Classroom Tips

From managing the technology to tips for transporting video files, this resource offers practical advice and strategies for video use.

Explicit Lesson Plan

An example of a lesson plan.

Introduction to Teachers' Domain Workshop

This workshop introduces the Teachers' Domain Web site, including how to register and how to find, select, and use the online resources.

Kentucky System of Interventions

This resource provides an overview of the Kentucky System of Interventions (KSI) to assist schools and districts as they develop systems of interventions for their students.

Effective Video-Based Lessons

We offer you some hints, gathered over long experience of helping educators integrate video into their teaching, about how to make the most of VITAL video in your lessons.

Kentucky Literacy Resources by Standard

A collection of resources detailing literacy standards for all grade levels in Kentucky.

Using Teachers' Domain in the Classroom Workshop

This workshop introduces teachers to strategies for using Teachers' Domain resources in the classroom.

Phonemic Awareness Screen

A guide to identifying and understanding phonemes.

Technology Guide to Teachers' Domain Workshop

This workshop provides instructions and tips for accessing media files on Teachers’ Domain.

Tricks of the Trade

This document shows you how to capture and edit still images from a video segment, using either a PC or a Macintosh computer.

Scale City: FAQs and Media List

This PDF answers questions teachers may have about Using Scale City To Teach Proportional Reasoning, including contact information. It also includes a Media List with the times of all the videos in the teaching modules that may be used to help plan a group professional development event around Using Scale City.

Phonics Screen

An in-depth phonics screen guide.

Using Folders and Groups Workshop

This workshop shows how to use the "My Folders" and "My Groups" features on Teachers' Domain.

Creating User-Generated Media Workshop

This workshop introduces ways to use Teachers' Domain media to produce videos.

Phonics Screen - Student Materials

A student worksheet for working with phonics.

Building Video Literacy: Types of Shots

This resource will help you and your students understand how analyzing video is similar to reading texts.

Procedures for Measuring Oral Reading Fluency

Examples of how to measure oral reading fluency in students.

Tunneling for Water: Teacher Materials

This PDF is a booklet developed by Louisville Water Company for use with Tunneling for Water. It includes standards correlations, background information and graphics related to the water company’s riverbank filtration project and the geology of the Ohio River, vocabulary, prompts, and activities.

Building Video Literacy: Storyboarding

In this activity developed by EDC's Center for Children and Technology, students explore the relationship between types of shots and storytelling.

Professional Learning Plan

The Kentucky Department of Education has designed professional learning resources to help schools work through the process of building and evaluating a high-impact professional learning plan.

Building Video Literacy: Framing

In this activity created by EDC's Center for Children and Technology, students explore how the framing of a shot affects the meaning of an image.

Acid Mine Drainage: General Level Background Essays

These two background essays provide general information about acid mine drainage (AMD) for grades 6-12. The first explores how AMD is formed and its environmental impact, and the second focuses on the chemical processes involved in AMD. They can be shared with students or used as a reference by teachers.

Bernheim Forest: Background Essays

These two essays provide background information for grades 4-12 about water conservation and preservation at Bernheim Forest. The first essay describes the water-friendly features of the Bernheim Visitor Center, and the second describes two restoration projects undertaken at the forest.

Visual Supports

A fact sheet for understanding visual supports.

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Acid Mine Drainage: Advanced Level Background Essay

This background essay for high school chemistry explores the chemical processes that underlie the problem of acid mine drainage and includes detailed equations representing these processes. It can be shared with students or used as a reference by teachers.

Bernheim Forest Discussion Questions

This PDF combines all discussion questions from the eight “Bernheim Forest” videos into a single document for teachers to download and print.

Vocabulary Activities

A worksheet with ideas for activities to guide student learning of vocabulary.

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Acid Mine Drainage Discussion Questions

This PDF combines all discussion questions from the eight “Acid Mine Videos” pages into a single convenient document that teachers can easily download and print. The discussion questions are divided into three levels: General (6-12), Intermediate (9-12), and Advanced (High School Chemistry).

Bernheim Forest Graphic Handouts

This set of five graphic handouts illustrate concepts from the eight “Bernheim Forest” videos including the design of the green roof, the cistern, and the peat filtration system as well as mycoremediation to offset oil and gasoline pollution and restoring a creek to its original meander.

Acid Mine Drainage Quantitative Questions, Advanced Level

This handout for high school chemistry students is divided into general, intermediate, and advanced problems that require students to balance chemical equations, write equilibrium expressions, and answer other quantitative questions related to acid mine drainage.

Bernheim Forest Glossary

This glossary provides definitions for scientific and technical terms used in the eight “Bernheim Forest” videos.

Acid Mine Drainage Glossary

This glossary provides definitions for scientific and technical terms used in the eight “Acid Mine Drainage” videos.

Acid Mine Drainage Lesson Plans, Grades 6-9

These two physical science/chemistry lesson plans for grades 6-9 are both lab activities. One involves using acid/base indicators to test the acidity or alkalinity of common household chemicals, and the other involves testing how different factors affect the solubility of substances in water.

Acid Mine Drainage Graphic Handouts

This set of four graphic handouts illustrate important concepts from the eight “Acid Mine Drainage” videos: the pH of water, what the term “logarithmic scale” means relative to pH, how raising pH causes metal ions to fall out of solution, and an acid mine drainage remediation system.

1900 Air Pollution

Examine this graph from FRONTLINE/NOVA: "What's Up with the Weather?" Web site to see dramatic increases in three greenhouse gases over the last two hundred years.

The Advantage of Sex

Why did sex evolve? The likely answers, in this essay for the Evolution Web site by science journalist Matt Ridley, may surprise you.

Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights Scrapbook

These materials document the goals and activities of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights; from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.

Amazing Heart Facts

This feature from the NOVA "Cut to the Heart" Web site highlights facts about the heart -- including its size and placement -- and will help you to understand the importance of this wondrous organ in our bodies.

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Animal Body Plans: Homeobox Genes

The homeobox genes that define the basic body plan of mice and fruit flies are illustrated in this graphic from The Human Evolution Coloring Book by Adrienne Zihlman. The accompanying article describes how these genes act as "molecular architects" in all animal species.

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Astronauts in Hard Hats

This media-rich series of interviews from the NOVA Web site explores the unique challenges faced by astronauts doing construction work in outer space.

Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels

Earth is warming because of an increase in greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide (CO₂). Explore what can be done to slow or stop continued climate change.

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Atmospheric Pressure

Did you know that air has weight? This illustrated essay from the NOVA Web site explores conditions that affect air density and atmospheric pressure.

Bayard Rustin

This transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize documents the leadership strategies of March on Washington organizer Bayard Rustin.

The Beginnings of the Telescope

This animated essay from the NOVA Web site examines the design of Galileo's refracting telescope and Sir Isaac Newton's reflecting telescope.

Buoyancy Basics

This illustrated demonstration from the NOVA Web site explains the concepts of buoyancy and density by showing what happens when different kinds of wood blocks are dropped in water.

Burke Marshall

Assistant Attorney General Burke Marshall, in this transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize, remembers mediating the 1962 desegregation of the University of Mississippi.

Calculator Handbook

A CASIO fx-260 scientific calculator is provided for use on the first part of the GED^® Mathematics Test. This calculator handbook provides explanations and directions for each of the keys that is needed for the GED Mathematics Test.

Facilitator’s Guide for Program Director’s Orientation, ELA

These resources provide program directors with an overview of the first year of a three year professional development plan that is based on Kentucky Adult Education’s Common Core Standards.

Chernobyl: What Really Happened?

This text excerpted from Richard Rhodes' book, Nuclear Renewal and reprinted on the FRONTLINE Web site examines the causes of the Chernobyl accident.

Chris Schneider: Rethinking Conservation

In this interview filmed for Evolution: "Darwin's Dangerous Idea," biologist Chris Schneider discusses the relationship between conservation and speciation.