KET Tools For K-5 Schools
Jump Start Learning with KET Media Resources and Services
Overview of KET's Services
To followup on our recent contact I wanted to share these resources from our KET PBS Learning Media services plus stand-alone sites that can help make the concepts you are presenting come alive and engage your students in fun and exciting ways. I also wanted to make sure you were aware of the professional development opportunities that KET offers. Take time to explore and enjoy these resources! Remember that probably the biggest change in services is that the PBS LearningMedia site has been completely redesigned and the new site was just launched so check it out!
Remember that I can come to your school and conduct onsite trainings for teachers and students on PBS Learning Media, Media Arts, and media careers related topics.
For more information or assistance regarding any KET service or feature, contact me at Lmoore@ket.org or via phone at: 1-800-432-0981 Ext. 7127
KET.org/education
Check it out at www.ket.org/education
Below this entry are some examples of some of our newest and most used resources found on this site.
2018-19 KET Education Resources Book
PBS LearningMedia Service
This is the destination for high-quality, trusted, digital content and solutions that inspire students and transform learning. The site has undergone a very recent redesign making it very user friendly. Check out the thousands of easily searchable resources mapped to state and national standards. And use the favorites, folders, Storyboard and other dashboard features to curate your favorite resources and to create presentations and assignments.
KET Professional Development Opportunities
To access our online PD offerings, go to this link: PD offerings.
Administrators and SBDM members may be interested in our newest offering on the role of the FRYSC in Kentucky Schools. Here is a link to that specific training.
KET Young Writers Contest
KET Young Writers Contest: Each spring this annual contest encourages creative expression and literacy development by inviting students in kindergarten through twelfth grade to submit original illustrated stories, short stories and poetry.This year, we received more than 1,200 submissions, representing more than 280 schools from 17 states.
Students from Kentucky who win prizes can have them be awarded in person by KET Education Consultants.
KET Media Lab and School Video Project
KET Media Lab Workshops
KET offers free workshops in multimedia production and related topics for Kentucky students and educators in the Media Lab at the KET Network Center in Lexington. Join us in the lab to explore how to make project-based learning exciting and meaningful with multimedia tools and resources! Explore using iPads, iPhones, and apps to make classroom multimedia projects, introduce students to Minecraft educational gaming; try KET’s online classroom resources. Enjoy a free Media Lab workshops, then stay for a career-readiness tour of KET’s multimedia production facility!
Once your students get back to school maybe they will want to work on a multimedia production to turn into KET's Video Project. The theme of 2017-18's project challenge is: How Do You See the Future? For full details and criteria about the project and how to upload your videos click here.
Join other students across Kentucky and the United States for News Quiz, KET’s weekly current events show. Targeted to grades 4-8, this kid-friendly, interactive program features a 10-question quiz based on each week’s stories. Check out the website for details and links to the latest shows here.
KET Arts Toolkit videos now on PBSLM
KET has created five toolkits in these arts categories: Visual Arts, Music, Dance, Drama, and Social Studies Arts. The videos for all of these kits are on PBS Learning Media. Click on the titles above to go to the specific collection. . Through demonstrations, performances and artist interviews, these collections represents a wide variety of cultural references, techniques, performances, and artworks in a variety of media. KET continues to add new resourcs to this impressive collection.
Video Production: Behind the Scenes with the Pros
Kentucky Bio
(Grades 4-6) This eBook created by KET is full of interactives and videos and teaches students about the natural diversity of life in the state of Kentucky.
(Grades Pre-K-2) Everyday Learning is a large collection of KET produced Early Childhood video and interactive multimedia resources divided into:
Everyday Science, Everyday Math, Healthy Me, All Around Me, and Art To Heart. Click here to go to the whole collection. Onsite and regional trainings are available in the facilitation of these resources and other PBS resources. For more information about these PD opportunities click here.
(Grades 3-5) This is a wonderful collection of 18 videos that teach natural science and economics concepts through the theme of gardening. This fun series uses children narrators, rhyming narration, and a combination of live action, stop action, and computer animations.
Understanding Fairy Tales Old and New
(Grades 3-5)
is a collection of digital resources that zero in on three different English Language Arts curriculum standards for grades 3, 4, and 5 that address characters’ traits and motivations in works of literature. The resources focus around modern retellings of old stories and fairy tales that may be familiar to learners. Included in this collection are videos for students, print outs of the original tales, as well as “Guided Viewing” videos designed to help parents talk about these English Language Arts concepts with their children.
A World of Stories
Storytelling has been used as entertainment, cultural preservation, and a way to teach values. Stories are typically told orally and passed down from generation to generation. This collection contains stories from around the world.
KET Exploraciones
(PreK-12)
is a collection of resources for teaching Spanish in the elementary grades. The collection includes the ¡Arte y más! video series and themed units featuring a variety of video segments, animations, lesson plans, activity ideas, and other materials for teaching students. These materials range from those used with students with no experience all the way up to novice-mid to novice-high levels as defined by the Kentucky World Language Proficiency Standards.
Think Math
(Grades 5-8)
Designed to appeal to diverse learners, these entertaining, imaginative resources from KET include standards-based interactives and videos.The collection includes 43 KET-produced resources from Math at the Core: Middle School, Scale City videos and interactives about proportional reasoning, Wild Fractions animations and games, Logical Leaps interactives about number lines, and Maritime Mysteries interactives involving Cartesian graphs.
Math and Arts
(PreK-13+)
This collection of lesson plans uses dance, drama, music, and visual arts to teach math concepts.
Sci Girls Profiles: Women in STEM
(Grades 5-13)
Sci Girls: Kate Heckam-Firefighter/Paramedic
This video is from the series SciGirls Profiles: Women in STEM, which in turn is part of the larger SciGirls Collection. This "sub-collection" includes 12 role model videos of women passionate about their STEM work, hobbies, families and making the world a better place. The
videos introduce students to women working in traditionally male STEM jobs, and inspire them to explore careers in fields like technology, engineering, manufacturing and trades. Each video provides strategies for overcoming barriers and finding success and joy in fields where women are heavily underrepresented. For access to the entire wonderful SciGirls collection click here: SciGirls