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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.
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
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. Kits are organized and identifiable by Unit and Concept for easy implementation.
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.
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.
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.
Science Techbook is in authentically translated Spanish in both print and digital formats.
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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.
Do Science to Learn Science!
Investigate, Analyze, Observe and Evaluate like a scientist! Drive discoveries with hands-on activities and interactives that promote active investigation of phenomena. Multiple activity types within the lessons that give elementary students authentic, yet accessible, hands-on experiences with science content.
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.
Practical & Effective Instructional Strategies
Instructional supports that work! Find guidance on facilitating active student participation and engagement. From SOS strategies to graphic organizers to discussion prompts, these tools work together to aid educators on building a successful three-dimensional learning experience.
Learning to read and reading to learn
Speaking, listening, and writing opportunities combined with literacy-supported lessons at multiple Lexiles build elementary students’ scientific knowledge while developing and strengthening their literacy skills. Lessons include support for educators on teaching science and literacy together.
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.
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