Digital Discovery Workshop Teacher Toolkits

Educator Fatima teaching a Virtual Field Trip

Welcome to the resource hub of materials to prepare teachers and their students before, during, and after a Digital Discovery Workshop with Pacific Science Center.

Have questions or need help? Email the Education Team

Resources for all Digital Discovery Workshops

  • Pre-Program Checklist Review: This checklist is required
  • Social Narrative: A simple slide deck story with images to help learners understand what to expect on their Digital Discovery Workshop. Be sure to edit the slides where indicated to best fit your group’s plan!
  • FAQ
  • Next Generation Science Standards: Science standards that each Digital Discovery Workshop supports
  • Accommodations Offerings: Simplified list of accommodations that can be made to increase accessibility for diverse learner needs
  • Survey: Tell us what you think after your program to help us improve.

Teacher Toolkit Components

Each Digital Discovery Workshop Toolkit contains the following components. These optional resources help you easily extend the learning before, during, and after the live program, and can be used within the learning space, or shared with students to do at home with their families. Select workshops include Lumio teacher resources.

Program Overview

Clipboard with pencil

Discussion Questions

Two speech bubbles

Printable Worksheets

Worksheet with a pencil

Activity Guides

Hand waving

STEAM Videos

Video play icon

Reading lists

Book open

For more hands-on activities on all STEAM topics, visit our Curiosity at Home webpage and explore activities by age group and topic in both English and Spanish.

Teacher Toolkits

Download the toolkit for your program below.

Animal Adventures

Beaver in the water

ECOSYSTEM INVESTIGATORS

Wetland plants

Featured Creatures

Animal skull

Forces of Energy

Little balls on strings

Global Soundscapes

Earth with sound imagery behind it

Night Sky Tonight

House with stars in the sky

Piece of Mind

Close image of a brain

Planetary Geology

Close up of moon and sun

Polar Predictions

Aerial view of Earth

Radical Reactions

Three beakers in a lab

Robots on mars

Robot moving on Mars

Stick the Landing

Robot landing on a planet

Wetland Wonderers

Bug under a telescope

Generous support provided by:

Digital Discovery Workshops are generously supported by Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation, Bamford Foundation, Hazel Miller Foundation, and NASA under award No. NNX16AB86A. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Additional support comes from more than 1,500 individuals, companies and foundations that donate to Pacific Science Center each year, as well as more than 13,000 member households from every corner of Washington State and around the country. Learn more about ways you can support Digital Discovery Workshops and Pacific Science Center.