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Acid Mine Drainage and Precipitates In this video, environmental scientists measure the pH of water to detect acid mine drainage from an abandoned coal mine and then demonstrate how metals present in acid drainage fall out of solution as precipitates when a basic substance is added to the water. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Controlling Water Run-off This video shows how the environmentally friendly design of the Visitor Center at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest near Louisville slows down water run-off and helps to control non-point-source water pollution, conserve water, and prevent soil erosion Accessibility features: Caption	4-12	Video
Environmental Impact of Acid Mine Drainage This video shows how acid mine drainage from an abandoned coal mine has affected Wildcat Branch in Kentucky's Daniel Boone National Forest. Because the creek has a very acidic pH of 2.9, most organisms cannot survive there, and Wildcat Branch is essentially dead. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Reusing Wastewater This video demonstrates how peat filtration beds at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest near Louisville, Kentucky purify and conserve wastewater and eliminate one cause of non-point-source water pollution. Accessibility features: Caption	4-12	Video
The Geology of Coal In this video, a geologist describes how coal, a sedimentary rock, was formed when organic materials piled up in swamps millions of years ago. Over time, heat and pressure transformed the buried materials into forms of coal that cause acid mine drainage when exposed to oxygen. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Arts in the Renaissance: Bransle Kentucky students perform the Maltese Bransle (pronounced brahwl), a country dance that was popular in the royal courts of France and England during the Renaissance. The segment was recorded by KET in partnership with the Kentucky Arts Council and Kentucky Shakespeare. Kentucky Shakespeare also provided the costumes worn by the dancers. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
High-Sulfur Coal and Acidic Water In this video, a geologist measures the pH of water after high-sulfur coal from a Kentucky coal mine has been added to it. This test demonstrates that the sulfate salts found on the coal’s surface cause the water to become much more acidic. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Rain Gardens This video shows how a rain garden at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest near Louisville, Kentucky slows down the flow of water from the forest’s parking lot and helps prevent soil erosion. Accessibility features: Caption	4-12	Video
Mycoremediation This video explores the process of mycoremediation: planting fungi such as oyster mushrooms to mitigate non-point-source water pollution caused by oil, gasoline, and other toxic substances. Accessibility features: Caption	4-12	Video
Restoring Lower Rock Creek This brief video describes how Lower Rock Creek’s location between two National Wild and Scenic Rivers caused Kentucky environmentalists to choose the creek as a target for acid mine drainage remediation. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Acid Mine Drainage Remediation In this video, an environmental technologist visits an abandoned coal mine in Kentucky to talk about how a remediation system (a series of settling ponds and treatment cells) is neutralizing the acid drainage flowing from the mine and keeping it from damaging a creek downstream. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Applying the Scientific Method This video provides a real-life example of the scientific method: testing hypotheses about which plants will grow most successfully on a green roof in Kentucky. Accessibility features: Caption	4-12	Video
Arts in the Renaissance: Pavane Kentucky students dance the Pavane, a processional dance from the Renaissance. The segment was recorded by KET in partnership with the Kentucky Arts Council and Kentucky Shakespeare. Kentucky Shakespeare also provided the costumes. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Arts in the Renaissance: Scene from Hamlet Actor Kevin Hardesty performs the famous “To be, or not to be” soliloquy from Act III, Scene I of the Shakespearean tragedy Hamlet. Hardesty opens the segment with an introduction to the scene. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Results of Acid Mine Drainage Remediation In this video, a biologist visits Rock Creek in Pulaski County, Kentucky to show how acid mine drainage remediation has increased the stream’s pH from acidic levels to almost neutral. Although the ecosystem has not been completely restored, many species have returned to Rock Creek. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Stream Restoration This video explores how Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest near Louisville, Kentucky has restored a channelized or straightened stream to its original meandering path, thereby improving the stream’s water quality and creating a better habitat for wildlife. Accessibility features: Caption	4-12	Video
Aquatic Insects In this brief video, a biologist talks about the macroinvertebrates (typically aquatic insects) that form the basis of food webs in healthy Kentucky streams. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Detached Wetlands This video depicts a detached wetland, a small pool that forms beside a shallow meandering stream when it overflows its banks. These wetlands are important breeding grounds for the invertebrates that live in and beside streams Accessibility features: Caption	4-12	Video
Bioethics Classroom Debate In this classroom-practice video, high school teacher Cherilee Lewis leads a classroom discussion on bioethics. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Bridging Culture, Community and Science See how a place-based high school curriculum project promotes STEM learning through local ethnography and conservation projects. This video segment showcases one of 11 CREST projects taking place in rural, coastal Maine communities. Accessibility features: Caption	7-12	Video
Busterfield Library A-Z This video segment from Between the Lions uses an alphabet song to review the ABCs, matching each letter with the name of a character from the show. Accessibility features: Caption	Pre-K-1	Video
Cheese-Making Lab Activity In this classroom-practice video, high school teacher Diane Provenzano leads her class through a biotechnology lab. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Cheese-Making Lab Results In this classroom-practice video, high school teacher Diane Provenzano leads her class through a discussion of the results of a biotechnology lab. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
The Civil War Era: About the Lancers Quadrille Dance and music educator Jennifer Rose explains the history of The Lancers Quadrille, including the origin of the dance and why it was popular in Civil War-era America. She also discusses the movements and sets of the dance. Accessibility features: Caption	5-12	Video
The Civil War Era: Uncle Tom’s Cabin In this scene from George Aiken’s dramatization of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the escaped slave Eliza reunites with her husband, George, and their friend Phineas. She recounts how she crossed the Ohio River with their child while escaping from slave hunters. Their exaggerated language and performance are characteristic of melodramas. Accessibility features: Caption	5-12	Video
Dragonflies in Kentucky This KET video segment from Kentucky Life explains the differences between dragonflies and damselflies and explores their habitats. Accessibility features: Caption	K-12	Video
The Effects of Childhood Lead Poisoning Learn about the long-term consequences of childhood lead poisoning and how to avoid them, in this video adapted from Lead Awareness for Parents by the Coalition to Prevent Lead Poisoning. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
The Effects of Pesticides on Children Follow anthropologist Elizabeth Guillette as she studies the effects of pesticides on children in a farming community in Mexico, in this video segment adapted from Playing with Poison. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Farm Nitrates in the Water Supply Learn how nitrate runoff from farm fertilizers can negatively impact human health and how a water treatment plant is tackling the challenge, in this video excerpted from Big River. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Farm Solutions to Water Pollution In this KET video from Common Ground and Cleaner Water, Tribby Vice, a Kentucky farmer, talks about the changes he has made on his farm to protect the water quality of the stream running through his property and the watershed in which he lives. Accessibility features: Caption	5-12	Video
Gaining Catfish Aquaculture Skills See how Mississippi high school students confront the uncertainty and untidiness of science and develop problem-solving strategies in the context of local catfish farming. Accessibility features: Caption	7-12	Video
Girls Explore IT Careers See how BuildIT, an afterschool program in Alameda County, CA, addresses the gender gap in advanced technology careers - promoting middle school girls' fluency in information technologies (IT), interest in math, and IT career awareness. Accessibility features: Caption	7-12	Video
Habitat and Diet in Racehorse Development This animated segment from KET's Electronic Field Trip to a Horse Farm demonstrates one of the ways calcium, a naturally occurring mineral derived from limestone, enters a horse's diet to give it an advantage in bone strength. Accessibility features: Caption	K-5	Video
Hard "c" Words This video segment from Between the Lions uses an animated road sign to illustrate and spell familiar words that begin with the /k/ sound that the letter "c" makes. Accessibility features: Caption	Pre-K-1	Video
How The Ohio River Was Formed This video segment adapted from KET's Where the River Bends demonstrates how climate change and glacier movement during the Ice Ages destroyed the old Teays River and created the Ohio River, Kentucky's northern border. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Indiana Bats of Carter Cave This KET video segment from Kentucky Life explores one of the endangered habitats of Indiana bats and describes the benefits of bats to humans. Accessibility features: Caption	K-12	Video
Japanese Culture: Japanese Aesthetics Shozo Sato provides a brief overview of Japanese aesthetics and explains the major differences between Western and Japanese aesthetics. He talks about the Japanese emphasis on stylization and the function of art and the artist in Japanese society. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Japanese Culture: Kabuki Actor's Technique Shozo Sato describes Kabuki acting technique and the training that Kabuki performers, traditionally all male, go through in order to learn how to play male, female, young, and old characters. He demonstrates vocal inflections and actual movements—walking, how the head is held, poses—of various Kabuki characters. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Japanese Culture: Kabuki Fan Symbolism Kabuki master Shozo Sato discusses the origin of fan use in Kabuki theater and demonstrates the common usage and symbolism of the various fan movements, using the fan to represent a tray, a sunrise, the wind, rain, cutting with a knife, drinking, and other items and ideas. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Japanese Culture: Kabuki Makeup Kabuki master Shozo Sato applies makeup to actor Michael Goldberg as he discusses about how makeup is applied and how colors and lines help suggest character. In Kabuki theater, makeup is used to express a character’s personality. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Japanese Culture: Scene from Macbeth Kabuki-Style In the segment Macbeth: Kabuki Style, actors Michael Goldberg and Barbara Robertson perform the scene from Macbeth in which Macbeth and Lady Macbeth plot the murder of Duncan. The text used by the actors in this video was adapted to better suit Kabuki-style performance and only resembles the standard text of Macbeth. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Japanese Culture: Shakespeare Meets Kabuki: Scene Introduction In the segment Shakespeare Meets Kabuki: Scene Introduction, Shozo Sato explains why he created “American Kabuki” to help Americans understand and appreciate this art form and why he chose to use Shakespeare to introduce Western audiences to Kabuki theater. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Japanese Culture: What Is Kabuki? Shozo Sato, a Kabuki master, presents an overview of Kabuki, pointing out major characteristics such as male actors, stylized acting, and audience. He also discusses the distinction between Kabuki and Noh theater, the other classical Japanese theatrical style. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Look It Up This video segment from Between the Lions features a catchy song that celebrates an important function of literacy: access to information. It also shows the wide world of print, and all of the knowledge that can be gained from it. Accessibility features: Caption	Pre-K-1	Video
Lure of the Labyrinth This video adapted from Maryland Public Television introduces Lure of the Labyrinth, a digital game that helps students develop math skills. Accessibility features: Caption	6-8	Video
MARTHA SPEAKS Reading Buddies in Action In this video from the MARTHA SPEAKS mini-tutorial on vocabulary, teachers Weddy Youn and Joseph Cooke describe their success in using the cross-age literacy program, MARTHA SPEAKS Reading Buddies. Accessibility features: Caption	K-5	Video
MARTHA SPEAKS Reading Buddies Up Close In this video from WFSU, staff and students describe how the MARTHA SPEAKS Reading Buddies Program works and discuss the benefits of pairing younger and older students. Accessibility features: Caption	K-5	Video
MIT Augmented Reality Tool This video from MIT's Scheller Teacher Education Program explains how their augmented reality authoring tool works and how it can be used for education. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
Mixing Colors Children learn the basics of mixing primary colors in this original animated video. Accessibility features: Caption	Pre-K-1	Video
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. Accessibility features: Caption	7-12	Video
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. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
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. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
The Scientific Method In this video, scientists discuss how they do their work by using the Scientific Method. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
Standard Lab Operating Procedures The students in this classroom video model good laboratory practice. Accessibility features: Caption	9-12	Video
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. Accessibility features: Caption	7-12	Video
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. Accessibility features: Caption	Pre-K-1	Video
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. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
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. Accessibility features: Caption	6-12	Video
What Is Cyberlearning? In this video produced by KQED, experts in STEM education discuss the value of cyberlearning. Accessibility features: Caption	5-12	Video