Discovery Education Streaming
In January 2008 Living Sky School Division began subscribing to Discovery Education Streaming a digital video-on-demand and online teaching service to help improve students' retention and test scores that is aligned to provincial curriculum standards.
The Discovery Education Streaming Video Site is extremely informative but it also absolutely enhances students’ learning. Today I showed the video, Cells: The Basic Units of Life. It not only adequately covered most of the material in our Science Grade 7 core unit, Basics of Life, but the students really did enjoy the presentation. I’ve looked at many of the videos on this site, and can easily see how they can be effectively utilized to get students energized and engaged in hands-on learning experiences. Video is the perfect medium for students who are auditory or visual learners.
And a student...
This website is very full of interesting things, and the movie we watched today was outstanding. It gave us great details of everything about our unit, and it is a great website to learn from. Thank you very much; I know my whole class will enjoy this website just as much as me.
Worth viewing is this excellent set of screencasts created by Eldon Germann at Macklin School to help his teachers use Discovery Streaming Video.
Contact Information
Donna DesRoches
Learning Resources Consultant
Living Sky School Division
509 Pioneer Avenue
North Battleford, SK
S9A 4A5
306-937-7904
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