DiscoveryEducation.com provides a vast amount of educational content that can be applied to any subject in any grade level. As a subscription based site, it allows the subscriber to do much more than share videos with the classroom: it has assignment builders, quiz centers, writing prompts, and also helps the educator to customize and personalize lesson plans. Streaming about 9,000 full length videos and 71,000 content specific clips that tie directly to state and national standards. With this many videos and clips, there must be a more exciting resource to help students remember (more importantly learn) for the SOL's. The website is "designed to encourage exploration, stimulate critical thinking and deepen understanding (of science)" by the "real life situations, through a variety of media, full length videos and segmented clips, virtual labs, integrated simulations, explorations, and reading passages." With the input of about 150 publishers, such as PBS and Scholastic, there is no question why they have been recognized by the Bessie Award for the Best Educational Software.
www.discoveryeducation.com
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