Discovery Education Secondary

Inspire curiosity. Make your world bigger.

Inspire curiosity beyond the classroom.

Discovery Education Secondary is an online service that gives secondary school teachers access to more than 8000 easy-to-use, engaging resources across 16 subject areas, with creative tools to make lesson planning quicker and easier.

Resources are created by experienced teachers and curriculum specialists, and draw from trusted sources, such as the Discovery Channel, Science Channel, Animal Planet and BBC Worldwide.

It is designed to empower teachers and inspire students’ curiosity about their world.

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The digital content you need, all in one place

Our content will save you time on searching for relevant and engaging resources for lessons, and you'll receive support with planning through comprehensive teacher guides. Your students will be able to research topics, recap and revise, and experience new ideas, concepts and cultures that will inspire their curiosity to learn more.

You will be able to:

play, download, edit and share more than 3,800 curriculum focused videos
engage students and assess their understanding of a topic with ready-made quizzes
add a variety of media to your lessons quickly, using slideshows, worksheets and images provided
make connections across the curriculum, to embed your students’ learning
explore topics in depth with Content collections on key topic areas, supported by teacher guides to help plan your lessons

Discovery Education Secondary’s resources support you in EBacc and Progress 8 subjects, covering: Art & design, Business, Computing, Design & technology, English & drama, French, Geography, German, History, Maths, Music, PE, PSHE, RE, Science and Spanish.

Whole school resources

Help your students discover more about the wider world around them, and promote British values with whole school resources including:

Daily News

A 60-second round-up of the day's major headlines, perfect for use in assembly or tutor time.

Weekly News

Two stories of curriculum relevance. With teacher's guidance, a transcript and an interactive quiz for students to complete.

Careers videos

Inform students about the career avenues that different subjects open up.

Create and share with ease

To make the best use of all of the resources available, we also provide you with a set of creative and flexible digital tools. These tools will enable you to create personalised resources to support differentiation, and give students a new way to engage in lessons.

Assignment Builder

Quickly build and store assignments for your students, using Discovery Education Secondary content and your own uploaded resources.

Board Builder

A fun and visual way for teachers and students to create digital pin-boards featuring video, text and images.

Quiz Builder

Assess your students' understanding by creating and assigning interactive, self-marking quizzes.

Get these resources today!

You can get these resources today in one of two ways: as a whole school annual subscription that includes all 16 subjects and news, or by subscribing to the English, Science & news resources individually.

Whole school subscription

Resources: All subjects

English, Maths, Science, Computer Science, Geography, History, French, German, Spanish, Art & Design, Business, Design & Technology, Music, PE, PSHE and Religious Studies.

Board Builder

Develop digital pinboards that combine videos and images from the service, with your own text.

Quiz Builder

Create short formative assessments for a quick check of your students' understanding.

Assignment Builder

Produce and allocate assignments for students and classes, using resources from the service as well as your own.

Classroom Manager

Share and assign resources to students by uploading your student data into the service.

Daily News

A 60-second round-up of the day's major headlines, perfect for use in assembly or tutor time.

Weekly News

A bulletin consisting of two stories of particular curriculum relevance which are looked at in depth, and accompanied by teacher notes and a quiz to check understanding.

12, 24, or 36 month contract

£2,800 per year

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School FTE lower than 100?
Subscription available for £1,000 per year

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