Cross-Curricular | Discovery Education

Immersion for Everyone: Achieving Differentiation in Immersive Experiences

Hannah McNaughton-Hussain — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 22:12:11 +0000

It’s easy to assume that immersive learning experiences might be too complicated to set up for every student in the room. With so many diverse abilities, learning styles, and access needs, it can feel impossible to make sure everyone is included.

But that’s a myth worth busting. Differentiation and immersion can go hand in hand – when done well, they actually strengthen each other.

From something as simple as dimming the lights during a dramatic read-aloud to creating hands-on, real-world challenges, immersion is about purposeful moments that can be adapted for all learners.

What Is Immersion, Really?

Immersion happens when students are fully engaged – cognitively, emotionally, and often physically – in a learning experience. You can achieve it through storytelling, sensory detail, interactivity, and opportunities for students to take ownership of their learning.

That could mean:

Changing the environment – turning off the lights while reading a suspenseful story, or adding background sounds that fit the scene.
Layering in interactivity – embedding questions or choices into a video so students influence the outcome.
Creating experiential moments – allowing students to do instead of just read or watch.

Experiential Learning for All

Experiential learning is a powerful way to achieve immersion. It shifts the student from passive receiver to active participant. Examples include:

Role-play real-world challenges – in a history lesson, students might represent different world leaders in a peace negotiation.
Simulate workplace problem-solving – in a STEM class, have teams design, test, and refine a solution to a fictional environmental crisis.
Field investigations without leaving the room – bring in artifacts, models, or even digital twins of real places so students can explore with hands-on curiosity.

The beauty of experiential learning is that it can be scaled to suit your class’s needs, resources, and learning goals. And with a little creativity, it can be differentiated so every learner finds a way to engage.

Five Tips for Creating Experiential Learning Opportunities

Making Immersion Accessible to Everyone

Every classroom has a mix of learning styles, abilities, and preferences. Immersive learning has the power to engage and inspire students who may never have actively participated in activities before. It’s not unheard of, for example, for a student with selective mutism to speak for the first time when role‑playing inside a Sandbox environment – such is the power of an immersive moment.

[The student] never ever talks to adults in school, and yet she was prepared to stand in front of the green wall and record this interview with another pupil...really quite remarkable.

Sandbox Educator

While it’s important not to expect these milestone moments from every student, we can open unexpected doors to participation and connection. Here are some simple ways to differentiate immersive experiences so no student is left out:

Offer multiple entry points – Immersive experiences don’t have to rely on one sense or mode of interaction. They can be just audio – like layering in sound effects to mimic an environment – or completely silent for deaf students, such as displaying a 3D artifact in AR. They can involve standing up and moving around, or no movement at all.
Allow choice in participation – Some students may prefer observing before jumping into role-play or movement-based activities. Give them alternative but equally valuable roles.
Adapt the physical experience – For students who can’t move around the room, bring the activity to their desk or use “table scale” experiences such as Sandbox AR.
Use layered complexity – Start with a simple version of the task, then add challenge layers for those who are ready.
Blend tech and no-tech options – Remember, not all students can or want to use certain immersive technologies (due to motion sickness, visual impairments, or accessibility limitations).

When Immersive Tech Isn’t the Right Fit

While AR, VR, and other emerging tools can be amazing engagement boosters, they aren’t the only route to immersion – and sometimes, they’re not the right choice. School budgets, device availability, physical disabilities, and even something as simple as motion sickness can limit access.

That’s why the principle of “pedagogy first, technology second” is so important. The core goal should always be the learning outcome, not the novelty of the tech. If you can achieve immersion through storytelling, sensory changes, or physical activity, that’s just as valid (and sometimes more effective).

For strategies on building purposeful immersive lessons with or without tech, read “Pedagogy First, Technology Second: Playing with Purpose.”

The Power of Physical Immersion

For some learners, especially those with ADHD or who thrive on kinesthetic input, physical immersive activities can unlock focus and understanding in a way that static tasks can’t. This could be as simple as:

Turning your room into a “museum” with stations students walk through.
Acting out a science process like the water cycle.
Using a scavenger hunt to review vocabulary or historical facts.

Research shows movement boosts engagement and retention, and immersive learning provides a perfect opportunity to incorporate it. For more on this, see “Get Students Moving – Why Physical Immersive Activities Boost Engagement and Learning.”

Bring Every Learner Into the Experience

Immersion is not about the flashiest tools. It’s about crafting experiences that feel real, relevant, and reachable for every learner in your class. By blending low-tech sensory shifts, experiential learning, differentiated entry points, and thoughtful integration of technology when appropriate, you can make every student part of the action.

When immersion is for everyone, the result isn’t just more engagement – it’s more accessibility, more inclusion, and more powerful learning moments that stick long after the lesson ends.

The post Immersion for Everyone: Achieving Differentiation in Immersive Experiences appeared first on Discovery Education.

Pedagogy First, Technology Second: Playing with Purpose

Hannah McNaughton-Hussain — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 22:07:25 +0000

In the ever-growing world of educational technology, it’s tempting to reach for the newest, flashiest tool to grab students’ attention. But the real magic doesn’t come from the technology itself – it comes from the way it’s used. Without a clear connection to learning goals and a real understanding of the principles of immersion, even the most dazzling tools risk becoming just another distraction.

Discovery Education’s primary principle of immersive learning is pedagogy first, technology second. Engagement is important, but purposeful engagement – grounded in curriculum, skills, and outcomes – is what truly transforms learning.

Immersion without the Price Tag

When people hear the term immersive learning, they often picture classrooms stocked with expensive VR headsets. While high-end hardware can be exciting, powerful immersive and experiential learning doesn’t require thousands of dollars of investment. What matters is creating moments that spark curiosity, ignite imagination, and build deeper understanding.

Take Discovery Education’s immersive tools:

Sandbox – A 3D creation space where students can build worlds, model ideas, and explore concepts at any scale.
TimePod Adventures – Bite-sized interactive journeys through time and space, blending AR storytelling with problem-solving challenges.
3D Virtual Field Trips – Browser-based explorations that transport students to unique locations, from ocean depths to historic landmarks.

All of these can be accessed with devices many classrooms already have, such as iPads, Chromebooks, or standard laptops.

The ‘Jelly in the Doughnut’

Think of the immersive moment – whether it’s stepping into an ancient city, exploring a science phenomenon in 3D, or manipulating a virtual ecosystem – as the jelly in the doughnut. It’s the sweet, memorable part that students will look forward to and look back on, but it’s only one piece of the whole and simply doesn’t hold up on its own.

The rest of the doughnut – the structure, substance, and nourishment – comes from what you do with that moment. That’s where pedagogy leads.

Every immersive experience from Discovery Education comes with robust supporting classroom activities designed to:

Draw out key concepts
Link directly to curriculum standards
Provide opportunities for reflection and application
Encourage collaboration and discussion

In other words, the immersive tool is the spark; the learning comes when teachers connect that spark to deeper exploration, skill-building, and assessment.

From Hook to Habit of Mind

Imagine your students exploring a virtual coral reef. For a moment, they’re surrounded by colorful fish, intricate corals, and shifting sunlight – an awe-inspiring scene. Without follow-up, that moment might fade as just “something cool we did in class.”

But with the right pedagogical framing, it becomes much more:

Science: Students investigate biodiversity, food chains, and the effects of climate change.
Math: They measure reef growth rates or calculate fish population changes.
ELA: They write persuasive speeches or informational texts about reef conservation.

The immersive moment is the hook which amplifies outcomes through increased knowledge absorption, contextual understanding, and retention; the lesson plan turns it into a habit of mind.

Practical Ways to Capture and Extend Learning in Sandbox

One of the most versatile examples is Sandbox, the free environment-building app from Discovery Education. This 3D creation space can be a powerful way for students to show what they’ve learned, not just tell it. Teachers can ask students to:

Recreate a historical event or location – e.g., building a World War II trench system to explain conditions on the front line.
Model a scientific process – e.g., demonstrating the way shadows move and change with the position of the sun in the sky.
Understand perspectives – e.g., exploring the thoughts and feelings experienced in a specific location.

To make the learning visible, students can record their Sandbox creations as videos, narrate their thinking, or take screenshots and annotate them.

For more ideas, see “Measuring Engagement: Tools to Capture Learning Evidence with Sandbox.” You’ll find practical strategies for using built-in features to document student work – turning engagement into assessable evidence.

Why ‘Playing with Purpose’ Matters

The best learning happens when students are active participants, not passive consumers. Immersive and experiential tools tap into curiosity, but purpose ensures that curiosity leads somewhere meaningful.

When we lead with pedagogy:

Technology becomes a vehicle, not the destination.
Engagement is sustained because it’s tied to a bigger question or challenge.
Students can make connections between their immersive experience and the wider world.

A Call to School Leaders

As school leaders, you set the tone for how technology is adopted in classrooms. Encourage your teams to:

Start with the learning goal. Ask: What do we want students to know, understand, or be able to do by the end?
Choose technology that serves that goal. Resist the urge to adopt tools solely for novelty.
Support professional learning. Give teachers time to explore, experiment, and plan how to connect immersive moments to curriculum standards.
Celebrate purposeful play. Immersive learning doesn’t have to be serious all the time – play and exploration can be deeply educational when guided by intentional design.

Immersive learning can be transformative – not because of the technology itself, but because of the way it’s woven into the learning journey.

So the next time you introduce a new digital experience into the classroom, remember: the technology is the jelly in the doughnut.

The post Pedagogy First, Technology Second: Playing with Purpose appeared first on Discovery Education.

Curriculum-Aligned Resources in Discovery Education Experience

David Bryan — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:04:51 +0000

Curriculum-Aligned Resources: Powerful Support for Student Progress

Emily is a third-grade teacher who’s passionate about her work. She loves seeing each student make progress on foundational skills throughout the school year, and she puts in extra time and effort to ensure that everyone can. While she likes the curriculum and resources provided by her school, sometimes she has to find and adjust additional resources to meet individual needs or change things up in her classroom.

Derek is a seventh-grade math teacher who enjoys using real-world problems to bring relevance to concepts discussed in his classroom and to show students the importance of math in life. Working from the district-adopted core curriculum, he has assembled a set of instructional resources that he can draw from, but he wants to incorporate current events and use new activities to prevent student boredom.

Though Emily and Derek have very different teaching responsibilities and challenges, they share a need for resources that can help them drive student learning more effectively. While they are willing to spend the time and effort to identify and modify more resources on their own, this may be difficult and stressful in light of their typically heavy workloads.

One way district leaders could address this is by offering high-quality curriculum-aligned resources to their teams. Let’s explore what we mean by this, why these resources matter, and what adoption mistakes districts should avoid.

What Are Curriculum-Aligned Resources?

Curriculum-aligned resources are resources like instructional materials, strategies, and supplemental tools for teachers or content students access directly, such as videos, interactives, or hands-on activities, that directly connect to learning objectives and outcomes in accordance with the adopted curriculum’s content and pedagogy. Teachers can use curriculum-aligned resources to enhance unit topics, review skills, or find instructional strategies to meet individual student needs—whatever it takes to support effective learning.

Key Factors in Positive Student Outcomes

Ultimately, all the work that educators put into each classroom, school, and district is designed to set students up for academic and career success. Recent studies and surveys reveal that the use of high-quality instructional materials (HQIM), accompanied by professional learning, is instrumental in boosting student achievement.

Standards alignment also plays a key role. EdReports’ State of the Market report says: “Teachers using aligned materials are more likely to implement high-impact instructional practices, such as engaging students in scientific models or justifying mathematical solutions. These practices promote critical thinking and deepen student engagement across subjects.” Plus, districts using aligned materials see less variance in teacher efficacy and are better able to support all of their students.

The best curriculum-aligned resources will include or support HQIM and align to state standards without requiring extra effort from teachers. This not only increases teacher satisfaction but also improves the quality of their teaching, leading to greater student performance gains.

Curriculum Alignment Is More Than Content

The content that curriculum-aligned resources provide may be a primary consideration when searching for and choosing them, but you need to determine whether a particular resource meets your expectations for learning. For example, the ISTE Standards* give educators and education leaders a framework for evaluating types of learning (creativity, collaboration, authentic problem solving, etc.) within digital tools that’s research based. And don’t forget interoperability: look for proof that curriculum-aligned resources will actually integrate with your other tools and systems, including your LMS and assessments.

*For over 20 years, the ISTE Standards have been used, studied, and updated to reflect the latest research-based best practices that define success in using technology to learn, teach, lead, and coach.

Curriculum-Aligned Resources Adoption Considerations

Curriculum‑aligned resources can become essential components of coherent, equitable instruction across the schools in your district. When you’ve adopted the right program, you can see the results in higher student achievement and teacher satisfaction. However, make sure you avoid these five adoption mistakes that can impede your success:

A tech‑first, curriculum‑later approach: This can lead to misalignment, require teachers to find workarounds, and limit the impact of the resources.
Minimal teacher voice involved: Teacher buy-in and fidelity could be significantly affected.
“One‑and‑done” professional development: Orientation does not support the same success as ongoing professional learning.
Ignoring interoperability: Hidden integration costs may be expensive, and data silos can interfere with a real understanding of student progress.
No plan to evaluate effectiveness: Without quantitative and qualitative measures of usage and efficacy, funding may be wasted on subscription renewal.

More Impact with Discovery Education Experience

Experience combines ready-to-teach lessons, activities, and engaging content with research-backed instructional strategies and user-friendly tools. In its Curriculum Aligned Resources section, teachers will find content directly aligned to popular K–8 literacy, math, and science curricula. Each curriculum has resources that are thoughtfully organized by grade level and unit, making it easy to find age-appropriate content to meet student learning needs.

Suggested resources vary depending on what point of the curriculum a teacher is in, but they often include a mix of instructor and student resources. Choices may include:

Ready-to-teach lessons
Reading passages
Videos
Activities
Interactives
Curated content channels
Research-based instructional strategies
And more!

Finding the perfect curriculum-aligned resources in Experience is faster than ever with Personalized Content Recommendations, so whether teachers can get right to extending content, building background knowledge, or reteaching. It also includes customizable assessments and connects to a variety of LMS’s.

Why not try our interactive demo today to explore Experience’s curriculum-aligned resources in more detail?

Take a Tour

The post Curriculum-Aligned Resources in Discovery Education Experience appeared first on Discovery Education.

Futures Fair and Career Fairs: Shaping Student Professional Success

DE Staff — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 20:29:45 +0000

From Curiosity to Career: How School Career Fairs Shape Student Futures

It’s so rewarding to see students make breakthroughs, whether it’s learning a new concept, developing proficiency across multiple standards, or finding a sense of direction for their life after they finish school. But that last example can often be a mystery for many students. Educators hear “I don’t know” a lot when they ask about career plans, even from high school students.

That kind of moment is why career fairs matter. For many students, especially those whose families or communities haven’t presented a wide range of professions, a career fair may be the first time they glimpse what’s possible. Hearing a powerful story, meeting someone with an impressive job, or just seeing someone who looks like them in a role they hadn’t considered can shift their perspective.

Let’s explore the benefits of career fairs in general and then look at what makes Discovery Education’s Futures Fair stand out.

Four Reasons That Career Fairs Matter

Exposure Expands Possibility: Students can’t aspire to what they don’t know exists. Career fairs give them the chance to discover careers far beyond the small circle of what they normally see.
Relevance Connects School to Life: Research shows that students who participate in career development activities are significantly more likely to believe school is useful to their future. When they hear directly from a professional how math, writing, or teamwork matters in their field, students discover real-world applications for their skills.
Role Models Make Careers Real: Meeting professionals in person (whether an architect, nurse, or designer) helps them picture themselves in those roles. Career fairs turn job titles into relatable people and stories.
Interpersonal Skills for Success: Career fairs aren’t just about jobs, they’re practice grounds for life skills. Students learn how to ask thoughtful questions, introduce themselves with confidence, and explore what interests them. These interactions build social capital and professional fluency long before a job interview.

What Is Futures Fair?

Discovery Education’s Futures Fair is an annual virtual career fair connecting classrooms across the U.S. with real-world professionals from companies involved in STEM, the arts, skilled trades, entrepreneurship, public service, and more—including Honda, LIV Golf, and Verizon. Educators and students tune in to discover how today’s learning connects to tomorrow’s opportunities. They can choose from elementary, middle school, and high school tracks, which offer a series of 25-minute virtual sessions that give students a firsthand look at the skills shaping the future.

Our overall goal is that we want to encourage early and often career exploration and giving students all sorts of experiences that allow them to understand what their skills are, what they’re interested in, [and] who the people are in the jobs that they could be meeting.

Amy Nakamoto, EVP of Marketing, Brand, and Corporate Partnerships at Discovery Education

What Was the 2025 Futures Fair Like?

The inaugural Futures Fair connected over 30,000 students in K–12 classrooms, virtually and in person, for a day of inspiring learning and career exploration. Some of the virtual sessions included:

Elementary Track (K–5)

“Bright Minds, Safe Futures: Exploring Smart Tech & Creative Problem-Solving!” from Norton’s Director of AI & Innovation Iskander Sanchez-Rola
“From Pipes to Sinks: The Plumbing Magic Behind Everyday Water!” from Home Depot’s Director Omni Retail Sales Casey Nix
“Fire Detectives: Solving Mysteries with Science” from The Hartford’s Forensic Engineer Ben Smith

Middle School Track (6–8)

“Medicine Meets Machines: Exploring the Future with a Tech-Savvy Doctor!” from Meta’s Director, Product Management John MacDonald
“From Cockpit to Cutting-Edge: A Journey into Aerospace Innovation” from Honeywell’s Distinguished Technical Fellow, Aerospace Technologies Thea Feyerelsen
“From Farm Fields to Lab Discoveries: A Scientist’s Journey to 3M!” from 3M’s Corporate Scientist Jeff Emslander

High School Track (9–12)

“Crash Science: How Engineers Design Cars to Keep You Safe!” from Honda’s Crash & Safety Test Engineer Paige Vernon, and Principal Automotive Crash Safety Engineer Susan Mostofizadeh
“Genes, Germs, and Discovery: A Biologist’s Mission to Make Science Make Sense!” by Illumina’s Senior Scientist Chris Beierschmitt
“Breaking the Mold: How Courage, Curiosity, and Steel Spark Lifelong Growth!” by Nucor’s Branch Manager Victoria Kirk

Explore Supporting Resources

A huge thank you to Discovery Education for including my students and me in such an inspiring experience. The Futures Fair was awesome. Moments like these remind me why I teach to empower students with voice, choice, and a vision for their future.

Daniel Jones, M.Ed. ABD

In-Person Futures Fair

This year’s experience was not limited to virtual. We approached our longstanding partner Prince Georges’ County Public Schools with the idea of transforming Gwynn Park High School into a real-life Futures Fair for the day. We brought corporate partners to the event, so more than 500 tenth and eleventh grade students got the chance to interact with professionals from companies like Capital Power, AES, Charles River, and The Swinerton Foundation. They also got to learn about community organizations such as PGCPS Parks & Rec and Atlantic Union Bank.

Education advocate and former engineer Brandon Okpalobi kicked the event off by inspiring students with a message to make the most of the opportunity to connect and explore. Then students participated in hands-on activities to develop the “4 Cs”:

“Pitch It” prompted kids to pitch a product idea in 30 seconds (Communication)
“Design a Logo” prompted them to design a logo for their dream brand (Creativity)
“Build It” challenged kids to build as high a structure as possible using pipe cleaners and tin foil (Collaboration)
“Reflex Test” asked them to consider what goes into making quick judgment calls (Critical Thinking)

The day concluded with a special, all-grades broadcast live from Churchill, Manitoba (the polar bear capital of the world). Renowned wildlife artist and former Disney animator Aaron Blaise explored how art can connect humans with wild animals, including polar bears.

All the students, educators, and professionals who joined the first Futures Fair made it successful far beyond our expectations, and now we can’t wait to do it again in 2026!

It’s very important to learn about [career options], so you can at least expand your information, [and] explore new things that you want to do in life.

Gwynn Park High School Student

How to Continue Career Exploration in Your School or District

Career exploration remains important beyond time spent holding career fairs. According to research we released last year, over two-thirds of students (67%) feel that their education is not evolving to meet workplace needs. And three out of four adults agree. However, we’re ready to help you change this for good:

Experience is the only teaching and learning solution that makes it easy to connect career exploration to curriculum.
Career Connect is built into Experience, making it safe and simple to bring industry professionals directly into classrooms.
Careers Hub lets educators access curated resources aligned to 14 career clusters, complete with profiles, virtual field trips, and immersive tools.

You’ll find even more resources through our partnership with STEM Careers Coalition.

Demo Experience Today!

DE Staff

David has spent over 10 years in various roles with companies seeking to improve lives through effective teaching and learning. He values the empowering nature of adding knowledge and strengthening understanding, whether personal or professional.

The post Futures Fair and Career Fairs: Shaping Student Professional Success appeared first on Discovery Education.

#CelebrateWithDE: National STEM Day

DE Staff — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 22:26:06 +0000

Do your students ever imagine themselves as a pilot, video game designer, environmentalist, or surgeon? STEM professionals work in nearly all industries and for a variety of organizations. In their everyday lives, people with STEM backgrounds engage in investigative and diagnostic experiences to seek solutions to real-world problems and enhance technological innovations—sharing their exciting findings and successes with the world. It’s no wonder that today’s students are easily captivated by the rich variety of STEM career paths they can take.

Step into the World of STEM

National STEM Day is a great chance to start your STEM journey! The Siemens STEM Day Channel offers a variety of tools and resources that will help you reinvent your STEM curriculum. You’ll find over 175+ hands-on activities spanning grades K-12 and a teacher support center with educator activities!

Exploring STEM topics can be fun and offer students a brain break to practice thinking outside the box. The N*GEN video series teaches younger students about a variety of STEM topics. Learn about the wetlands, robots, food, bees, and more through these engaging videos!

To excite older students about STEM, dig into the Dig into Mining Channel! Created in partnership between Freeport-McMoRan and Discovery Education, this interactive educational program for students grades 6-12 uncovers the use of metals such as copper in our everyday life and provides students a deeper understanding of today’s hard rock mining industry with dynamic resources. A new STEM learning game, HAUL! Interactive, lets students take the wheel of a 2-story high mining truck to practice mathematics and explanation skills.

Connect the Classroom to the Real World

A great part of STEM learning is the potential for connections to the real world. Make your lessons relevant by helping students connect their in-class learning to out-of-class challenges and topics! Discovery Education has resources to help explore real-world topics that could have a direct impact on your community!

Futurelab+ connects students and teachers from all communities to the breadth of education and career pathways across biotechnology. With these ready-to-use resources, students can discover the possibilities of biotech— from molecule to medicine!
With videos that highlight topics like forces and motion, stability and instability, and interactions between different materials, the Innovation at Play Channel helps students embrace STEM problem-solving in any learning environment through standards-aligned interactive digital resources centered around creativity and collaboration.

More Engaging Resources for Exciting STEM Activities

Engineering Dreams

ASME and Discovery Education are partnering to engage K-12 students nationwide in the biggest challenges of today while helping them unlock success tomorrow using the universal key of Engineering. Join us as we teach students to turn passion into an in-demand career in Engineering with standards-aligned resources designed for ALL learners and communities.

American Petroleum Institute

Explore the American Petroleum Institute, the only national trade association representing all facets of the natural gas and oil industry, with career profiles and instructional activities. API’s more than 600 members include large integrated companies, as well as exploration and production, refining, marketing, pipeline, and marine businesses, and service and supply firms.

STEM Careers Coalition

Did you know November is Career Development Month? Celebrate National STEM Day and Career Development Month with the STEM Careers Coalition! The STEM Careers Coalition's mission is to empower educators to teach STEM effectively in the classroom, focusing on equity and access to quality education, and building the next generation of solution-seekers at no cost to schools.

Take a Virtual Field Trip

Virtual Field Trips can create an exciting learning experience to highlight real-world STEM professionals in action! No need to schedule a bus to pick your students up for a National STEM Day field trip on November 8—Discovery Education helps bring the field trip to your classroom!

Step into the world of Extended Reality (XR) where innovation bridges our physical and digital worlds! Join experts at Verizon Innovation Labs to discover how XR is more than gaming. XR is saving lives, revolutionizing education, and impacting industries as well as how cyber experts are ensuring responsible technology development to prepare for this new digital landscape.

With the STEM Forward Channel, students can join Katie Ledecky, 3-time Olympian, 7-time Olympic Gold Medalist swimmer, proud STEM advocate and Team Panasonic athlete, for an immersive deep dive into game-changing tech that’s creating better ways forward for all people. The Winning with STEM Virtual Field Trip transports students to five Panasonic Innovation Centers around North America for a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the everyday inspiration Panasonic’s team uses to power groundbreaking new ideas that improve people’s lives and make the world a better place.

The Illumina Foundation and Discovery Education partnered to create DNA Decoded to inspire middle and high school teachers to unlock the power of genomics and impact the future of their students. The Virtual Field Trip Genomics: Decoding the Language of Life transports students to the Illumina labs in San Diego, California to meet real-world experts who are harnessing the power of the genome to improve lives and support the Earth’s natural resources.

Inspire the Next Generation with Career Exploration

What are some ways you show students how STEM skills can lead to life-changing careers? Perhaps you can invite local STEM professionals to give a presentation on their career paths and how they achieved it or ask students to select a famous STEM professional for a report! There are many creative ways to engage students with STEM career paths, starting with the career resources in Discovery Education Experience.

Next, dive into the energy-water nexus with the Conservation Station Channel, an educational initiative from Itron and Discovery Education. This innovative, standards-aligned program encourages middle school students to explore the relationship between water and energy through the lens of conservation, with career profiles and STEM sit downs to highlight people who are making cities smarter and moving us toward a more energy-efficient future.

Get Girls Interested in STEM

Inspiring all students to explore STEM careers is important, but a recent survey by Girls Who Code and Logitech shows that early influences have a big impact on women entering STEM careers. 60% of women surveyed said a parent or a teacher encouraged them to study computer science, demonstrating the pivotal role particular adults play in supporting women at a young age. Discovery Education has great resources to help girls see (and learn from) real women working in STEM careers!

The IF/THEN Initiative is committed to showing young girls exactly what a scientist looks like. The IF/THEN Channel seeks to further advance women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) by empowering current innovators and inspiring the next generation of pioneers.

“I teach with the ‘see it, be it mentality.’ I believe we need to show students, particularly girls, that their ideas are valid, and they already have the power to make their dreams come true. With curated resources from Discovery Education and their partners, I can empower my students today to become the leaders of tomorrow.”

Cecilia Wilburn-Davis

South Carolina 5th Grade Teacher

Girls4Tech helps bridge the gap between opportunity, awareness, and readiness by providing schools and community organizations with free resources to educate, inspire, and equip young girls with the skills and confidence they need to envision themselves as future professionals in STEM fields. Find classroom activities, careers profiles, digital lesson bundles, and more in the Girls4Tech Channel!

Don’t miss National STEM Day on November 8! Sparking students’ interest in STEM careers and topics can extend past one holiday and you never know—it could create a lifelong passion!

The post #CelebrateWithDE: National STEM Day appeared first on Discovery Education.

Get Students Moving: Why Physical Immersive Activities Boost Engagement and Learning

Hannah McNaughton-Hussain — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:33:28 +0000

As educators know, sitting still for hours isn’t how children learn best. Decades of research and modern neuroscience all point to the same conclusion: physical movement improves attention, memory, motivation – and ultimately academic performance.

A 2023 meta‑analysis of over 7,300 participants found cognitively engaging physical activities (like movement requiring decision-making and rule-following) produced improvements in working memory, fluid intelligence, on-task behaviour, and creativity.
Less than 42% of U.S. children ages  6–11 meet the recommended 60 minutes of daily physical activity – impacting health and classroom focus.
A campus tech‑services team sums it up: just ten minutes of standing or gentle movement raises concentration, reduces stress, and improves retention – even at the college level.
A 2025 systematic review of children with ADHD found physical activity interventions improved working memory.

Movement enhances brain function by increasing circulation, activating cerebellar coordination centers, and strengthening recall pathways. When students move – whether via brain breaks, gesture-based math, or kinesthetic games – they stay alert and motivated, and they process concepts more deeply.

Immersive Learning: AR/VR Experiences Provide Opportunities for Movement

Immersive learning environments – think augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), simulations, role‑plays – are natural allies of physical, experiential learning. These technologies encourage learners to move through scenarios, manipulate virtual objects, and act out scenarios in ways that traditional instruction simply can’t.

When students move, they don’t just activate their muscles – they awaken a network of senses that feeds the brain with rich, multisensory input. Shifting position, changing perspective, and engaging in tactile interaction stimulates sight, sound, touch, and even balance, creating a layered sensory experience. These moments act as cognitive attractors – memorable, high‑engagement events where attention sharpens and information “sticks” more deeply. In immersive learning, physical movement amplifies this effect, making the experience feel real, personal, and memorable.

TimePod Adventures

TimePod Adventures turns students into the main character in narrative‑driven, 3D storylines – such as historic journeys or scientific explorations – played out in AR on an iPad or iPhone. Students physically move through space to investigate clues, collaborate in groups, and solve problems. The combination of spatial movement, story immersion, and peer interaction naturally promotes engagement, memory retention, and higher order thinking.

Download TimePod Adventures for iPad and iPhone

Sandbox AR

Sandbox AR enables students to build, share, and inhabit virtual topical worlds using augmented reality on an iPad. Whether constructing ecosystems, exploring ancient civilizations, or modeling scientific phenomena, learners physically move around their creations, manipulate objects in 3D space, and collaborate with classmates. It transforms abstract concepts into tactile, shared experiences – driving engagement and deep understanding.

Download Sandbox AR for iPad

Connecting Research to Practice

So how do these AR tools bridge the gap between research on movement and real classroom application?

Movement-Inspired Engagement & Retention

Stepping into a TimePod Adventures scene or walking around a Sandbox AR build turns learning into a physical experience. This movement taps into embodied cognition – boosting attention, memory, and concept retention.

Intrinsic Motivation and Autonomy

Physically active learning has been shown to raise motivation, independence, and mastery. Both apps put students in the driver’s seat, letting them explore, create, choose paths, and solve problems in ways that feel personally meaningful.

Active Collaboration and Social Interaction

Group work comes naturally here. Students move together, share observations, and make real‑time decisions. These moments mirror the benefits seen in active learning research, where collaboration, role‑play, and simulation strengthen critical thinking and achievement.

Classroom Management Support

Movement doesn’t have to mean chaos. Sandbox AR’s “table scale” mode keeps students seated while they build, discuss, and explain their choices, then “life scale” mode delivers that big immersive moment. TimePod Adventures’ 10‑minute AR episodes pair with full‑length classroom activities, giving students a structured, reflective segment to settle, focus, and capture their learning on paper.

Tips for Educators: Putting AR Movement to Work in Your Classroom

Plan for shared space: Clear an area where students can stand and move with tablets. Let them rotate roles – navigator, clue‑tracker, builder – to keep energy flowing.
Blend movement with content: Ask students to gesture concepts – map routes, act out historical events, or build with Sandbox pieces. Embedding learning in physical activity strengthens memory.
Reflect on experience: After each AR session, invite groups to discuss: What did moving around reveal? How did acting it out help you remember or understand?
Alternate formats: Use TimePod Adventures for narrative exploration, and Sandbox AR for creative building. That variety keeps engagement high and supports different learning objectives.

Ready to Get Your Students Moving?

Bringing physical movement into the classroom isn’t about turning lessons into PE class – it’s about following the science. Students who move stay more alert, engaged, motivated, and they learn better. Immersive learning tools like TimePod Adventures and Sandbox AR deliver movement-rich, experiential learning that echoes what decades of research tell us: embodied, active classrooms help students thrive.

By combining high‑quality AR experiences with flexible classroom design and purposeful reflection, educators can turn content into lived experiences – boosting engagement, memory, and outcomes in ways that traditional methods simply can’t match.

Hannah McNaughton-Hussain

The post Get Students Moving: Why Physical Immersive Activities Boost Engagement and Learning appeared first on Discovery Education.

The State of AI in Education: Dealing with Disruption

DE Staff — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:47:19 +0000

“Welcome, how can I help?” This may look familiar if you’ve used generative artificial intelligence (AI). Whether you’re currently using AI or not, you likely recognize that AI is affecting every industry, including education. For example, the 2025–2026 Education Insights report revealed that 40% of students admit using AI on assignments without permission. Based on this report and other news, it’s clear that AI in education is reshaping what it means to teach, learn, and engage. Let’s explore how schools can adapt now to prepare students for the future.

Download the Report

AI in Education Today

If a significant number of students are using AI to help them complete assignments without permission, are teachers aware of this? Yes, according to the 2025–2026 Education Insights report: 65% say they have caught their students doing so. Even if they haven’t caught students cheating using AI, teachers are aware that the potential exists.

Not all students have embraced AI in education, whether for cheating or for approved uses. Some are concerned that using AI will dull their critical-thinking skills, and others don’t find using AI to be fulfilling or a part of meaningful learning. Many students question the usefulness of the skills they’re currently learning based on what AI is already able to do. In fact, 70% of high school students surveyed for the Education Insights report agreed with the statement, “I believe the skills I’m learning will be something AI can do.” This belief may play a role in disengagement for some learners in the classroom.

Ultimately, the ease of student access to AI means that educators find themselves needing to find a balance between limiting misuse and exploring potential. Based on Education Insights report findings, educator familiarity with AI and AI tools may affect classroom usage:

Only 49% of teachers report using AI to complete tasks at school
Just 53% of teachers feel optimistic about AI’s possibilities

In contrast, 70% of the high school students who reported that they have used AI with approval believe it was helpful, saying they’ve been able to learn and complete schoolwork faster.

The Engagement Connection: Why AI Matters Beyond Technology

Research shows that engaged students learn and achieve more than peers who aren’t actively involved in their learning. Because engagement is so important, educators may wonder whether including AI in their classroom is a good idea. One challenge that AI presents is that it can complicate how teachers see and measure student engagement. For example, AI can make student thinking harder to observe where teachers only see the final output of completed assignments. And getting to that final output doesn’t mean that the student put in the necessary effort for deep learning to occur, like with traditional approaches to teaching and learning.

Challenges and Opportunities with AI in Education

Like many technological innovations, AI presents both risks and opportunities when students have access to it in the classroom. Primary risks come from misuse and include:

Deliberately using AI in ways that are not approved or intended
Convenient ways to plagiarize
Overreliance on AI that stunts critical thinking
Shortcuts that undermine authentic learning experiences

Notable opportunities include:

Personalized learning
Scaffolding when students need it
Increased efficiency in completing assignments and research
New forms of creativity and inquiry

Despite the risks, AI is here to stay, and educators are learning to define its role in teaching and learning. In doing so, they can guide students to use it thoughtfully so that it enhances, rather than replaces, meaningful engagement.

AI Strategies for Schools

Here are six recommended strategies to increase your chances of success:

Establish clear policies and shared language for AI use
Focus on process and thinking during assessment, not just output
Teach AI literacy explicitly
Design assignments that AI can’t easily solve
Use AI to support differentiation and feedback
Continuously evaluate and adapt practices

Note that you don’t have to figure all of this out on your own. Prominent companies can provide guidance and even work side by side with you to evaluate challenges, needs, and resources. For example, Norton, a leader in online safety, has joined the Digital Citizenship Initiative by Discovery Education and will offer free standards-aligned classroom resources supporting safe student engagement with AI.

Here’s what one teacher told us about AI in her classroom:

I always look for ways to engage students in using AI effectively—for example, to generate ideas, organize thoughts, and clarify questions—rather than relying on it to write papers or complete assignments.

Jessica Erlanger, High School English Teacher, Upland, CA

Shaping the Future, Not Simply Reacting

Most likely, AI is already being used in your school or district’s classrooms, and its presence will only continue to grow as the technology develops. So the question about AI is “How do we best use it to enhance teaching and learning?” rather than “How do we deal with it?” As we’ve seen in our exploration of the state of AI in education, when educators approach it with clarity, creativity, and intentionality, they can turn disruption into opportunity.

There’s more about AI in education and a wealth of fascinating insights into student engagement in our full Education Insights 2025–2026 report!

Download the Report

DE Staff

The post The State of AI in Education: Dealing with Disruption appeared first on Discovery Education.

Building Career Confidence: Helping Students Explore What’s Possible

Hannah McNaughton-Hussain — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 03:24:34 +0000

Middle and high school students often face a daunting question: What do you want to be when you grow up? For many, the pressure to have a clear answer comes far too early – long before they’ve had the chance to explore what options even exist. But what if we shifted the goal from choosing a career to building the confidence that one will suit them someday?

As educators, we’re in a powerful position to open that door. By providing space for students to explore a wide variety of career pathways – without pressure or expectation – we help them develop a mindset of curiosity and possibility.

Exploring Careers for the Sake of Possibility

For today’s students, the world of work is bigger – evolving faster – than ever before. There are jobs in industries that didn’t exist ten years ago, and many more that students won’t hear about in everyday conversation. That’s why it’s essential to offer them guided ways to explore widely, before they feel pressured to decide.

Career exploration isn’t just about making decisions. It’s about building belief: belief that they’ll find something meaningful. Belief that their unique interests and strengths are valuable. Belief that there’s a place for them in the world of work, even if they don’t know what it’s called yet.

Career Finder from Discovery Education

Designed specifically for middle and high school students, this free, web-based tool helps students explore dozens of careers – especially within the wide world of STEM – through short videos and adaptive prompts. It’s a personalized, video-driven journey that puts students in the driver’s seat.

Using a mix of real-life job stories, engaging media, and thoughtful questions, Career Finder gives students a “conversation-like” experience – meeting real professionals and learning what they do, how they got there, and why they love it.

How It Works: A Journey of Self-Discovery

The Career Finder is built around four key themes that shape how students think about future jobs:

Workplace Environment – Do they want to work indoors or outdoors? With people or on their own?
Communication Style – Are they comfortable presenting? Do they like collaborating?
Motivation – What drives them: building relationships, pursuing their passion, learning new skills?
Level of Education – Are they thinking about college, apprenticeships, or on-the-job training?

Through each of these themes, students interact with the content by selecting preferences, watching short, high-quality videos, and providing feedback. They’ll meet a Minecraft Engineer, a Fire Sprinkler Fitter, a Bat Conservationist, and many more – each bringing something unexpected and inspiring to the table.

At the end, students receive a summary of their preferences, plus links to even more careers and learning resources. This open-ended structure means students can return again and again, discovering new paths each time.

Why It Matters: The Benefits for Students

This Career Finder isn’t about locking students into one “perfect” job. It’s about inviting them to explore, reflect, and imagine the future on their own terms. Here’s what makes it such a valuable tool:

Confidence in the Future – Students hear directly from real people who once had the same questions they do now. That representation matters: it builds confidence that there’s a career out there they’ll connect with.
Early Exposure to Career Pathways – Whether or not students are thinking about jobs yet, seeing the variety of options early on helps them connect the dots between school and the real world.
Student Agency – The experience is self-directed, letting students choose what they watch and how they respond. This freedom supports authentic engagement.
Accessibility for All Classrooms – The interactive is browser-based, requires no log-in, and works on any device, making it a great fit for classrooms with limited tech or time.
Open-Ended Seat Time – With many branching pathways to explore, the Career Finder works well during advisory periods, enrichment blocks, substitute plans, or career readiness lessons.
Personalized Reflection – The interactive adapts to each student’s input and provides a summary they can use to spark follow-up discussions or guide further research.

How Teachers Are Using It

Here are just a few ways the Career Finder can be woven into everyday classroom moments:

Career Readiness Lessons – Use it as a launch point for classroom discussion or journaling about interests and goals.
STEM Classrooms – Show the diversity of careers connected to science, tech, engineering, and math – even ones students wouldn’t expect!
Social-Emotional Learning – Support self-awareness and confidence by helping students explore their communication styles and motivations.
Advisory or Homeroom Time – Let students explore independently, then share one new job they found interesting with a peer.
Virtual or Hybrid Settings – Assign Career Finder as an asynchronous activity with a follow-up reflection or class discussion.

Starting the Conversation

The new Career Finder ends with a strong message: This is just the beginning.

Helping students explore careers isn’t about pressuring them to decide early – it’s about building curiosity, confidence, and clarity. When students understand that there’s a whole world of jobs they’ve never even heard of, they begin to see possibility in their future.

Discovery Education’s Career Finder gives them a safe, engaging, and empowering way to start that journey. It’s free, flexible, and designed with student voice at its core.

Get Started

Hannah McNaughton-Hussain

The post Building Career Confidence: Helping Students Explore What’s Possible appeared first on Discovery Education.

Literacy and Math Strategies in the U.S.: What’s Working and What Isn’t

DE Staff — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 22:39:38 +0000

Taking Time to Assess Instructional Impact

Educators must always balance urgent needs in classrooms with the longer-term goal of improving student outcomes. As part of a regular series on the state of education in the U.S., we asked four passionate leaders in K–12 education to join us for a conversation about literacy and math instruction and student achievement:

Dr. Emily Hare, Director of PreK–12 Mathematics for Guilford County Schools
Dr. Amanda Malone, K–12 Literacy Director for the Mississippi Department of Education
Dr. Melissa Sadorf, Executive Director of the National Rural Education Association and professor at Northern Arizona University
Dr. Rufus Hill, State Director of K–12 Mathematics Coaching for the Mississippi Department of Education

Host Dr. Karen Beerer, Senior Vice President of State and Strategic Partnerships at Discovery Education, opened the discussion by outlining what educators are observing and the pressures they’re experiencing in schools and districts of all kinds:

The declines evident in the 2024 NAEP reading and math scores
Legislation in many states that requires evidence-based instruction in curricula and sets aside funding for curriculum, tutoring, and acceleration efforts.
Technology fatigue for educators driving demand for simpler, integrated solutions
Teacher shortages and the effects on educators, schools, and districts

But these challenges also create opportunities for using personalization and data-driven strategies to close gaps, making conversations like this one essential for driving progress in literacy and math.

What’s Currently Working?

Dr. Beerer said, “I thought we’d start with Mississippi, because when you read about the amazing growth that Mississippi students have achieved over the past decade, they often call it the ‘Mississippi Miracle.’ [But] it really wasn’t a miracle. It was planned, strategic systems of change.” Dr. Amanda Malone explained that everything began with legislation focused on K–3. Now schools throughout the state have literacy coaches who focus on “the whole child and the whole teacher.” In addition, they’ve found having access to high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) is key.

For rural communities, relationships remain the foundation. Dr. Melissa Sadorf shared, “Teachers know their students and their families on a very personal level, and that allows those instructors to be highly responsive to student needs, even when formal resources are scarce.” By necessity, teachers wear multiple hats and can use technology to be a bridge that levels the playing field for students.

At the district level, Dr. Emily Hare explained that they are “intentional about aligning their work to a shared vision and value about what math instruction is and the experience each student should have” in her district. This shared vision guides curriculum development, HQIM choices, and professional learning, resulting in consistency across classrooms.

What Needs More Attention?

“Too many students are leaving high school without the skills they need to succeed, especially in rural and high-poverty schools,” remarked Dr. Sadorf. Teacher shortages are making sustained improvement difficult, and a reliance on short-term grants and pilot programs means gains are hard to hold onto.

Dr. Hare agreed, adding: “We’ve articulated clear commitments at the state and district level, but how do we ensure that our supports and resources are consistent across all of those schools? It’s really not a question of effort—I think we all know that—but of sustaining and scaling that vision so that it lives in daily practice.”

In Mississippi, coaches are actively building teacher capacity around HQIM, but sometimes teachers are trained and then leave. Dr. Malone emphasized that using resources most effectively will help, especially when technology is involved.

Dr. Rufus Hill pointed out that using resources with fidelity is important for success, especially since the teacher shortage means not everyone has the specific background in what they’re teaching. He mentioned one math teacher with an ELA background who has “been able to kind of teach herself to teach the students” using HQIM.

Strategies and Real-World Examples of Change

The panelists shared programs, approaches, and partnerships that are driving real gains in literacy and numeracy.

Dr. Malone identified:

Using and training educators on structured literacy, which is based on the Science of Reading
Helping students learn to read in the most efficient way
Continually evolving and learning as educators

Dr. Hill noted:

Implementing the Mathematics Instruction Observational Protocol (MIOP)
Creating a coaching academy with instructional leaders and coaches
Starting a partnership with the Dana Center at the University of Texas

Dr. Hare emphasized:

Implementing HQIM with integrity for children that are traditionally underserved
Supporting collaborative math leadership teams at school and district levels
Seeking input from cross-collaborative district teams multiple times per year

Dr. Sadorf then concluded that collaboration is a multiplier: partnering increases impact, closes gaps, and “ensures educator voices shape solutions that benefit everyone.”

Supplemental Resources

Regarding HQIM and supplemental resources, Dr. Beerer asked how educators assess them and then implement them in the classroom. Dr. Malone noted that while each district chooses its own resources, state department level administrators can “see commonalities and provide coaching around those.” She recommended using supplemental resources to elevate math and literacy instruction.

Innovation in Math and Literacy

The panelists each offered a single word or phrase to capture what innovation in math and literacy means to them.

Dr. Sadorf chose the word connected, saying, “Innovation in literacy math has to connect students to engaging, relevant learning.”
Dr. Hare chose alignment, explaining, “It’s about aligning to our vision, our values.”
Dr. Hill came up with purposeful, noting, “I just think that with every decision that we make, we need to make sure that we have a purpose for that.”
Dr. Malone’s phrase was “Effectively partnering what we know with what we have, with a learner in mind.”

Engagement’s Role in Learning

In closing, Dr. Beerer brought up the “big topic” of engagement, something that always seems to come up in discussions about ways to improve learning. She noted that the 2025–2026 Education Insights Report, with a focus on engagement, offers key insights about education, motivation, and challenges in today’s classrooms. The report is free to download.

There’s so much more to learn from the full discussion!

Watch the Video

Host and Experts’ Backgrounds

Dr. Karen Beerer, Senior Vice President of State and Strategic Partnerships at Discovery Education.

Dr. Emily Hare, Director of PreK–12 Mathematics for Guilford County Schools. With a Ph.D. in Teacher Education, she is dedicated to building strong systems that empower teachers and students to succeed in math.

Dr. Amanda Malone, K–12 Literacy Director for the Mississippi Department of Education. With over 20 years of experience as a teacher, coach, and coordinator, she brings deep expertise in literacy leadership. She earned her Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration.

Dr. Melissa Sadorf, Executive Director of the National Rural Education Association and professor at Northern Arizona University. She has over 30 years of experience in education as a teacher, principal, and superintendent.

Dr. Rufus Hill, State Director of K–12 Mathematics Coaching for the Mississippi Department of Education. He earned degrees from Alabama A&M, Delta State University, and completed his doctorate at National University.

The post Literacy and Math Strategies in the U.S.: What’s Working and What Isn’t appeared first on Discovery Education.

Elevating Learning: Instructional Strategies for Engaging Virtual Field Trips

DE Staff — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 19:43:03 +0000

Virtual field trips are a game-changer in education, offering exclusive behind-the-scenes experiences that transcend classroom walls. With the latest Virtual Field Trips from Discovery Education, teachers can lean on these effective instructional strategies to bring these exciting experiences into their classrooms, sparking curiosity and deepening understanding across grade bands.

The Superpower of Story: A Virtual Field Trip to Warner Bros. Studios

Students in grades 6-12 thrive on exploration and critical thinking. An inquiry-based approach will allow students to analyze the role of storytelling in entertainment, questioning how narratives are crafted and why they resonate.

Implementation

Before the field trip, introduce essential questions like: What makes a story compelling? How do filmmakers use visual and narrative techniques to shape emotions?

During the video, have students take notes on key storytelling elements and industry insights.

Post-trip, facilitate a Socratic Seminar or a project-based activity where students develop their own short scripts or visual storyboards, applying the techniques they learned.

This strategy fosters critical thinking, creative expression, and essential analytical skills across disciplines.

Meet the Magnets: A Virtual Field Trip to the NSF Mag Lab

Students in grades K-5 grasp STEM concepts best through active, tactile experiences, and magnets provide an exciting way to explore forces and interactions with hands-on learning.

Implementation

Before the video, introduce magnets through simple investigations like testing attraction and repulsion with household items.

During the video, encourage students to record observations by sketching and describing experiments they see at the NSF Mag Lab.

Afterward, engage in interactive STEM centers, allowing students to build magnet mazes, test electromagnetic properties, or create models demonstrating real-world applications of magnetism.

This strategy builds foundational science inquiry skills and aligns with early STEM learning standards.

Total Health: A Virtual Field Trip with NBA and WNBA

Students in grades 3-8 benefit from integrated learning experiences that connect physical wellness with broader academic content.

Implementation

Start by exploring the science of movement with lessons on heart rate, nutrition, and the impact of exercise.

During the video, students can track key takeaways using a graphic organizer focused on nutrition, fitness, and mental health strategies.

Post-video, incorporate an interdisciplinary project where students design their own health and wellness action plans based on insights from professional athletes.

This approach strengthens connections between science, physical education, and real-world decision-making.

With inquiry-based exploration, hands-on STEM activities, and interdisciplinary wellness strategies, educators can turn these virtual field trips into transformative learning experiences. Whether students are immersed in storytelling, experimenting with magnets, or developing healthier habits, each virtual field trip offers an opportunity for deep engagement and meaningful connections.

Which strategy are you most excited to implement? Let’s make these field trips unforgettable!

Explore More Virtual Field Trips from Discovery Education!

For DE Educators, access the Virtual Field Trips Channel in Experience. Not a DE user? No problem! You can access all Virtual Field Trips on DiscoveryEducation.com.

Virtual Field Trip Channel

Non-DE Educators

The post Elevating Learning: Instructional Strategies for Engaging Virtual Field Trips appeared first on Discovery Education.