Exploring the Depths! The KET’s Online Resources

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Your Presenter today is: Larry Moore

Today’s presentation is practically paper-free!For complete information about the resources presented today, go to this website: http://www.lmooreketresources.wikispaces.com

Exploring the Depths! KET’s Online Resources

Goals of today’s training:• To learn about the new KET Teacher’s Domain, a media powerhouse• To explore KET’s latest specialized websites• To become more aware of KET’s other educator resources and services

Exploring the Depths! KET’s Online Resources

WWW.KET.ORG/EDUCATION

Let’s Explore!Let’s Explore!

Specialized KET Instructional Websiteswww.ket.org/education

• KET Electronic Field Trips: www.ket.org/trips

• NewsQuiz: http://www.ket.org/newsquiz

• Lincoln “ I Too am a Kentuckian”: http://www.ket.org/lincoln/

• Kentucky’s National Parks: http://www.ket.org/nationalparks/

• KET Arts Page: http://www.ket.org/arts/

• Education Matters: http://www.ket.org/educationmatters/

Arts on KET

Scale City: The Road to Proportional Reasoning

www.scalecity.org• A virtual tour of Kentucky sites related to the

mathematics of scale, from Dinosaur World to the big bat at the Louisville Slugger Museum

• Interactives to help middle school students explore and practice mathematics skills

• Lesson plans, classroom handouts, assessments, resources, and vocabulary

• Available free to Kentucky schools on CD-ROM or online

• There is now an accompanying PD module entitled : Using Scale City to Teach Proportional Reasoning

KET Health Initiative Programs KET Health Initiative Programs

WWW.KET.ORG/HEALTHWWW.KET.ORG/HEALTH

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KET Teachers’ Domain• An online library of more than

2,5000 free media resources including videos, interactives, and lesson plans from the best in public television, featuring media from NOVA, Frontline, Design Squad, and American Experience plus original KET productions!

• KET has its own customized look and format, and resources will be aligned with Kentucky education standards.

KET Teachers’ Domain

New features in Teacher’s Domain:• My Folders• My Groups• My Profile•Sharing feature through email, Twitter, Facebook• New KET series- 1.Water Solutions2.Everyday Science3.Senate Bill 1: Transforming Education in Kentucky4.Teaching Proportional Reasoning Using KET’s Scale City

Water SolutionsBrief online video collections onnon-point-source water pollution:

• Bernheim Forest (Grades 4-12)

Travel to the Bernheim Forest Visitor Center, a LEED-certified green structure designed to conserve and protect water, and see a stream restoration site and a Cypress-Tupelo swamp.

• Acid Mine Drainage (Grades 6-12)

Visit southeastern Kentucky to learn about water pollution from abandoned coal mines and how biologists, hydrologists, chemists, and geologists are reversing its damaging effects.

KET Everyday Science

Social Studies ResourceMission US: For Crown or Colony (Gr. 5-8)

www.ket.org/missionus/