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Planet Earth Education Edition Honored with 2008 Distinguished Achievement Award

Discovery Education Earns Four Awards from Association of Educational Publishers

Silver Spring, MD (June 9, 2008) – On June 6, Discovery Education’s outstanding Planet Earth Education Edition was honored by The Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) with a 2008 Distinguished Achievement Award. The AEP is a national, nonprofit professional organization for educational publishers and content developers.

The Planet Earth Education Edition combines the highly acclaimed Planet Earth series from Discovery Channel with a variety of educational resources. The DVD set includes 14 programs chaptered into core-concept clips, including Pole to Pole, Fresh Water, The Future: Saving Species, Deserts and more. In addition, the set includes more than 30 teacher’s guides spanning grades 3-12. Each guide provides educators with learning objectives, discussion questions, academic standards, and more than 30 writing prompts to spur student cr eativity. The package also contains 11 animal guides and posters in PDF format, sized for printing-on-demand. Planet Earth also is available online through Discovery Education streaming Plus.

“The Planet Earth series is a stunning piece of media, documenting the places, animals and environments that make the natural world just awesome,” said Kelli Campbell, Discovery Education Senior Vice President of Content and Product Development. “The teacher resources that accompany this series connects essential concepts to topics in science, social studies and the humanities, promoting critical thinking and developing a cross-curricular framework for instruction. Discovery Education is very honored that the Association of Educational Publishers has highlighted the Planet Earth Education Edition with this award.”

Discovery Education Health and the Allstate ‘Drive It Right’ program were also honored with Distinguished Achievement awards, while Discovery Educati on’s Corporate Brochure received a Beacon Award.

‘Drive It Right’ is a powerful video that delivers the important message of teen safe driving – from teens who have firsthand experience with car crashes. The DVD was used in a co-branded Discovery Education and Allstate campaign to promote safe driving practices.

Discovery Education Health is an online health and prevention resource for K-12 educators. Offering 16 curriculum programs that cover nine key topic areas as well as a collection of videos, lessons, teacher's guides and worksheets, Discovery Education Health is currently used in classrooms nationwide.

The 2008 Discovery Education Corporate Brochure is a marketing piece that provides a clear overview of all services that the company offers to educators and administrators and highlights the key benefits these solutions provide to potential customers.

A complete list of AEP award winners can be found at http://www.aepweb.org/awards/curricwin.htm.

For more information about Discovery Education and its services, visit www.discoveryeducation.com, or call 800-323-9084.

For more information on Discovery Education streaming, or any other products and services from Discovery Education, please visit www.discoveryeducation.com or call 800-323-9084.

About Discovery Education
Discovery Communications revolutionized television with the Discovery Channel and is now transforming classrooms through Discovery Education. Powered by the #1 non-fiction media company in the world, Discovery Education combines scientifically proven, standards-based digital media and a dynamic user community in order to empower teachers to improve student achievement. Already, mor e than half of all U.S. schools access Discovery Education digital services. Explore the future of education at www.discoveryeducation.com.