Located in the heart of San Bernardino, California, SBCUSD provides a comprehensive education through a diverse array of academic programs and innovative learning pathways serving nearly 50,000 students. Guided by a commitment to equity, safety, and collaboration, SBCUSD’s dedicated educators foster an inclusive environment where every student is encouraged to discover their unique strengths and pursue excellence. The district’s family-centered approach and strong community partnerships empower students to thrive academically and socially, nurturing responsible citizenship and lifelong learning. Through its Vision 2030 initiative, SBCUSD celebrates cultural diversity and invests in creative, resilient teaching practices that prepare students to succeed in school, career, and life. 

To support the principles of the Vision 2030 initiative and prepare district students for success beyond graduation, SBCUSD has created a Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) program. SBCUSD’s STEAM program fosters problem solving, inquiry, creativity, and innovation in order to prepare students for both college and career. 

To support SBCUSD’s STEAM program, district leaders sought additional digital resources that would engage students in interdisciplinary STEAM learning in new and innovative ways. Following a review of potential solutions, the district moved to integrate Discovery Education Experience into 11 additional schools, bringing the total number of schools in the district using this resource to 21.  

The essential companion for engaged classrooms, Discovery Education Experience is a supplemental cross-curricular digital resource that inspires teachers, motivates students, and supports instruction in all academic disciplines. Designed expressly for K-12 schools, Experience delivers all-in-one, ready-to-teach lessons and strategies, exciting career exploration resources, standards-aligned content, and flexible tools for differentiation and assessment. Earlier this year, Discovery Education announced a host of new enhancements to Discovery Education Experience that includes new tools and resources, AI technology, additional career explorations, and more.  

Discovery Education Experience will be used alongside two other Discovery Education solutions already used in classrooms across the district: Discovery Education Science Techbook and Mystery Science. 

“It’s critical for us to offer students engaging STEAM lessons that connect classroom instruction to the real world and that build the critical skills needed for future success” said Caitlin Arakawa, STEAM Program Specialist at SBCUSD. “We are excited to deepen our partnership with Discovery Education and bring these powerful tools to more classrooms across the district.” 

SBCUSD educators using the new solutions from Discovery Education will receive dedicated professional development from the company’s team of professional learning experts. These learning opportunities for teachers help schools recognize the full return on their edtech investment. Through Discovery Education’s interactive professional development sessions, participants will learn best practices for integrating their new digital resources into instruction. Effective professional learning increases student engagement and supports the continued academic development of all students.      

In addition, all educators using Discovery Education’s digital resources have access to the Discovery Educator Network or DEN. A global community of education professionals, the DEN connects members across school systems and around the world through social media, virtual conferences, and in-person events, fostering valuable idea sharing and inspiration.  Recently, the DEN celebrated 20 years of connecting educators to their most valuable resource: each other. Educators interested in learning more about this powerful professional learning community and joining the DEN can learn more here. 

“Discovery Education is proud to support San Bernardino City Unified School District’s work to create a world-class STEAM program,” said Rachel Merten, Discovery Education Account Executive. “The expansion of this long-term partnership will help scale the tremendous work already underway.” 

For more information about Discovery Education’s award-winning digital resources and professional learning solutions, visit www.discoveryeducation.com, and stay connected with Discovery Education on social media through LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook.       

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About Discovery Education 
Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art, PreK-12, digital solutions help educators engage all students and support higher academic achievement. Through award-winning multimedia content, instructional supports, and innovative classroom tools that are effective, engaging, and easy to use, Discovery Education helps educators deliver powerful learning experiences. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5 million educators and 45 million students worldwide, and its resources are accessed in over 100 countries and territories. Through partnerships with districts, states, and trusted organizations, Discovery Education empowers teachers with essential edtech solutions that inspire curiosity, build confidence, and accelerate learning. Learn more at www.discoveryeducation.com.  

Contact  
Stephen Wakefield  
Discovery Education  
Phone: 202-316-6615  
Email: swakefield@discoveryed.com 

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Research from the Education Insights 2025–2026: Fueling Learning Through Engagement report indicates that 87% of high school students think that career connections make classrooms engaging and over 93% of educators agree that student engagement is a critical metric for understanding overall achievement. To support the effort of making classrooms engaging by connecting instruction to potential future careers, Discovery Education offers the following learning resources:  

Futures Fair Event 
On November 5, 2025, from 10:30 AM to 2 PM ET, schools across the United States are invited to join the Futures Fair, a free event offering 30-minute interactive presentations from professionals across a range of industries. Organizations participating in the Futures Fair include 3M, ASME, Clayco, CVS Health, the Drug Enforcement Administration, Genentech, Hartford, Honda, Honeywell, Illumina, LIV Golf, Meta, Norton, Nucor, Polar Bears International, Prologis, The Home Depot, Verizon, and Warner Bros. Discovery. The presentations, as well as mentorship opportunities and standards-aligned hands-on activities, will give students new insights into potential career opportunities and the skills needed for future success in that field. 

Learn more and register for the Discovery Education Futures Fair at discoveryeducation.com/futures-fair. 

Immersive Learning 
Discover more free immersive learning resources from Discovery Education and partners here. 

• In Operation Communication, a new immersive game from the STEM Careers Coalition, students in grades 6-12 experience a day in the life of an employee in a simulated workplace, navigating production schedules, team dynamics, and customer satisfaction. Players practice a wide range of active skills with a focus on effective communication in the workplace to keep the production line running smoothly and create happy customers. Students can then use the new Career Finder tool to explore career pathways based on their interests. Powered by the STEM Careers Coalition, these resources help students find out about new careers and discover how classroom learning connects to real-world possibilities. The STEM Careers Coalition is an alliance of industries and non-profit organizations providing 15M+ students with equitable access to STEM resources and career connections since its launch in 2019. 

• TimePod Adventures in collaboration with Verizon utilizes state-of-the-art, life-size Augmented Reality that students can interact with and control from a web browser on any device. Guided by an AI-powered assistant and featuring grade-band specific lesson plans, students face challenges and solve problems. In addition, educators can find more research-backed insights in the recent Immersive Learning as an Instructional Game Changer white paper. 

• Salvage Safari is a free Roblox game created by Niagara Cares and Filament Games that empowers students in grades 3–8 to explore recycling through fast-paced missions across three vibrant biomes. Within Roblox, students build and upgrade custom robots, sort virtual waste, and uncover hidden quests.

Virtual Field Trips 
Discover more Discovery Education virtual field trips here or on the Virtual Field Trips channel in Discovery Education Experience. The latest include VFTs with partners such as Sesame Workshop, the U.S. National Science Foundation, Illumina, and more. 

• Careers at Sea and Shore: A Virtual Field Trip to Maritime Manufacturing Centers 
  Premieres: October 29, 2025 
  Grades 6-12 
  This virtual field trip shows students the world of innovative maritime manufacturing as they explore how submarines are built and the amazing careers of the individuals building them. Discover how the healthy, drug-free choices students make today can lead to meaningful and rewarding careers in the future – including the careers that create national security systems that can operate underwater. Featuring experts from Ocean Aero, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, this virtual field trip highlights the creative, real-world career pathways and technologies shaping the future of maritime manufacturing. This virtual field trip, funded through the DOW’s Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment Program, is connected to Operation Prevention, a program with the Drug Enforcement Administration providing no-cost online tools that support every member of the community with the power of prevention. 
  
• Amphibian Adventures: A Build the Change Virtual Field Trip to the Georgia Wetlands  
  Premieres: December 4, 2025 
  Grades 3-8 
  Join the LEGO Group and Discovery Education as we head to Jekyll Island and the Okefenokee Swamp to learn about the lifecycle and habitat of everyone’s favorite web-footed friend: frogs. As an indicator species, frogs can tell us a lot about the health of an entire ecosystem. “Hop” aboard a swamp boat to explore frog conservation efforts, including ways to help frogs in your community. This Virtual Field Trip is part of Build the Change, a program with the LEGO Group celebrating the power of play to boost learning and improve the world around you. 

Classroom Activities 

• The new Honda Safety in Action: From Racetrack to Roadway – It Takes All of Us is a two-part video series that brings professional racing into the classroom to help teach real-world safety habits. Featuringmotocross champions Jett and Hunter Lawrence and IndyCar driver Scott Dixon, the new video series demonstrates how advanced safety technologies connect to everyday choices, such as wearing a helmet, buckling up, and avoiding distractions. This resource is from Honda Safety Driven, a program with Honda. 

• With standards-aligned lesson plans and engaging student activities, educators can bring the lessons from the golf course to the classroom and beyond. These resources are from LIV to Learn, a program with LIV Golf, offering young people ages 11-14 and educators digital resources that explore STEM, life skills, and career opportunities, while also addressing topics of teamwork and sustainability. 

• With Science Fair Central – an initiative created in collaboration with The Home Depot® – educators and families discover over 100 science and engineering project starters, student planning guides, judging tools, and hands-on activities. The resources challenge students to design a device using magnetism to fish trash from local waterways, use characteristics of an armadillo’s shell to create an architectural design solution, build catapults and trebuchets for a physics class mini-challenge, experiment with materials to insulate and cool a beverage, and more. 

• With career inspiration profiles, students meet with STEM professionals at Itron as they share stories about careers making a difference in our world. Created with Itron, these resources are designed to help foster dialogue on the importance of energy and resource utilization. 

Discovery Education subscribers can find all this content and more within the following products: 

• Experience: Turn engaging content, such as virtual field trips and immersive learning content, into impactful classroom lessons with strategic, educator support through Discovery Education Experience, the essential classroom companion. These ready-to-teach lessons are easily accessible from the Sandbox Channel, Immersive Explorers Channel, and Virtual Field Trips Channel. STEM-focused resources encourage active student participation, critical thinking, and real-world application of knowledge while supporting educators with built-in instructional strategies and flexible teaching tools.  

• Career Connect: Available to all users of Discovery Education Experience, the award-winning Career Connect fosters student engagement by connecting classroom learning to real-world applications and potential careers. Through Career Connect, educators request virtual classroom visits from industry professionals from organizations – such as Genentech, Trane Technologies, Nucor – and can select from an array of job types, industries, languages, and locations to further personalize interactions. 

• Mystery Science: The STEM collection from Mystery Science offers a unique standards-aligned science curriculum for grades K-5 designed to help students stay curious. 

• Science Techbook: Built around engaging real-world phenomena and designed for real classrooms, Science Techbook is a core science curriculum that combines ready-to-teach science lessons, STEM careers,hands-on learning, and embedded literacy and math practice to help every student thrive.  

“STEM lessons are a powerful way to spark student curiosity by connecting classroom learning to the real world. National STEM Day is a great opportunity for educators to tap into students’ interest in STEM, and these curated resources from Discovery Education make it easy and fun to do so,” said Jamie Jenkins, Senior Director of Instructional Design at Discovery Education. 

For more information about Discovery Education’s award-winning digital resources and professional learning solutions, visit www.discoveryeducation.com, and stay connected with Discovery Education on social media through LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook.  

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About Discovery Education  
Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art, PreK-12, digital solutions help educators engage all students and support higher academic achievement. Through award-winning multimedia content, instructional supports, and innovative classroom tools that are effective, engaging, and easy to use, Discovery Education helps educators deliver powerful learning experiences. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5 million educators and 45 million students worldwide, and its resources are accessed in over 100 countries and territories. Through partnerships with districts, states, and trusted organizations, Discovery Education empowers teachers with essential edtech solutions that inspire curiosity, build confidence, and accelerate learning. Learn more at www.discoveryeducation.com.  

Contact  
Grace Maliska 
Discovery Education 
Email: gmaliska@discoveryed.com 

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