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Science Techbook for Elementary

Engaging, fun and effortlessly easy-to-use, Science Techbook is more than an elementary curriculum – it’s next generation learning! Backed by proven efficacy and teacher-tested instructional strategies, this program will support you every step of the way.

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Science Techbook meets Tier III and Tier IV evidence requirements in compliance with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

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Science Techbook for Elementary includes 3-5 Units per grade level that introduce new topics through an Anchor Phenomenon Storyline.
Extended and Express pacing is available for increased flexibility.

Why Elementary Teachers LOVE Science Techbook

Learning is Fun

Cultivate a passion for learning that deepens comprehension and boosts outcomes.

Time-Optimizing Resources

Focus on what matters with tools that streamline educators’ workload for greater efficiency.

Proven Efficacy

We regularly verify the efficacy of Science Techbook across a variety of educational settings, programs, and contexts.

Science Techbook for Elementary Classrooms

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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.

Hands-on Activity Kits

Hands-on science kits are ready-to-teach and directly support the labs and activities embedded in every Unit of Science Techbook. Kits are organized and identifiable by Unit and Concept for easy implementation.

Digital Science Techbook (EN & ES)

Find engaging, ready-to-teach lessons that follow a simplified 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 standards connections, differentiation, 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 colorful, consumable write-in Student Edition includes reading passages, activities, formative assessments, and more with QR codes that connect directly to the digital course.

Authentic Spanish

Science Techbook is in authentically translated Spanish in both print and digital formats.

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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.
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Content that Matters to Students!

Hook elementary students with an Anchor Phenomenon at the start of every unit. With topics like “Why do Wolves Howl,” “How do Bees Find Nectar” and “What Causes Shadows” – students eagerly dive in to discover the answers. Throughout an action-packed journey, students become junior scientists and engineers as they ask questions, investigate, and collaborate to solve real-world problems.

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Do Science to Learn Science!

Ask Questions, Investigate, Analyze, Explain and Evaluate like a scientist! Drive discoveries with hands-on activities and interactives that promote active investigation of phenomena. Multiple activity types give middle school students authentic yet accessible experiences with science content.

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Uncomplicated Differentiation Tools

Address diverse learning needs and engage all students with multimodal learning resources, English and Spanish options, interactive glossaries, adjustable reading levels, read-aloud and note-taking tools, as well as extension and enrichment activities.

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Practical & Effective Instructional Strategies

Instructional supports that work! Find guidance to facilitate active student participation and engagement and tools that work together to aid educators in building a successful three-dimensional learning experience.

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Assess, Monitor and Succeed!

Formative, summative and 3D performance-based assessments are integrated into each unit’s learning cycle, aiding student proficiency in defined learning goals. The Teacher Dashboard provides real-time data access, enabling prompt feedback and informed instructional decisions.

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Use Discovery Education Every Day

Use Science Techbook, our K-12 core curriculum solution, with purposeful supplemental science programs from Discovery Education. Create a science solution that’s a perfect fit for your district’s needs.

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Experience

Take students from curious to content mastery! Standards-aligned, high-quality, vetted content from brands students love like Sesame Street, Shark Week, DE Originals, and more.
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Mystery Science

Mystery Science is a unique, standards-aligned science curriculum for grades K-5 designed to help students stay curious! Mystery Guides lead engaging, open-and-go lessons with step-by-step, hands-on activities that explore scientific phenomena using common classroom items.

Learn How Discovery Education Can Help Prepare Your Students for Success

With Science Techbook, the students have a reading component but instead of having stagnant pictures and graphs, they have digital media that can come to life. If the students are struggling with vocabulary, they can click that vocabulary in the passage, and it will show a video explaining that academic language. That's a benefit of having Techbook!

L'Tunya Bernard Elementary Science Supervisor, Texas