Three Days of "AHA!" Moments
Inspiring the Future of Texas Science Education 🧪
Get ready for three action-packed days with Discovery Education at CAST 2025, where Texas science teaching comes to life!
Dive into inspiring sessions that spark curiosity, fuel learning, and empower you to bring real-world science into every classroom. Hear powerful stories from Texas educators, explore hands-on strategies you can put into practice immediately, and see how our TEKS-aligned Science Ecosystem helps every student explore, discover, and thrive.
Let’s ignite learning that lasts a lifetime!
Fuel Your Passion for Science in Dallas Ballroom D2 🔬
Discover how our dynamic Science Ecosystem brings standards-aligned, phenomena-based teaching to life in Texas classrooms. Each session is packed with practical strategies, powerful district success stories, and ready-to-use tools designed to inspire curiosity and elevate science learning for every student.
Beyond the Classroom Walls: A Hands-On Immersive Playground
Hosts: Jamie Long, Julie Price, & Kyle Perri, Discovery Education
What if your students could blaze the Oregon Trail, journey through deep space, or dig into the layers of the Earth, all from your classroom or campus devices? At Discovery Education’s immersive playground, you’ll explore interactive stations designed to show how Discovery Education Experience brings learning to life through engaging, tech-powered experiences. Come see, play, and imagine how these dynamic, student-centered tools can spark curiosity, deepen understanding, and transform learning across your district or campus.
Dallas Ballroom D2Lab Chats with Discovery Education
Hosts: The Discovery Education Texas Team
Take a moment during CAST to step into the “lab” for conversation and collaboration! Lab Chats offers a relaxed space to connect with our Educational Partnerships & Partner Success team to explore Discovery Education’s resources and get personalized support for your goals. Whether you’re looking for new strategies, planning initiatives, or sharing your ideas, we’re here to support you and spark what’s next in science learning.
Leading the Way in Elementary Science: A Collaborative Discussion
Host: Logan Damoth, Discovery Education
Join fellow elementary science leaders for an interactive discussion where ideas come to life and science learning takes center stage. Through collaborative dialogue and shared strategies, you’ll explore new ways to engage young learners, support teachers, and build a strong foundation in science. Leave inspired with practical strategies, fresh perspectives, and meaningful connections to elevate science across your schools and district.
Two Hats, One Mission: Marrying Reading and Science in the Elementary Classroom
Presenters: Mary Swinton, Plano ISD & Evan Sanchez, Discovery Education
Elementary science means wearing two hats—you are both a science teacher and a reading teacher. While experiments spark curiosity, real understanding depends on literacy. This session shows how strategies like analyzing, inferring, and synthesizing connect to science skills such as predicting and evaluating evidence. Explore Tier 1 ideas, small group routines, and station activities that blend investigation with literacy. Leave with ready-to-use tools to help students grow as readers and scientists.
Can You Escape the Discovery Education Room? 🔍
Hosts: The Discovery Education Texas Team
Can your team beat the clock? In this hands-on escape room experience, you’ll follow clues, crack codes, and collaborate to “escape” before time runs out. Along the way, see how Discovery Education’s Science Ecosystem brings the same excitement, inquiry, and problem-solving skills into classrooms, engaging students while fostering critical thinking, collaboration, and a love of learning.
Ignite Ideas, Inspire Action: A Secondary Science Leadership Discussion
Host: Evan Sanchez, Discovery Education
Join fellow secondary science leaders for an engaging, participant-driven discussion designed to spark innovation and elevate science learning. Through open dialogue and collaborative discussion, you’ll explore strategies, share best practices, and gain actionable insights to strengthen science education across your district. Connect, collaborate, and leave inspired to turn ideas into meaningful impact.
Let’s Give Them Something to Talk About: Sparking Student Discourse in Science
Presenter: Jamie Long, Discovery Education
What happens when secondary students—not teachers—take the lead in science discussions? In this interactive session, explore talk moves, scaffolds, and strategies that spark meaningful discourse. We will take a peek at the research behind Instructional Strategies and what it says we should see in classrooms? You’ll gain protocols and engagement techniques to help students articulate reasoning, challenge ideas respectfully, and connect concepts to their own lives—building deeper scientific understanding together.
From Classroom to Career: A Guided Adventure with Career Connect & Careers Hub
Host: Kristi Olmsted, Discovery Education
Take your students on an unforgettable journey from the classroom to the workplace! In this interactive session, you’ll explore Discovery Education’s Career Connect, where live conversations with industry experts bring career paths to life, alongside Careers Hub, a one-stop resource for workforce exploration and readiness. Learn how to spark engagement, foster future-ready skills, and inspire every learner to imagine and achieve their dream job.
☕The Science Café: Connect and Energize with Discovery Education
Hosts: The Discovery Education Texas Team
Refuel with coffee, snacks, and a spark of curiosity! The Science Café is your opportunity to connect with the Discovery Education team, engage with fellow educators, and share ideas in a relaxed, welcoming space. Recharge, explore new strategies, and leave inspired with fresh insights to energize learning in your classrooms and across your campus.
Step Into a World of Science Innovation
at Booth #706 ✨
Thursday, November 13 – Saturday, November 15
Explore hands-on experiences that bring real-world science to life and dive into our cutting-edge science solutions and award-winning K-12 learning platform.
Uncover fresh, dynamic approaches to inspire your students and make science more engaging, exciting, and impactful than ever before!
Discover Science in Action at Our Booth Sessions!
- Thursday, November 13 | 12:00 PM, 1:00 PM, 2:00 PM, 3:00 PM
- Friday, November 14 | 10:00 AM, 11:00 AM, 2:00 PM, 3:00 PM
Exhibit Hall Hours
- Thursday, November 13 | 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Friday, November 14 | 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Saturday, November 15 | 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Meet the PreK–12 Texas Science Ecosystem
Discovery Education Experience
Your Daily Classroom Companion
Full of cross-curricular digital resources, grab-and-go activities, and instructional tools, Experience helps create connections between the digital and real worlds to strengthen science instruction.
Science Techbook for Texas
A Comprehensive Science Curriculum
Science Techbook for Texas invites students to explore the marvels of our world with an immersive, phenomena-driven, 100% TEKS-aligned science curriculum designed to bring the excitement of science to life.
Mystery Science
A “Wow” Learning Experience
Keep curiosity alive when it matters most with hands-on lessons and step-by-step activities that are packaged in an easy-to-use, open-and-go curriculum.
