50 Ways to Integrate Discovery Education
1 MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS
Embed video segments in PowerPoint presentations to make your
lessons come alive.
2 SUPPORTING RESOURCE
Watch full-length videos to support or provide context for a
classroom lesson.
3 JOURNALING
Use pre-made Writing Prompts or create your own to give students
practice crafting persuasive, narrative or descriptive writing passages.
4 READING SUPPORT
Use the Closed Captioning feature to assist struggling readers.
Let them read along as the narration and captioning provide valuable
visual-audio connections.
5 CURRENT EVENTS
Students can use articles and videos to research background
information about events in today’s news and present a mini-report to the
class.
6 TODAY IS YOUR BIRTHDAY
Use the Calendar feature to highlight historic events that
happened on students’ birthdays.
7 MORNING WORK
Minimize downtime: play a video segment for students to watch and
respond to in their journals while you take
attendance.
8 BUILD INTEREST
Show a video segment to inspire students at the beginning of a
project or lesson.
9 KWL CHARTS
View video segments to help complete KWL charts and reinforce key
concepts.
10 GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
Integrate images and video segments with Inspiration graphic organizer software to help students make visual connections to
concepts.
11 TEACHABLE MOMENTS
Show video segments to capitalize on impromptu learning
opportunities.
12 ESL CAREER NIGHT
Build your classroom community by showing support for your
students and their families. Invite them to career night and watch segments
from the Careers For the 21st Century Video
Library®.
13 SCAVENGER HUNT
Challenge students to answer essential questions in a game.
(Hint: they find the answers by viewing video
segments.)
14 ENCYCLOPEDIA
Collect a series of videos in My Content to use as a “video
library.” Let students view the segments to research questions posed in
class.
15 ALL ABOUT ME
Students create a personal video library of five segments that
highlight their interests and personality. Each week one student presents a
library to the class and explains why the segments are
relevant.
16 PRIMARY SOURCES
Use historic images, video segments and speeches as primary
source material.
17 MEDIATION
Show health and guidance video segments to provide a meaningful
context for discussions about respect, bullying and
behavior.
18 CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
Set the course for the rest of the year. Use Discovery Education
streaming videos to support your lessons on teamwork, cooperation, and conflict
resolution.
19 SET THE STAGE FOR THE WEEK
AHEAD
At the beginning of the week, show students a brief montage of
video segments and images from topics you’ll be covering. Use brief segments
from the middle of videos to create a sense of
anticipation.
20 VOCABULARY SUPPORT
Challenge students to find the definition of vocabulary terms by
viewing assigned video segments.
21 CLASSROOM TRAVEL
AGENTS
Have students use images and clip art to add visual impact to
travel brochures they write and design.
22 CROSS-CURRICULAR
REINFORCEMENT
Create interdisciplinary units by watching historical video
segments to provide background for literature
assignments.
23 HANDS-ON MATH
Show math video segments to reinforce handson activities with
manipulatives.
24 RAINY-DAY LESSONS
Create a set of “rainy day” video lessons for use during indoor
recess.
25 EXTRA CREDIT
Students can earn extra credit by completing supplemental quizzes
you create using Quiz Builder.
26 ANIMAL PLANET
Have students write and record their own original narration that
describes an animal video segment.
27 BOOK CLUB
Use Discovery Education streaming’s Great Books series to add new
dimension to assigned reading.
28 BEAUTIFUL BULLETIN
BOARDS
Use images and clip art to create dynamic bulletin board
displays.
29 DISCUSSION GUIDES
Supplement existing lesson plans with discussion guide materials
and blackline masters.
30 HOLIDAY LESSONS
Use the Holiday Fun Facts series to enhance holiday lessons and
activities.
31 SIGN LANGUAGE ALPHABET
LINE
Print sign language clip art to create a unique alphabet line
above your desk or whiteboard.
32 MAKE-UP WORK
Ensure that no students miss a lesson by assigning video segments
to be viewed at home.
33 PARENT NIGHT
Preview upcoming school year lessons and activities by showing
brief video segments to parents at back-to-school
nights.
34 MINI-MOVIES
Create your own custom, mini-movies by combining segments from
editable videos.
35 LEARNING STATIONS
Use the Assignment Builder to create online activities so
students can complete specific lessons on their own or in small
groups.
36 MULTIMEDIA NEWSPAPER
Assign a different beat to students each week. Have them report
their stories by creating multimedia presentations with publishing software,
video segments and images.
37 DAILY NEWS BROADCASTS
Schools with student-run closed-circuit TV stations can use brief
video segments as daily “factoids” on the morning news broadcast. Incorporate
the factoids into your morning class
meeting.
38 PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
Use a “Teaching Practices” video segment as an activator at the
beginning of an in-service day or staff meeting to stimulate
conversation.
39 VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS
Schedule a regular “lunch and learn” club, where students can eat
lunch while they watch a video about another place in the
world.
40 SCIENCE PROJECTS
Have students develop hypotheses based on experiments they view
in science videos. Conduct the experiments in the classroom and compare
results.
41 THE GREAT DEBATE
Give student teams a topic and challenge them to defend their
arguments by using video segments as research
evidence.
42 GET MOVING
Reinforce the importance of nutrition and fitness by showing
physical education video segments in the cafeteria during lunch or indoor
recess.
43 TIMELINES
Create a timeline of historic events by embedding video segments
into Inspiration or PowerPoint.
44 FILM FESTIVAL
Have students produce their own videos by using editable video
segments and adding voiceovers. Let students view their classmates’creations and
have the filmmakers answer questions from the
audience.
45 GEOGRAPHY GAME
Show video segments about various geographical locations and
challenge students to guess the specific details based on their knowledge of
geography.
46 FLIERS AND BACKBACK
NOTES
Choose from thousands of clip art images to liven up your
announcements and notes home to
parents.
47 MINI-UNITS
Use the weekly Thematic Focus to access materials to facilitate a
short lesson about a subject relevant to your
curriculum.
48 GAME SHOW TEST QUIZ
REVIEW
Add another medium to the frequently-used quiz show format by
making video segments the basis for quiz
questions.
49 FREEZE FRAME
Pause video segments for deeper investigation or discussion of
details and concepts.
50 CULTURE CLUB
Have student groups research an area of the world and create a
presentation of video segments that highlight the people, economy and
traditions.
Embed video segments in PowerPoint presentations to make your
lessons come alive.
2 SUPPORTING RESOURCE
Watch full-length videos to support or provide context for a
classroom lesson.
3 JOURNALING
Use pre-made Writing Prompts or create your own to give students
practice crafting persuasive, narrative or descriptive writing passages.
4 READING SUPPORT
Use the Closed Captioning feature to assist struggling readers.
Let them read along as the narration and captioning provide valuable
visual-audio connections.
5 CURRENT EVENTS
Students can use articles and videos to research background
information about events in today’s news and present a mini-report to the
class.
6 TODAY IS YOUR BIRTHDAY
Use the Calendar feature to highlight historic events that
happened on students’ birthdays.
7 MORNING WORK
Minimize downtime: play a video segment for students to watch and
respond to in their journals while you take
attendance.
8 BUILD INTEREST
Show a video segment to inspire students at the beginning of a
project or lesson.
9 KWL CHARTS
View video segments to help complete KWL charts and reinforce key
concepts.
10 GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS
Integrate images and video segments with Inspiration graphic organizer software to help students make visual connections to
concepts.
11 TEACHABLE MOMENTS
Show video segments to capitalize on impromptu learning
opportunities.
12 ESL CAREER NIGHT
Build your classroom community by showing support for your
students and their families. Invite them to career night and watch segments
from the Careers For the 21st Century Video
Library®.
13 SCAVENGER HUNT
Challenge students to answer essential questions in a game.
(Hint: they find the answers by viewing video
segments.)
14 ENCYCLOPEDIA
Collect a series of videos in My Content to use as a “video
library.” Let students view the segments to research questions posed in
class.
15 ALL ABOUT ME
Students create a personal video library of five segments that
highlight their interests and personality. Each week one student presents a
library to the class and explains why the segments are
relevant.
16 PRIMARY SOURCES
Use historic images, video segments and speeches as primary
source material.
17 MEDIATION
Show health and guidance video segments to provide a meaningful
context for discussions about respect, bullying and
behavior.
18 CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
Set the course for the rest of the year. Use Discovery Education
streaming videos to support your lessons on teamwork, cooperation, and conflict
resolution.
19 SET THE STAGE FOR THE WEEK
AHEAD
At the beginning of the week, show students a brief montage of
video segments and images from topics you’ll be covering. Use brief segments
from the middle of videos to create a sense of
anticipation.
20 VOCABULARY SUPPORT
Challenge students to find the definition of vocabulary terms by
viewing assigned video segments.
21 CLASSROOM TRAVEL
AGENTS
Have students use images and clip art to add visual impact to
travel brochures they write and design.
22 CROSS-CURRICULAR
REINFORCEMENT
Create interdisciplinary units by watching historical video
segments to provide background for literature
assignments.
23 HANDS-ON MATH
Show math video segments to reinforce handson activities with
manipulatives.
24 RAINY-DAY LESSONS
Create a set of “rainy day” video lessons for use during indoor
recess.
25 EXTRA CREDIT
Students can earn extra credit by completing supplemental quizzes
you create using Quiz Builder.
26 ANIMAL PLANET
Have students write and record their own original narration that
describes an animal video segment.
27 BOOK CLUB
Use Discovery Education streaming’s Great Books series to add new
dimension to assigned reading.
28 BEAUTIFUL BULLETIN
BOARDS
Use images and clip art to create dynamic bulletin board
displays.
29 DISCUSSION GUIDES
Supplement existing lesson plans with discussion guide materials
and blackline masters.
30 HOLIDAY LESSONS
Use the Holiday Fun Facts series to enhance holiday lessons and
activities.
31 SIGN LANGUAGE ALPHABET
LINE
Print sign language clip art to create a unique alphabet line
above your desk or whiteboard.
32 MAKE-UP WORK
Ensure that no students miss a lesson by assigning video segments
to be viewed at home.
33 PARENT NIGHT
Preview upcoming school year lessons and activities by showing
brief video segments to parents at back-to-school
nights.
34 MINI-MOVIES
Create your own custom, mini-movies by combining segments from
editable videos.
35 LEARNING STATIONS
Use the Assignment Builder to create online activities so
students can complete specific lessons on their own or in small
groups.
36 MULTIMEDIA NEWSPAPER
Assign a different beat to students each week. Have them report
their stories by creating multimedia presentations with publishing software,
video segments and images.
37 DAILY NEWS BROADCASTS
Schools with student-run closed-circuit TV stations can use brief
video segments as daily “factoids” on the morning news broadcast. Incorporate
the factoids into your morning class
meeting.
38 PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
Use a “Teaching Practices” video segment as an activator at the
beginning of an in-service day or staff meeting to stimulate
conversation.
39 VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS
Schedule a regular “lunch and learn” club, where students can eat
lunch while they watch a video about another place in the
world.
40 SCIENCE PROJECTS
Have students develop hypotheses based on experiments they view
in science videos. Conduct the experiments in the classroom and compare
results.
41 THE GREAT DEBATE
Give student teams a topic and challenge them to defend their
arguments by using video segments as research
evidence.
42 GET MOVING
Reinforce the importance of nutrition and fitness by showing
physical education video segments in the cafeteria during lunch or indoor
recess.
43 TIMELINES
Create a timeline of historic events by embedding video segments
into Inspiration or PowerPoint.
44 FILM FESTIVAL
Have students produce their own videos by using editable video
segments and adding voiceovers. Let students view their classmates’creations and
have the filmmakers answer questions from the
audience.
45 GEOGRAPHY GAME
Show video segments about various geographical locations and
challenge students to guess the specific details based on their knowledge of
geography.
46 FLIERS AND BACKBACK
NOTES
Choose from thousands of clip art images to liven up your
announcements and notes home to
parents.
47 MINI-UNITS
Use the weekly Thematic Focus to access materials to facilitate a
short lesson about a subject relevant to your
curriculum.
48 GAME SHOW TEST QUIZ
REVIEW
Add another medium to the frequently-used quiz show format by
making video segments the basis for quiz
questions.
49 FREEZE FRAME
Pause video segments for deeper investigation or discussion of
details and concepts.
50 CULTURE CLUB
Have student groups research an area of the world and create a
presentation of video segments that highlight the people, economy and
traditions.