PRODUCT OVERVIEW
Discovery Education
Health Connection is an
easy-to-use online health and prevention resource for K-12 educators that
effectively addresses the needs of the whole student.
With more than 16
state standard–correlated curriculum programs covering nine key topic
areas (Physical Activity, Mental Health, Alcohol and Other Drugs,
Violence, Safety, Nutrition, Tobacco, The Body, Growth and Development),
Discovery Education Health Connection offers educators a comprehensive
collection of videos, lessons developed around key literacy strategies,
teacher’s guides and worksheets to provide students with a well-rounded
mental, physical and emotional health education.
Each section comprises
a research-based, teacher-reviewed K-12 curriculum. Some of the curricula
— Here's Looking at You in the Drugs section; Get Real about
Tobacco™, in the Tobacco section; and Get Real About Violence™
in the Violence section — have already been widely used throughout the
country and have been converted to online programs for Discovery Education
Health Connection. The other curricula have been created specifically for
this Web site:
- Body Works™ in the Body section
- Me and Them™ in the Growth and Development section
- Peace of Mind™ in the Mental Health section
- Nutrition
Smarts™ in the Nutrition
section
- Getting
Physical™ in the Physical
Activity section
- All Safe™
in the Safety section
Content
can be integrated into an existing curriculum, or a full-curriculum
program may be followed.
Discovery Education unitedstreaming™ is a curriculum-based video-on-demand
service featuring the largest online educational video collection
available. unitedstreaming delivers more than 4,000 K-12
standards-based digital videos segmented into more than 50,000 easily
accessible video clips.
The unitedstreaming
video library includes standards-based videos in Science, Social Studies,
Mathematics, Language Arts, Health and Guidance, Art, Professional
Development and other subjects. The collection is continuously expanding,
with new Discovery Education content added throughout the year.
unitedstreaming videos are available for live streaming or
downloading, may be delivered during non-peak hours using our Network
Manager, or may be hosted on a Web server.
PBS Media Package - Through a special arrangement between Discovery
Education and PBS, you can add this premium Media Package with more than
500 PBS titles to your existing unitedstreaming account. This PBS Media
Package includes many critically acclaimed K-12 titles, including
series from NOVA, Ken Burns, Masterpiece Theatre, Liberty's Kids
and more. Note: There is no online preview available for this product.
PowerMediaPlus
is a new curriculum-based media-on-demand service featuring more than
3,000 standards-based videos segmented into more than 30,000 core-concept
video segments. Additionally, PowerMediaPlus offers more than 7,000 audio
files ranging from Children's Literature songs and stories to famous
presidential speeches and award-winning audio books. Most
PowerMediaPlus content is not found anywhere else.
Podcast hosting is
also available on the site, as are the capabilities for educators to
create lesson plans, online assessments and assignments that can be
grouped together and shared within a building or district.
With evenly
distributed K-12 content in all curriculum areas, including Language Arts,
Science, Social Studies, Math, Music, Health, Art, Professional
Development and more from publishers such as Discovery Education,
Clearvue & SVE, Weston Woods and Globe Trekker, PowerMediaPlus is a
versatile resource for the versatile classroom teacher.
PowerMediaPlus videos
are available for live streaming or downloading, may be delivered during
non-peak hours, or may be hosted on a Web server.
Web accessibility
(ADA, Section 508 compliance):
Discovery Education will continue to make every reasonable effort to be in
full compliance with Section 508 and other ADA requirements. The fact that
Discovery Education is the leader among educational companies in providing
closed captions on videos speaks to its commitment to provide reasonable
access to educational media distributed in schools and other places of
learning.
The unitedstreaming
application is an Internet-based content-delivery system launched in
January 2001. It employs new technology that is still in development. A
review of Section 508 was conducted and it was determined that Discovery
Education will work to make alternative access to information available
within the limits of the technology available.
Examples of action
taken to date include the closed-caption option for the hearing impaired
and printable PDF files for the teacher’s guides, and student activities
that include the option to increase the type size before printing.
The guidelines
recommend that "alternative formats and methods" be available. (For
example large print, audio and captioning). The video programs in
unitedstreaming are also available in videotape formats with
captioning. The video format offers an alternative method of delivering
educational content.
Discovery Education
provides instructional tools and resources. The users of these tools and
resources also have a responsibility to comply with ADA regulations. Both
the publisher and user of published tools and resources are required to
comply by providing access where it is "readily achievable"
(Section 255).
Section 508 requires
that unitedstreaming “… be accessible except where it would cause
an ‘undue burden.’” Currently, the build-out of unitedstreaming in
order to make it fully accessible is not a practical solution and it would
constitute an undue burden to attempt to do so. However, please be assured
that Discovery Education will comply with the spirit of this law as well
as the letter of the law.
For Technical Support:
Phone: 800-323-9084
For unitedstreaming
or Discovery Health Connection Product Information:
Paul Brown, Ohio District Sales Manager
Discovery Education
1560 Sherman Avenue,
Suite 300
Evanston, IL 60201
E-mail:
Paul_brown@discovery.com
Phone: 1-800-323-9084, ext. 7314
Fax: 847-328-6706
For PowerMediaPlus
Product Information:
David Frech, Coordinator
Ohio Digital Classroom
110 South Jefferson
Street
Dayton, OH 45402
E-mail:
dfrech@thinktv.org
Phone: 937-220-1600
Fax: 937-220-1642
Discovery Education Web Page
