedded in lessons to support student development of literacy skills, background knowledge and comprehension, and scientific vocabulary.  
  • Lesson Objectives and Lesson Standards at point-of-use keep lessons on track.   
  • Discussion questions with suggested answers encourage student discourse.   
  • Answers to assessment prompts are readily available.  
  • Hands-on-Activity Walkthrough Videos prepare educators for upcoming activities and make it quick and easy to implement hands-on learning experiences more often.   

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. 

Science Techbook for Florida includes interactive lessons with intuitive tools promote deeper understanding and, ultimately, greater student success. Look for: 
  • Explore More Resources to assign standards aligned content that focuses on Concept Background, Reinforcement and Extension 
  • Research Based Teacher Planning Materials and Instructional Strategies 
  • Automatic Remediation Resources 
  • Language and Reading Level Toggle 
  • Immersive Reader 
  • Interactive Text and Glossary  
To Learn More, Click Here.

Take the Next Step

  • Built for Florida

  • Student-Centered Learning

  • Time-Optimizing Resources