KET Tools For High 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. First of all, just a reminder that on September 4th, PBS LearningMedia launched a completely redesigned site! This new interface is much more user friendly than the old one so take time to explore and enjoy these resources and realize they are just a few of the amazing resources available through PBS Learning Media. With tens of thousands of resources you have a lot to choose from! I also wanted to make sure you were aware of the professional development opportunities that KET offers and so have provided links to some of those as well.
Keep in mind 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 Young Writers Contest
This annual contest encourages creative expression and literacy development by inviting students to submit original illustrated stories, short stories and poetry (categories determined by grade level). This is the first year the contest has been opened up to grades 9-12 in addition to the K-8 grades it has traditionally served. Students get the opportunity to write for an authentic audience and to be rewarded for their efforts. Complete information will be sent out a little later in the year but I can go on and reveal that the contest will open for entries on January 2nd and the last day entries can be postmarked to be submitted will be April 15th.
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
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!
Mission US
- This fantastically designed gaming site for Gr. 4-12 created by WNET: New York, provides teachers and students free access to five virtual explorations of different periods in American History: the time right before the Revolutionary War; the underground railroad and events leading up to the Civil War; Westward Expansion seen through the eyes of a Native American; one on immigration, industrialization, and the labor movement in the early 1900., and just unveiled, one on The dust bowl and Great Depression. Hundreds of pages per game of teacher materials plus libraries of primary source documents, make these games into powerful teaching tools.
- The Crown or Colony game has just been converted from Flash and updated and is not available to be used on iPad and Windows PC machines.
- 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!
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
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 Collection (BUAC)
Explore rich digital media resources from NASA and WGBH 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.
Murals of the Holocaust
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.
Who, Me? Biased?: Understanding Implicit Bias
Who, Me? Biased?: Understanding Implicit Bias
(Grades 9-12)
In this interactive lesson, based on the series, POV; students explore the extent to which society (and they themselves) may discriminate based on factors they’re not even aware of, implicit biases. The existence of this phenomenon explains why it takes more than just anti-descrimination laws to create a just society.
Elements of Poetry
(Grades 6-12)
In this interactive lesson, Through a close reading of Maya Angelou’s famous poem “Caged Bird” (1983), students practice unpacking the language of poetry while learning about some of the various tools a writer can utilize when writing a poem.
Nova's The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers
The Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers
(Grades 6-12)
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.