Literacy Plan for Kentucky

A fully interactive guide through Kentucky's Literacy Plan.

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.

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Arts in the Renaissance: Palestrina

Bruce Heim, a University of Louisville music professor, discusses and demonstrates key characteristics of Renaissance music including counterpoint and homophony. The segment concludes with the Louisville Brass performing an arrangement of Renaissance composer Palestrina's "Sicut cervus."

Classroom Tips

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

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

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GED Professional Development Geometry Course Overview

In the Course Overview, you will find the description and objectives of the course, along with an outline of the four sections and their respective lessons. You will also find instructions on how to begin and progress through the course.

Explicit Lesson Plan

An example of a lesson plan.

Formative Assessment in Practice: Module 1: Overview

This series of modules looks at formative assessment—assessment for learning—and its role in increasing student achievement and motivation. Module 1 defines formative assessment and looks at how it fits into a balanced assessment system.

Think Garden: The History of Food

This video provides a brief history of cultivated food. Take a trip through the woods as a hunter-gatherer; see how Native Americans used companion crops like the Three Sisters; and get a closer look at where the tomato got its start. Also learn about how cultivated food is preserved.

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.

Lines, Angles, and Triangles: Lesson 1 - Introducing Lines and Angles

Introducing Lines and Angles is the first of eight self-paced lessons in the “Lines, Angles, and Triangles” section of KET’s GED^® Geometry Professional Development Online Course.

Module 1: Preparing To Teach Proportional Reasoning

This teaching module introduces proportional reasoning in the classroom and its place in the Common Core Mathematics Standards, the related teacher resources available at the Scale City website, and what students should know and be able to do to understand proportional reasoning. Module 1 of Using Scale City to Teach Proportional Reasoning.

Measurement: Lesson 1- Standard Measurement

Standard Measurement is the first of five self-paced lessons in the “Measurement” section of KET’s GED^® Geometry Professional Development Online Course.

Perimeter, Area, and Volume: Lesson 1 - Plane and Solid Figures

Plane and Solid Figures is the first of seven self-paced lessons in the “Perimeter, Area, and Volume” section of KET’s GED^® Geometry Professional Development Online Course.

Transforming Education in Kentucky: Module 1

Overview of 2009 Kentucky Senate Bill 1: Learn more about the next generation of school reform in Kentucky and how it compares to the previous education system. State and national education leaders reflect on why education reform is needed to ensure high school graduates are college and career ready. Module 1 of Transforming Education in Kentucky.

Tunneling for Water: Geology and the Ohio River Tunnel Project

This video explains the importance of the Ohio River as a source of drinking water, its geologic origin, the rock strata exposed when Louisville Water Company dug a tunnel beside the river to access the water, and the meaning of the terms “aquifer” and “filtration."

What is Biodiversity?

This excerpt from the KET Kentucky Life Biodiversity series, offers a brief overview of what we mean when we refer to the biodiversity of a particular area or region.

WorkKeys® Locating Information - Level 3

Click here for additional video, worksheets, suggested uses, discussion questions, and more resources designed to help learners with Level 3 of the WorkKeys Locating Information assessment.

Arts in the Renaissance: Upon a Summer's Day

Instructor Jennifer Rose teaches students a Renaissance dance, Upon a Summer’s Day, from John Playford’s book The English Dancing Master. They perform the dance’s three figures and chorus. Rose relates that this was still danced in Appalachia in the 1920s and explains dance’s role in social interaction in the Renaissance.

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.

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.

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Formative Assessment in Practice: Module 2: Administrative Leadership

This module is targeted to school administrators, SBDM members, and school board members and looks at the role administrators play in helping teachers effectively assess students formatively.

Kentucky Literacy Resources by Standard

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

Lines, Angles, and Triangles: Lesson 2 - Types of Angles

Types of Angles is the second of eight self-paced lessons in the “Lines, Angles, and Triangles” section of KET’s GED^® Geometry Professional Development Online Course.

Module 2: Using Scale City To Teach Proportional Reasoning

This teaching module introduces you to the resources found in Scale City: The Road to Proportional Reasoning, including the mathematics explored in each module, descriptions of the videos, and tutorials for the Flash activities. Module 2 of Using Scale City to Teach Proportional Reasoning.

Transforming Education in Kentucky: Module 2

Revised State Content Standards: Module 2 explores the new content standards as well as the process underway in Kentucky to adopt the Common Core State Standards and to develop new standards for the entire curriculum. Module 2 of Transforming Education in Kentucky.

Measurement: Lesson 2 - Standard Measurement Conversion and Problem Solving

Standard Measurement Conversion and Problem Solving is the second of five self-paced lessons in the “Measurement” section of KET’s GED^® Geometry Professional Development Online Course.

Perimeter, Area, and Volume: Lesson 2 - Properties of Circles

Properties of Circles is the second of seven self-paced lessons in the “Perimeter, Area, and Volume” section of KET’s GED^® Geometry Professional Development Online Course.

Pre-Assessment

The Pre-Assessment for KET’s GED^® Geometry Professional Development Online Course is a diagnostic tool that will help you identify your current geometry skill level. There are 24 questions which cover the content of the 24 lessons within the course.

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.

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The Three Levels of Biodiversity

This interactive adapted from Kentucky's Natural Heritage: An Illustrated Guide to Biodiversity, introduces learners to the three levels of biodiversity: genetic, species, and ecosystem.

Tunneling for Water: Understanding the Riverbank Filtration System

This video explores the importance of groundwater, the use of wells, and the unique nature of Louisville Water Company’s riverbank filtration system.

Using Teachers' Domain in the Classroom Workshop

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

WorkKeys® Locating Information - Level 4

Click here for additional video, worksheets, suggested uses, discussion questions, and more resources designed to help learners with Level 4 of the WorkKeys Locating Information assessment.

Think Garden: A Year in the Garden

This video tells the story of a traditional summer garden over the course of a year. Learn how to prepare for a garden during winter months. See students get their gardens ready for planting, and then watch as they tend to their gardens all summer.

Arts in the Renaissance: About the Bransle

Carrie Nath, director of education for the Kentucky Arts Council, explains the purpose and structure of the Maltese Bransle, a country dance that was popular in the courts of England and France during the Renaissance.

Formative Assessment in Practice: Module 3: Elementary Classrooms

This module is designed to demonstrate the characteristics of quality formative assessment in elementary classrooms. Multiple videos of classroom practice illustrate what quality formative assessment looks like in elementary classrooms.

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.

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Lines, Angles, and Triangles: Lesson 3 - Complementary Angles

Complementary and Supplementary Angles is the third of eight self-paced lessons in the “Lines, Angles, and Triangles” section of KET’s GED^® Geometry Professional Development Online Course.

Module 3: Introduction to Scale City Learning Modules

This module includes videos of middle grades students tackling some of the problems in four of the Scale City modules. You will explore ways you might assess, support, and challenge your students as they learn about scale, scaling, and proportional reasoning. Module 3 of Using Scale City to Teach Proportional Reasoning.

Transforming Education in Kentucky: Module 3

Great Teachers and Great Leaders: This module explores the characteristics of great teachers and leaders and provides some insight into the new teacher and principal evaluation system that is part of 2009 Kentucky Senate Bill 1. Module 3 of Transforming Education in Kentucky.

Perimeter, Area, and Volume: Lesson 3 - Perimeter and Circumference

Perimeter and Circumference is the third of seven self-paced lessons in the “Perimeter, Area, and Volume” section of KET’s GED^® Geometry Professional Development Online Course.

Phonemic Awareness Screen

A guide to identifying and understanding phonemes.

Recycling and Restoration

This video explains how Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest near Louisville, Kentucky used recycled cypress from pickle vats to build its visitor center and then “paid back” nature by creating a cypress-tupelo swamp at one end of a lake on the park grounds.

Select Species Groups of Kentucky

In this interactive adapted from Kentucky’s Natural Heritage: An Illustrated Guide to Biodiversity, students will learn about the variety of species that call Kentucky their home.

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.

Tunneling for Water: Digging the Tunnel and Prehistoric Water!

This video traces the construction of Louisville Water Company’s riverbank filtration system, including the unexpected discovery of a reservoir of prehistoric water.

Think Garden: What's a Food Chain?

This video illustrates why all living things need food and explains how organisms provide energy to each other. Colorful graphics show the difference between a food chain and a food web, and an animation and poem make food chains easy to understand.