Science Techbook provides exciting multimedia, virtual activities and hands-on labs with model lessons, STEM project starters, and standard-aligned assessments.
- Modular: Our newest 16 unit course designed for Middle School Science. Look for a unit called Rocket Sled to determine if this is your Science Techbook version.
- National: To determine if this is your version, click into a concept and look at the tabs. If you have an Intro and a Beyond tab, this is your version.
- California: This version is for our California Partners.
- Classic: To determine if this is your version, click into a concept and look at the tabs. If you have 5 tabs to align with the 5Es as well as a Model Lesson tab, this is your version.
Step 1: Log into Discovery Education
Navigate to discoveryeducation.com, discoveryeducation.ca (Canada), or your custom URL. Enter your username and password and Sign in. Not sure how to log in? Use the Search My School feature to log in.
Step 2: Access Science Techbook
Once you are logged in, Science Techbook can be accessed from the left menu or from the Student Homepage.
Alternatively, teachers can assign specific pages or resources from Science Techbook. These will appear at the top of the student’s homepage. Click on any of these assignments to go directly to that page or resource within Science Techbook.
Step 3: Navigate a Course
Science Techbook opens to the last course the students accessed. If necessary, they can change the course from the dropdown at the top.
Science Techbook is organized and described using the following vocabulary:
- Course: The overall course of study in an academic area.
- Unit: Each unit is organized around the research-backed phenomenon-based storyline learning model.
- Lessons & Activities: Each modular unit contains a series of lessons broken into activities that follow a logical development of student understanding of the Disciplinary Core Ideas in the unit.
On the course page, students have two views available to them:
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Science Techbook Overview, the default view, is a browse-enabled, visual grid.
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Table of Contents view provides a more linear, book-like navigation.
Throughout Science Techbook, there are opportunities to enter a Quick Code. These codes are indicated throughout the print student edition and are used to ease digital navigation and to seamlessly access corresponding digital materials. Select the Quick Code button and enter the code from the print materials to view the digital resources.
Step 4: Navigate Science Techbook
The course is divided into 16 digital units designed to support student sensemaking anchored in phenomena. Select a unit tile to open the unit in order to access the lessons and activities.
Units include lessons and begin with the anchor phenomena and end with the unit project. Each lesson will include several activities to support the investigative phenomena.
The final lesson of each unit includes a Unit Project, a summative assessment, which encourages students to design and generate solutions to real-world problems as well as conduct additional research.
Finally, the Beyond the Lesson section includes additional resources related to the unit for remediation, extension, or differentiation, depending on the needs of your student. It includes videos, activities, explorations, interactives, and more. Additional reading passages to support literacy in the classroom are included in the Beyond section as well to support the development of vocabulary and knowledge throughout the unit.
Step 5: Explore Science Techbook Tools
With Core Interactive Text, Science Techbook text can be read aloud, highlighted, or annotated with sticky notes. Select any text in and a reader tool will appear.
Select Speak Text to have the text read aloud. To adjust speed, volume, or to have words highlighted as they are spoken, open Settings.
Select the text and then choose Highlight to highlight words or phrases in selected colors. Choose Take Notes to highlight the words and create open-text notes about the words or phrases. Highlights and Notes are specific to each user and will only clear if deleted. To view notes associated with highlighted text, select the highlighted text and choose View Notes, or choose Notebook from the toolbar to see notes organized by concept, unit, and course.
Key academic terms in Science Techbook are linked to the Glossary. The Glossary can also be launched anytime from the toolbar.
Each term includes an animation that helps describe the term, details that include a definition and key context sentences for the term, a video segment discussing the term, and images or diagrams.
Definitions and key context statements are provided in both English and Spanish. Interactive Glossary terms are embedded throughout the Science Techbook or they also can be found through the general keyword search.
The Science Techbook Glossary also includes the Immersive Reader functionality. Click the icon to open Immersive Reader which opens up many accessibility options, such as:
- Read aloud text
- Access a picture dictionary for words
- Translate text to over 60 languages
- Change the size, style, and color of the text
- Use a line focus tool while reading
- Highlight the grammar throughout the text
Learn more about Immersive Reader.
The toolbar is located on the right side of the screen.
Here, students can access:
Language - choose between English or Spanish
Resources -
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Concept Dashboard - access formative assessment data for the concept
-
Glossary - access key academic vocabulary found within the concept with a definition, key context sentences for the term, images or diagrams, an animation that helps describe the term, and a video segment discussing the term.
-
My Notebook - highlight important concepts or vocabulary, then the interactive text automatically adds to the interactive notebook. Add new or additional notes, and the notebook saves and organizes it by course, unit, and concept.
Actions - share this concept with another student or add this concept to My Content or QuickList for easy access later
Print Options - get a printer-friendly version of the page for printing or saving as PDF for offline access. Choose to print the page, all pages within the tab, or all tabs within the concept.
Tools - various tools are available to students to support learning in Techbook. These tools are optimized by grade level to support student learning across different skill levels. All students have access to the whiteboard and calculator. Older students will also have access to the graphing calculator, scientific calculator, and unit converter.
Step 6: Explore Resources & Answer Questions
In addition to the Core Interactive Text, students will also be able to engage with other types of resources - including videos, images, text passages, and interactives. Students can play the videos and click around the interactives from within Science Techbook to support deeper learning of the concept.
Additionally, students will come across Technology-Enhanced Items. These are prompts to check for student understanding. Some may ask the student to type an answer in the box while others may include matching, ordering, etc. Students can save their progress on these items, however, in order for your teachers to see your answers, you must click Submit. Students can also attach files to the open-ended items, allowing them to submit a drawing or file created in another program.
Step 7: View Your Progress
The Results icon in the toolbar will launch the Concept Dashboard. This gives the students the opportunity to track their progress in a concept and see their results.
Students can switch between the tabs of the concept in the dropdown at the top. They can click on any score to look at the details - whether they want to see how they answered or how the teacher graded it (if it wasn’t auto-scored).
Step 1: Log into Discovery Education
Navigate to discoveryeducation.com, discoveryeducation.ca (Canada), or your custom URL. Enter your username and password and Sign in. Not sure how to log in? Use the Search My School feature to log in.
Step 2: Access Science Techbook
Once you are logged in, Science Techbook can be accessed from the left menu or from the Student Homepage.
Alternatively, teachers can assign specific pages or resources from Science Techbook. These will appear at the top of the student’s homepage. Click on any of these assignments to go directly to that page or resource within Science Techbook.
Step 3: Navigate a Course
Science Techbook opens to the last course the students accessed. If necessary, they can change the course from the dropdown at the top.
Science Techbook is organized and described using the following vocabulary:
-
Course: overall course of study in an academic area
-
Unit: thematic groupings of learning concepts
-
Concept: individual topics of study
On the course page, students have two views available to them:
-
Science Techbook Overview, the default view, is a browse-enabled, visual grid.
-
Table of Contents view provides a more linear, book-like navigation.
Step 4: Navigate Science Techbook
Students can navigate to the Unit page by clicking View Unit to see an overview of the concepts in this unit as well as any projects or unit openers (this varies from concept to concept).
Once a student navigates into a concept, they will see that the Science Techbook is written based on the 5E Model. Recognizing the need to organize instruction into manageable segments for elementary students, Science Techbook in Grades K-5 condense the 5E Model into three segments: Wonder, Learn, Share.
In the Engage (Wonder) stage of inquiry learning, students first encounter and identify an instructional task. Here they make connections between past and present learning experiences, lay the organizational groundwork for the activities ahead, and stimulate their involvement in the anticipation of these activities.
The Explore (Learn) stage provides students the opportunity to get directly involved with phenomena and materials. Explore provides resources to help students test predictions and hypotheses and record observations and ideas. Explore also contains interactive activities that check for understanding and provides opportunities to apply what they have learned.
In the Explain (Share) stage, students begin to put the abstract information that they have been gathering into a more concrete, communicable form. Here, formal definitions, explanations, and labels are associated with the knowledge that the learner has gained through the Engage and Explore activities.
Elaborate (Share) activities encourage learners to expand on the concepts learned, make connections to other related concepts, and apply their understandings to the world around them. Elaborate provides opportunities for critical thinking and exploration while connecting STEM skills to real world problems.
Evaluation (Share) should be an ongoing process that occurs throughout a lesson, providing for self assessment as well as formal assessment as the learning occurs.
Step 5: Explore Science Techbook Tools
With Core Interactive Text, Science Techbook text can be read aloud, highlighted, or annotated with sticky notes. Select any text in and a reader tool will appear.
Select Speak Text to have the text read aloud. To adjust speed, volume, or to have words highlighted as they are spoken, open Settings.
Select the text and then choose Highlight to highlight words or phrases in selected colors. Choose Take Notes to highlight the words and create open-text notes about the words or phrases. Highlights and Notes are specific to each user and will only clear if deleted. To view notes associated with highlighted text, select the highlighted text and choose View Notes, or choose Notebook from the toolbar to see notes organized by concept, unit, and course.
Key academic terms in Science Techbook are linked to the Glossary. The Glossary can also be launched anytime from the toolbar.
Each term includes an animation that helps describe the term, details that include a definition and key context sentences for the term, a video segment discussing the term, and images or diagrams.
Definitions and key context statements are provided in both English and Spanish. Interactive Glossary terms are embedded throughout the Science Techbook or they also can be found through the general keyword search.
The toolbar is located on the right side of the screen.
Here, students can access:
Language - choose between English or Spanish
Resources -
-
Concept Dashboard - access formative assessment data for the concept
-
Glossary - access key academic vocabulary found within the concept with a definition, key context sentences for the term, images or diagrams, an animation that helps describe the term, and a video segment discussing the term.
-
My Notebook - highlight important concepts or vocabulary, then the interactive text automatically adds to the interactive notebook. Add new or additional notes, and the notebook saves and organizes it by course, unit, and concept.
Actions - share this concept with another student or add this concept to My Content or QuickList for easy access later
Print Options - get a printer-friendly version of the page for printing or saving as PDF for offline access. Choose to print the page, all pages within the tab, or all tabs within the concept.
Tools - various tools are available to students to support learning in Techbook. These tools are optimized by grade level to support student learning across different skill levels. All students have access to the whiteboard and calculator. Older students will also have access to the graphing calculator, scientific calculator, and unit converter.
Step 6: Explore Resources & Answer Questions
In addition to the Core Interactive Text, students will also be able to engage with other types of resources - including videos, images, text passages, and interactives. Students can play the videos and click around the interactives from within Science Techbook to support deeper learning of the concept.
Additionally, students will come across Technology-Enhanced Items. These are prompts to check for student understanding. Some may ask the student to type an answer in the box while others may include matching, ordering, etc. Students can save their progress on these items, however, in order for your teachers to see your answers, you must click Submit. Students can also attach files to the open-ended items, allowing them to submit a drawing or file created in another program.
Step 7: View Your Progress
The Results icon in the toolbar will launch the Concept Dashboard. This gives the students the opportunity to track their progress in a concept and see their results.
Students can switch between the tabs of the concept in the dropdown at the top. They can click on any score to look at the details - whether they want to see how they answered or how the teacher graded it (if it wasn’t auto-scored).
Step 1: Log into Discovery Education
Navigate to discoveryeducation.com, discoveryeducation.ca (Canada), or your custom URL. Enter your username and password and Sign in. Not sure how to log in? Use the Search My School feature to log in.
Step 2: Access Science Techbook
Once you are logged in, Science Techbook can be accessed from the left menu or from the Student Homepage.
Alternatively, teachers can assign specific pages or resources from Science Techbook. These will appear at the top of the student’s homepage. Click on any of these assignments to go directly to that page or resource within Science Techbook.
Step 3: Navigate a Course
Science Techbook opens to the last course the students accessed. If necessary, they can change the course from the dropdown at the top.
Science Techbook is organized and described using the following vocabulary:
-
Course: overall course of study in an academic area
-
Unit: thematic groupings of learning concepts
-
Concept: individual topics of study
On the course page, students have two views available to them:
-
Science Techbook Overview, the default view, is a browse-enabled, visual grid.
-
Table of Contents view provides a more linear, book-like navigation.
Step 4: Navigate Science Techbook
Students can navigate to the Unit page by clicking View Unit to see an overview of the concepts in this unit as well as any projects or unit openers (this varies from concept to concept).
Once a student navigates into a concept, they will see that the Science Techbook is written based on the 5E Model. Recognizing the need to organize instruction into manageable segments for elementary students, Science Techbook in Grades K-5 condense the 5E Model into three segments: Wonder, Learn, Share.
In the Engage (Wonder) stage of inquiry learning, students first encounter and identify an instructional task. Here they make connections between past and present learning experiences, lay the organizational groundwork for the activities ahead, and stimulate their involvement in the anticipation of these activities.
The Explore (Learn) stage provides students the opportunity to get directly involved with phenomena and materials. Explore provides resources to help students test predictions and hypotheses and record observations and ideas. Explore also contains interactive activities that check for understanding and provides opportunities to apply what they have learned.
In the Explain (Share) stage, students begin to put the abstract information that they have been gathering into a more concrete, communicable form. Here, formal definitions, explanations, and labels are associated with the knowledge that the learner has gained through the Engage and Explore activities.
Elaborate (Share) activities encourage learners to expand on the concepts learned, make connections to other related concepts, and apply their understandings to the world around them. Elaborate provides opportunities for critical thinking and exploration while connecting STEM skills to real world problems.
Evaluation (Share) should be an ongoing process that occurs throughout a lesson, providing for self assessment as well as formal assessment as the learning occurs.
Step 5: Explore Science Techbook Tools
With Core Interactive Text, Science Techbook text can be read aloud, highlighted, or annotated with sticky notes. Select any text in and a reader tool will appear.
Select Speak Text to have the text read aloud. To adjust speed, volume, or to have words highlighted as they are spoken, open Settings.
Select the text and then choose Highlight to highlight words or phrases in selected colors. Choose Take Notes to highlight the words and create open-text notes about the words or phrases. Highlights and Notes are specific to each user and will only clear if deleted. To view notes associated with highlighted text, select the highlighted text and choose View Notes, or choose Notebook from the toolbar to see notes organized by concept, unit, and course.
Key academic terms in Science Techbook are linked to the Glossary. The Glossary can also be launched anytime from the toolbar.
Each term includes an animation that helps describe the term, details that include a definition and key context sentences for the term, a video segment discussing the term, and images or diagrams.
Definitions and key context statements are provided in both English and Spanish. Interactive Glossary terms are embedded throughout the Science Techbook or they also can be found through the general keyword search.
The toolbar is located on the right side of the screen.
Here, students can access:
Language - choose between English or Spanish
Resources -
-
Concept Dashboard - access formative assessment data for the concept
-
Glossary - access key academic vocabulary found within the concept with a definition, key context sentences for the term, images or diagrams, an animation that helps describe the term, and a video segment discussing the term.
-
My Notebook - highlight important concepts or vocabulary, then the interactive text automatically adds to the interactive notebook. Add new or additional notes, and the notebook saves and organizes it by course, unit, and concept.
Actions - share this concept with another student or add this concept to My Content or QuickList for easy access later
Print Options - get a printer-friendly version of the page for printing or saving as PDF for offline access. Choose to print the page, all pages within the tab, or all tabs within the concept.
Tools - various tools are available to students to support learning in Techbook. These tools are optimized by grade level to support student learning across different skill levels. All students have access to the whiteboard and calculator. Older students will also have access to the graphing calculator, scientific calculator, and unit converter.
Step 6: Explore Resources & Answer Questions
In addition to the Core Interactive Text, students will also be able to engage with other types of resources - including videos, images, text passages, and interactives. Students can play the videos and click around the interactives from within Science Techbook to support deeper learning of the concept.
Additionally, students will come across Technology-Enhanced Items. These are prompts to check for student understanding. Some may ask the student to type an answer in the box while others may include matching, ordering, etc. Students can save their progress on these items, however, in order for your teachers to see your answers, you must click Submit. Students can also attach files to the open-ended items, allowing them to submit a drawing or file created in another program.
Step 7: View Your Progress
The Results icon in the toolbar will launch the Concept Dashboard. This gives the students the opportunity to track their progress in a concept and see their results.
Students can switch between the tabs of the concept in the dropdown at the top. They can click on any score to look at the details - whether they want to see how they answered or how the teacher graded it (if it wasn’t auto-scored).
Step 1: Log into Discovery Education
Navigate to discoveryeducation.com, discoveryeducation.ca (Canada), or your custom URL. Enter your username and password and Sign in. Not sure how to log in? Use the Search My School feature to log in.
Step 2: Access Science Techbook
Once you are logged in, Science Techbook can be accessed from the left menu or from the Student Homepage.
Alternatively, teachers can assign specific pages or resources from Science Techbook. These will appear at the top of the student’s homepage. Click on any of these assignments to go directly to that page or resource within Science Techbook.
Step 3: Navigate a Course
Science Techbook opens to the last course the students accessed. If necessary, they can change the course from the dropdown at the top.
Science Techbook is organized and described using the following vocabulary:
-
Course: overall course of study in an academic area
-
Unit: thematic groupings of learning concepts
-
Concept: individual topics of study
On the course page, students have two views available to them:
-
Science Techbook Overview, the default view, is a browse-enabled, visual grid.
-
Table of Contents view provides a more linear, book-like navigation.
Step 4: Navigate Science Techbook
Students can navigate to the Unit page by clicking View Unit to see an overview of the concepts in this unit as well as any projects or unit openers (this varies from concept to concept).
Once a student navigates into a concept, they will see that the Science Techbook is written based on the 5E Model.
In the Engage stage of inquiry learning, students first encounter and identify an instructional task. Here they make connections between past and present learning experiences, lay the organizational groundwork for the activities ahead, and stimulate their involvement in the anticipation of these activities.
The Explore stage provides students the opportunity to get directly involved with phenomena and materials. Explore provides resources to help students test predictions and hypotheses and record observations and ideas. Explore also contains interactive activities that check for understanding and provides opportunities to apply what they have learned.
In the Explain stage, students begin to put the abstract information that they have been gathering into a more concrete, communicable form. Here, formal definitions, explanations, and labels are associated with the knowledge that the learner has gained through the Engage and Explore activities.
Elaborate activities encourage learners to expand on the concepts learned, make connections to other related concepts, and apply their understandings to the world around them. Elaborate provides opportunities for critical thinking and exploration while connecting STEM skills to real world problems.
Evaluation should be an ongoing process that occurs throughout a lesson, providing for self assessment as well as formal assessment as the learning occurs.
Step 5: Explore Science Techbook Tools
With Core Interactive Text, Science Techbook text can be read aloud, highlighted, or annotated with sticky notes. Select any text in and a reader tool will appear.
Select Speak Text to have the text read aloud. To adjust speed, volume, or to have words highlighted as they are spoken, open Settings.
Select the text and then choose Highlight to highlight words or phrases in selected colors. Choose Take Notes to highlight the words and create open-text notes about the words or phrases. Highlights and Notes are specific to each user and will only clear if deleted. To view notes associated with highlighted text, select the highlighted text and choose View Notes, or choose Notebook from the toolbar to see notes organized by concept, unit, and course.
Key academic terms in Science Techbook are linked to the Glossary. The Glossary can also be launched anytime from the toolbar.
Each term includes an animation that helps describe the term, details that include a definition and key context sentences for the term, a video segment discussing the term, and images or diagrams.
Definitions and key context statements are provided in both English and Spanish. Interactive Glossary terms are embedded throughout the Science Techbook or they also can be found through the general keyword search.
The Science Techbook Glossary also includes the Immersive Reader functionality. Click the icon to open Immersive Reader which opens up many accessibility options, such as:
- Read aloud text
- Access a picture dictionary for words
- Translate text to over 60 languages
- Change the size, style, and color of the text
- Use a line focus tool while reading
- Highlight the grammar throughout the text
Learn more about Immersive Reader.
The toolbar is located on the right side of the screen.
Here, students can access:
Language - choose between English or Spanish
Resources -
-
Concept Dashboard - access formative assessment data for the concept
-
Glossary - access key academic vocabulary found within the concept with a definition, key context sentences for the term, images or diagrams, an animation that helps describe the term, and a video segment discussing the term.
-
My Notebook - highlight important concepts or vocabulary, then the interactive text automatically adds to the interactive notebook. Add new or additional notes, and the notebook saves and organizes it by course, unit, and concept.
Actions - share this concept with another student or add this concept to My Content or QuickList for easy access later
Print Options - get a printer-friendly version of the page for printing or saving as PDF for offline access. Choose to print the page, all pages within the tab, or all tabs within the concept.
Tools - various tools are available to students to support learning in Techbook. These tools are optimized by grade level to support student learning across different skill levels. All students have access to the whiteboard and calculator. Older students will also have access to the graphing calculator, scientific calculator, and unit converter.
Step 6: Explore Resources & Answer Questions
In addition to the Core Interactive Text, students will also be able to engage with other types of resources - including videos, images, text passages, and interactives. Students can play the videos and click around the interactives from within Science Techbook to support deeper learning of the concept.
Additionally, students will come across Technology-Enhanced Items. These are prompts to check for student understanding. Some may ask the student to type an answer in the box while others may include matching, ordering, etc. Students can save their progress on these items, however, in order for your teachers to see your answers, you must click Submit. Students can also attach files to the open-ended items, allowing them to submit a drawing or file created in another program.
Step 7: View Your Progress
The Results icon in the toolbar will launch the Concept Dashboard. This gives the students the opportunity to track their progress in a concept and see their results.
Students can switch between the tabs of the concept in the dropdown at the top. They can click on any score to look at the details - whether they want to see how they answered or how the teacher graded it (if it wasn’t auto-scored).