Discovery Education Resources

Discovery Education Espresso

Whether you are looking for core curriculum content or resources to support topics Espresso features thousands of videos, interactive activities, worksheets, images, sounds and augmented reality resources are grouped into curriculum-themes to support lessons across the whole school.

Teachers are able to:

• Customise how their Espresso content is organised to be specific to their individual needs,
• Create, collaborate and present with Studio, a flexible presentation tool for teachers and pupils  
• Share and assign lessons or resources to classes, groups or individual pupils
• Create quizzes and creative learning tasks 
• Seamlessly deliver lessons whether pupils are in person or online. 

Professional learning tools are also easy to access within Discovery Education Experience: 

• A ‘What works well’ area will bring together a selection of resources created by educational practitioners to help teachers get the very best out of the Espresso digital resources whether staff are teaching in-person or remotely. 
• All subscribers will have access to ‘SOS Instructional Strategies’, enabling teachers to create engaging active learning experiences with digital media.  ​

Discovery Education Coding

Discovery Education Coding provides complete support for teaching coding in primary schools. Pupils will gain secure understanding of coding concepts like algorithms, sequences and variables as well as developing computational thinking skills through decomposition, logical reasoning and problem solving.

Video tutorials present the code that pupils will learn and highlight correct terminology. And best of all, pupils and teachers alike will be able to demonstrate their creativity by creating their own apps and sharing them with their classmates and colleagues.

Teachers can:

• Share and assign coding resources to classes or individual pupils
• Seamlessly deliver lessons whether pupils are in person or online
• Save planning time with comprehensive lesson plans and teacher support resources
• Experience a fresh new interface and more intuitive workflow through lessons
• Showcase pupils’ creativity by sharing the apps and games they’ve created.

Discovery Health and Relationships provides an all-in-one digital programme that covers the complete set of Relationships and Health Education objectives for primary schools. The module is available on Discovery Experience and provides teachers with access to the following high-quality resources:

• Child-led, scenario-based videos
• Lesson frameworks
• Printable resources
• End to end curriculum planning
• Detailed teacher guidance
• Support with parental communication

STEM Connect offers a suite of resources for Key Stages 1, 2 and 3, designed to be used flexibly either within timetabled lessons, or in after-school STEM clubs. Hands-on tasks and challenges also shed light on different STEM careers, helping pupils identify future professions. The enquiry process is at the heart of STEM Connect, presenting relevant problems the next generation will have to solve.

Each unit is structured to encourage pupils to:

• Ask questions to understand the precise nature of the challenge presented.
• Plan how to conduct investigations to build knowledge and check assumptions.
• Design solutions, iterate and evaluate their effectiveness

The context for each challenge is set through videos, image galleries and fact-files, while worksheets guide pupils through the hands-on activities. This service is offered as discounted modules (further discounts for bundles of 3 or more) for:

• Key Stage 1
• Lower Key Stage 2
• Upper key Stage 2
• Key Stage 3