Model Lesson: Using a Graphic Organizer

Adult education instructor Duane Lambert completes a graphic organizer using learners’ persuasive arguments.

Model Lesson: Using Music to Make a Connection

Adult education instructor Duane Lambert uses a song to demonstrate techniques of persuasion.

Model Lesson: Working In Groups

Adult education instructor Duane Lambert uses small groups to formulate arguments for and against a specific issue.

Native American Culture: Cherokee Beaver Dance

The Raven Rock Dancers perform the Beaver Dance, a social dance depicting the actions of a hunting party, at the 2006 Festival of Native Peoples. The Raven Rock Dancers is a family group founded by Walker Calhoun, a respected Cherokee elder.

Native American Culture: About Apache Dances

The Apache Crown Dancers are enrolled members of the White Mountain Apache Tribe and live in Whiteriver, Ariz. In this video segment, the group leader, Joe Tohonnie, Jr., talks about the long history of the dance and its role in Apache culture as the dancers perform Crown Dances.

Native American Culture: About Cherokee Dance

John Bullet Standingdeer is a member of the Warriors of AniKituhwa of Cherokee, North Carolina. In this video, he describes the cultural importance of the ceremonial Eagle Dance, performed by the Warriors of AniKituhwa, and the social Beaver Dance, performed by the Raven Rock Dancers.

Native American Culture: About Git-Hoan Dances

David Boxley of the Git-Hoan Dancers discusses dance traditions of the Tsimshian, whose descendants live on the Northwest coast of northern British Columbia and in southeastern Alaska. He discusses the use of masks and other handmade regalia in the dances.

Native American Culture: About Navajo Dances

Albert Brent Chase, artistic director of The Pollen Trail Dancers, explains the purposes of dance in Navajo culture.

Native American Culture: Apache Dance Performance

The Apache Crown Dancers are enrolled members of the White Mountain Apache Tribe and live in Whiteriver, Ariz. In this video segment, they perform a traditional Crown Dance in full regalia to music sung by the group leader, Joe Tohonnie, Jr.

Native American Culture: Cherokee Singer

Cherokee singer Paula Nelson performs a learning song that teaches a greeting and farewell in Cherokee. In the second part of the segment, Nelson says that the Cherokee people are a “water people” and performs a song called “It’s Going to Rain.”

Native American Culture: Git-Hoan Chief's Headdress Dance

Three dancers of the Git-Hoan troupe perform the Chief’s Headdress Dance celebrating the meaning found in the leader’s ceremonial headwear. The Git-Hoan are descendants of the Tsimshian people of northwest Canada and Alaska.

Native American Culture: Git-Hoan Raven Dance

The Git-Hoan Dancers perform the Raven Dance, a celebration of the Raven Clan. They wear masks representing the clan. In Tsimshian culture, the wearer of a mask is said to take on the spirit of the creature it signifies.

Native American Culture: Little Deer and Mother Earth

Marilou Awiakta, of Cherokee/Appalachian heritage, tells a traditional Cherokee story in which humans are killing too many of their animal relatives, threatening the delicate balance of nature. Little Deer leads the animals in taking action, teaching the lesson that people should take “only what you need with respect and gratitude.”

Native American Culture: Navajo Shaker Dance

The Pollen Trail Dancers perform the Navajo Shaker Dance, also called the Buffalo Dance. Artistic director Albert Brent Chase explains that the Shaker or Buffalo Dance is a healing dance that is part of the Fire Dance Ceremony, which lasts nine nights.

Native American Culture: The Dreamcatcher

Susan Mullins (Kwaronhia:wi), a Mohawk from the Kahnawake reserve in Canada who now resides in Berea, Ky., shows her grandchildren how to create a dreamcatcher, an item designed to catch bad dreams and let good dreams through.

Native American Culture: Truman Lowe: Contemporary Native American Artist

Truman Lowe is a contemporary sculptor working primarily in wood that he often scavenges from the landscape. This segment is from the KET documentary From the Shadows of the River, which chronicles Lowe’s visit to Wickliffe Mounds and his creation of a sculpture inspired by the rich heritage of the place.

Native American Culture: Truman Lowe at Wickliffe Mounds

In this video segment, contemporary Native American artist Truman Lowe discusses his visit to an ancient Native American community in Western Kentucky, Wickliffe Mounds, and how it influenced his work. The segment also includes a tour of art works at the Eagle Gallery at Murray State University.

Native American Culture: Zuni Harvest Dance

Instructor Arden Kucate gives background on the Zuni culture and the harvest celebration, explains the significance of Zuni boys being presented gourd shakers, and teaches a group of middle school students two dances from the Zuni harvest celebration.

Pixels and Pigments

This original animation from KET illustrates the mathematics of creating color in individual pixels in a television or computer screen. Adjusting the values of red, green, and blue forms different colors.

Points of Origin

This KET animation illustrates positive and negative measurement on a straight line and on a flat plane using a point of origin.

Publishing Genome Research

Watch how NJ high school students apply basic principles of molecular biology to solve real research problems, and publish their own genome research at GenBank — the international genomic sequence database.

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Quantus

This original animation from KET introduces Pythagoras’ belief that “all is number.” The virtual world of computer animation shows how the movement and shape of computer characters can be described with numbers, or “quantified.”

Radioactivity iLab

This video from Northwestern University Office of STEM Education Partnerships tours its interactive Radioactivity iLab, in which students are able to perform experiments on remote laboratory equipment.

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Restoration of the American Chestnut

This KET video segment from Kentucky Life describes how scientists control pollination of one of the few remaining American chestnut trees to develop blight resistant trees.

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The Scientific Method

In this video, scientists discuss how they do their work by using the Scientific Method.

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Standard Lab Operating Procedures

The students in this classroom video model good laboratory practice.

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Students Study Urban Ecology

See how Boston middle and high school students shape urban planning in their own neighborhoods, through place-based Bioacoustics and Urban Trees curriculum projects.

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A Tail Like This

We use our senses to communicate and explore the world around us. Animals use their senses to help them find food and tell them when danger is near. You may not be able to move your ears like a rabbit, but you both have ears. Learn about traits you share with other animals in this KET original video.

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Thank Goodness for Gravity

In this video adapted from the Lexington, KY Public Library, a young boy learns about Earth’s rotation from a librarian, a pendulum, and Leon Foucault.

Unique Species of Kentucky's Green River

This KET video from Kentucky's Last Great Places shows how the Green River has remained unusually clean and why it is home to several endangered aquatic species.

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Urban Solutions to Water Pollution

In this KET video segment from Louisville Life, high school students in Louisville, Kentucky describe the benefits of creating rain gardens as a solution to non-point source water pollution.

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Vehicle Stopping Distance

How far will your car travel once you decide you need to stop? This video adapted from KET’s Street Skills explains the biology and physics involved in individual reaction time and provides cautionary information for young drivers.

What's the Matter?

Young children learn about states of matter and the differences among solids, liquids, and gases.

What Is a Pulley?

How do you get a glove and a ball up to your tree house? One answer is to use a pulley. A pulley is a simple machine. In this original KET video, children learn about the workings of this basic mechanism.

What Is a Watershed?

Large or small, urban or rural, most watersheds have certain attributes in common. This segment from KET’s Raindrops to Rivers uses animation to show the full scope of a watershed from its collection to its final destination.

What Is Cyberlearning?

In this video produced by KQED, experts in STEM education discuss the value of cyberlearning.

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