I am sure this is not news, but here is is. The website I cannot live without in my classroom is Discovery Education. I use it nearly every day in one capacity or another. As a teacher I use it for getting ideas from other teachers, making sure I am not missing any concept I need to hit in a unit, showing videos (especially clips 2-5 minutes long), using ready-made power points, or finding just the right photo of something. Then I began working with a wonderful colleague, Kelly Hines, who opened me up to a million more things this website can do to bring excitement and creativity into my classroom with the help of an amazing network of teachers and professionals collaborating on the site. It is an ever changing, ever growing invaluable resource for me as a teacher.
Additionally, as a learner, I have to give a shout out to Discovery Ed because I literally could not be teaching science right now without it. When I found out that a middle school science position was coming open, I only had 8 days to prepare for and pass the Praxis in middle school science. I started looking at the study guides and prep books and knew there were some concepts I had solidly, but others I knew it had been way too long or maybe I had never learned it at all. Discovery Ed became my tutor. I looked things up, and read about them, watched videos and practiced vocabulary all on the discovery Education website. I really don't think I could have been prepared for that test the way I was without that website. Discovery Education helped me change my classroom, my career and my life!
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