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Explore the most popular Discovery Education interactive Studio Boards and ready-to-use activities used by South Carolina educators! Our grab-and-go lessons can be used as background builders, remediation activities, and concept and skill reinforcement across subject areas. DE also have 500+ Studio Boards and ready-to-use activities available through the SCDOE Instruction Hub. As best practice, please preview the activity to be sure it works well with the curriculum and the learning goals.

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Virtual Field Trips

Science

Solar System

Students learn about the Solar System while practicing foundational math and language arts skills.

Physical Science Choice Board

Use this choice board for students to explore Physical Science topics.

The Moon

Learn about the moon while practicing ELA and Math skills.

Landforms

Students will learn how to define landforms and describe why they are important.

Properties and States of Matter

Students will learn how to define properties and states of matter and describe why they are important.

Force

Students will be able to define force and describe why it is important.

Forms of Energy

Students learn how to define forms of energy and describe why they are important.

Physical Science Choice Board

Use this choice board for students to explore Physical Science topics.

Seasons

Students will learn how to define the seasons and describe why they are important.

Friction

Students will learn how to define friction and describe why it is important.

Erosion

Students will learn how to define erosion and describe why it is important.

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Mathematics

Addition

Students will be able to add numbers up to 10 and practice solving number sentences while learning about flamingos.

Subtraction

Students subtract to 10 by learning subtraction words and practice solving number sentences while learning about penguins.

Math Words and Symbols

Students learn math words and symbols for addition and subtraction equations.

Birds and Math

Practice place value and counting by fives while learning about birds.

Rounding to the Nearest Ten and Hundred

Practice rounding to the nearest ten and hundred and learn about dogs.

Determining the Unknown Number

Practice determining the unknown number and learn about sharks.

Dogs and Math

Practice rounding to the nearest ten and hundred while learning about dogs.

Area

Practice area and learn about basketball.

Perimeter

Practice perimeter and learn about dogs.

Read, Write, and Compare Decimals

Practice reading, writing, and comparing decimals to thousandths then learn about dinosaurs.

Adding and Subtracting Fractions

Practice adding and subtracting fractions and learn about polar bears.

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English Language Arts

Sight Words

Students learn about sight words while investigating soil.

Consonants

Students learn about the alphabet and consonants while learning about monkeys.

Question Words

Students learn about question words while investigating light and color.

Main Idea

Students listen to a fictional story to practice main idea and then apply this skill to a nonfiction text about owls.

Plural Nouns

Students learn about regular and irregular plural nouns while investigating the solar system.

Regular and Irregular Verbs

Students learn about regular and irregular verbs while investigating animal adaptations.

Fact and Opinion

Students learn the difference between fact and opinion while investigating earthquakes.

Author's Purpose

Students explore author's purpose by writing a short composition in the form of a Six Word Story.

Writing a Narrative Story

Learn about volcanoes while identifying key ideas and details in order to write a narrative story.

Writing a Topic Sentence

Students learn how to write a topic sentence. Then they apply their learning to create topic sentences about watersheds.

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Virtual Field Trips

Polar Bears on the Tundra

Take a virtual field trip and learn about polar bears in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada.

Winning with STEM

Take a virtual field trip to learn how STEM professionals use practical problem-solving skills and outside-the-box thinking to develop sustainable solutions.

Farming to the Future

Take a virtual field trip to learn about sustainable nutrition and how we can all work together to create solutions that care for people, the planet, and our communities.

EA Sports Madden Football by the Numbers

Take a virtual field trip and learn about video game design at EA Sports Tiburon in Orlando, Florida.

Careers that Count with the NBA

Take a virtual field trip to learn about how math is used every day to improve the game of basketball.

The Future is Now

Take a virtual field trip to learn about community building and get a behind-the-scenes look at amazing innovations of architecture and engineering.

Generation Beyond: Mars Exploration

Take a virtual field trip and explore curious questions. Use this slideshow to learn about space exploration in Littleton, Colorado.

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Interactives

Spelling Bees

Build the biggest honeycomb hive by spelling the most words in the time allowed!

Coconut Vowels

Defend yourself from the falling coconuts using vowels!

Ducky Race Subtraction

Answer subtraction problems to swim around and cross the finish line first!

Space Multiplication

Chase friends and opponents around a planet in outer space using multiplication to boost your speed!

Word Frog

Feed your hungry frog flies by identifying the correct matching antonym!

Division Derby

Race friends and opponents in the Division Derby using division to power your pony's speed!

Snow Sprint Fractions

Solve multiplication problems with fractions to move around the track and cross the finish line!

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