KET Tools For Middle School
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. Please note that the PBS LearningMedia website has been completely redesigned as of September 4th and has a lot of cool new design features. 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 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
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 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!
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.
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.
Mission US
The latest game, "Up From the Dust" is currently available for the iPad and on PC Windows 10 machines.
Go to www.mission-us.org to check out this incredible teaching tool!
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.
Murals of the Holocaust
Grades-6-12
For over 20 years, a summer program for gifted students at W.K.U. has offered an arts-integrated history course on Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. The course concludes with students working as a group to create a large mural on the Holocaust.These murals went on a traveling display in Kentucky to engage a broader audience on the topic. In this video collection, hear the stories of a Holocaust survivor and the son of a Holocaust survivor who are involved with the program, learn how students in the program decided on a theme for their mural, and how one teacher incorporates the arts into Holocaust history lessons.
Nova's The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers
The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers
Wish more of your students saw science and engineering as career possibilities? The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers can help. This Emmy-nominated web-series from NOVA. profiles today’s leading scientists—and shows what they’re like when the lab coats come off—letting viewers see a human side of science that many students can relate to.
Media Arts: Illuminated Art
(Grades K-12)
The City of Cincinnati, Ohio converted twenty blocks into the BLINK festival of art and light, showcasing projection mapping along with other emerging media art forms. The goal was to create a public event celebrating the arts, culture, and creativity of the city in an atmosphere that promoted audience interaction with dynamic art.
Bringing the Universe to America's Classrooms (BUAC) collection
BUAC
This collection for K-12 is a collaboration between NASA and WGBH. Explore rich digital media resources for teaching topics in K–12 earth and space science. These free resources emphasize student engagement with the core ideas and practices of the NGSS and are supported by rich contextual materials.
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.
Math at the Core Middle School
(Grades 6-8)
Math at the Core Middle School
Find engaging media and integrated activities, all aligned with the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics. Designed for middle school students of diverse learning styles and backgrounds.