Discovery Education Plus

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Discovery Education Plus

• Over 9000 videos and 71, 000 content clips!

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WWW.DiscoveryEducation.com
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Take a Look at Metamorphosis
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Take a Look at Triangles
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Take a Look at Semicolons
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Your Goal for Discover Ed Plus

• Learn how to search for curriculum-related
  resources
• Learn how to organize Discovery Ed resources in
  My Content
• Learn how to download a video to your school hard
  drive
• Investigate the DE tools available to you
• Develop a DE resource folder either in DE or in
  your school folder

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Whats in Discovery Ed?

• Lots of videos and video clips
• Accompanying text materials
• Teachers guides
• Calendar to make historical connections
• A lesson plan library (over 200 plans)
• Thematic topic materials

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More DE Tools

• Classroom management tool
• An assignment builder
• Assessment tools
• Writing prompts
• A professional learning community (DEN)
• A newsletter

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Finding a Video for Your Lesson

• Search
• Key Word
• Subject
• Grade
• Media/Type
• Video Detail
• Media Pack

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Keyword Search
Step 1 Type in your topic. Step 2 Select All
Services to find a wide range of resources. Step
3 Select DE Streaming to find videos. Step 4
Streamline your search by selecting grades and
media types.
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Narrow Your Search

• Step 1 Remove previously selected search
  strategies if needed.
• Step 2 Add other search limits
• Subject
• Grade
• Media Type
• Video Detail
• Teachers Guide
• Media Pack

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Preview Your Video
Step 1 Hold your mouse over the image of the
video segment. Step 2 Read the summary and
preview the video. Step 3 Left click on the
video to get more information.
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Download or Stream

• Download
• Ensures use if Internet is down
• Embed into other applications, like PowerPoint
• Take it with you on a flash drive

• Stream
• FSD has 100 mbps on desktops
• Saves hard drive space
• Accessible from Internet at home

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Select a Video

• Either click on segments or entire video to
  either download or include in My Content or
• Choose to download the video to your drive

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Save a Video to Your School Drive 1
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Save a Video to Your School Drive 2
Step 4 Select your folder on your schools hard
drive. Step 5 Create a folder for your
videos. Step 6 Double click on that folder and
rename your video file.
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Lets Do That Now
www.DiscoveryEducation.com
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Using My Content
Step 1 Login to DE using your IMTS
information. Step 2 Click on the My Content
tab. Step 3 Add folders to My Content as
needed.
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Save a Video to Your DE My Content

• Step 1 Click on the My Content tab.
• Step 2 Add folders to My Content as needed.
• Step 3 Click on the white box to add or assign
  this video. A check box will appear. Ensure
  that My Content shows in the white box below.
• Step 4 Click on the Add button.

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Teacher Center Calendar
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Lets Do That Now
www.DiscoveryEducation.com
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DE Calendar?
Use the Calendar to connect your students to
historical events in every area of study. Click
on the events to the right of the calendar to see
a listing of resources.
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Teacher Center Lesson Plan Library
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Lesson Plans
Look through the Teacher Center to find many
lesson plans and resources. Save resources to
your school drive.
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Teacher Center Thematic Focus
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Thematic Focus
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Teacher Center Atlas
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DE Atlas
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DE Atlas Mouse Over and Click
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DE Atlas
Find resources related to that countrys culture,
government, history, and natural world. Click on
the links to the right to watch videos about that
country.
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Teacher Center Community
DEN Newsletter
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Investigate Discover Ed Streaming Plus

• Spend some time investigating, selecting, and
  saving resources for your curriculum areas.