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Exploring the Depths! The KET’s Online Resources. v. v. v. Exploring the Depths! KET’s Online Resources. Your Presenter today is: Larry Moore. Today’s presentation is practically paper-free!
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Exploring the Depths! KET’s Online Resources 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
Let’s Explore! WWW.KET.ORG/EDUCATION
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 Reasoningwww.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 WWW.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- • Water Solutions • Everyday Science • Senate Bill 1: Transforming Education in Kentucky • Teaching Proportional Reasoning Using KET’s Scale City
Water Solutions Brief online video collections on non-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.
Social Studies ResourceMission US: For Crown or Colony (Gr. 5-8) www.ket.org/missionus/