ILP Classroom Activities

The Individual Learning Plan, or ILP, is changing how students prepare for their futures. This resource features multiple activities to introduce students to the many features of the ILP.

ILP Completion Guide

The Individual Learning Plan, or ILP, is an online education planning tool that is changing how students prepare for their futures. This resource illustrates the sections of the ILP students in each grade are required to complete.

ILP Implementation Tools

The Individual Learning Plan, or ILP, is changing how students prepare for their futures. This resource includes multiple examples of implementation plans from schools throughout the state.

Integrated Instruction in Action

Danville High School teacher Laura Mason discusses her use of integrated, project-based instruction in her history classes.This article is part of KET's Social Studies/Arts Toolkit.

Integrating Social Studies and the Arts

This article explores integrating Social Studies and the arts, including sections on 21st century skills, team teaching, aligned content, and sample lessons.This article is part of KET's Social Studies/Arts Toolkit.

Integrating the Arts across the Curriculum

This lesson plan template supports teachers as they consider how to integrate the arts into instruction in all content areas.

Is Lactic Acid a Four Letter Word?

This essay by Patti and Warren Finke describes the process by which our bodies transform food energy into energy that our cells can use.

Jim Zwerg

In this interview transcript from People's Century, northern civil rights activist and Freedom Rider Jim Zwerg describes his experiences.

Kenneth Clark

In this transcript of an interview for Eyes on the Prize, psychologist Kenneth Clark describes his research that illustrated the impact of racism on African American children.

KET Social Studies Posters

The KET Social Studies posters provide an overview of the five “big ideas” that make up Kentucky’s K-12 social studies curriculum. These posters are appropriate for classroom display for both student and teacher reference. Each poster is available in two sizes and may be printed in color or black and white.

Ku Klux Klan Flyers

This flyer advertises a 1963 white supremacist Ku Klux Klan meeting; from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.

Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)

In this transcript of an interview recorded for Eyes on the Prize, Stokely Carmichael describes SNCC organizing campaigns and his views on "Black Power."

The Leaning Tower: Where It Stands Today

Will the Leaning Tower of Pisa give way to gravity? In this interview from the NOVA Web site, engineer John Burland relates the difficult job of saving the tower.

Life's Grand Design

Are nature's complex forms evidence of "intelligent design"? In this Evolution essay, biologist Kenneth Miller explains how the processes of evolution account for complex structures such as the human eye.

Life's Little Essential: Liquid Water

Why is water necessary for life? Why is it the best and possibly only liquid to do the job? This illustrated essay from NOVA Online answers these questions, explaining why planetary scientists are on the lookout for water elsewhere in the solar system.

Life Stages Cards

All animals develop and grow over time. The animals in this document undergo one of the most dramatic developmental processes known: metamorphosis. See if you can place the developmental stages in their proper order.

March on Washington Flyers

These 1963 flyers announce the speakers and issues for the March on Washington; from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.

Mike Novacek: Fossils in the Gobi

Biologist Mike Novacek discusses his discovery of mammal fossils in the Gobi Desert and what we can learn from them. From Evolution: "Extinction!"

Mitochondria

Often referred to as the powerhouses of the cell, mitochondria provide the energy that powers nearly every cellular process. This essay by John Ross describes in detail the structures and functions of these amazing organelles.

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Mitochondria Functions and Training

This essay by Owen Anderson describes the effects of physical exercise on the number and function of mitochondria inside muscle cells.