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Special Collection
This collection of STEM instructional resources focuses on all things Kentucky. Teachers and students have access to video and images from award-winning KET programs, with educational support materials developed in line with state academic standards. Topics include life sciences, geometry, and biology.
| RESOURCE | GRADE LEVEL | MEDIA TYPE |
|---|---|---|
American Chestnut TreeThis annotated slideshow adapted from KET's Electronic Field Trip to the Forest illustrates how blight decimated the American chestnut tree and the methods scientists use to identify and pollinate the remaining trees to create blight-resistant trees. |
6-12 |
Interactive |
The Cumberland Gap TunnelThis KET video chronicles the incredible engineering effort that built the tunnel through Cumberland Mountain as well as the challenges posed by the geological composition of the area. |
6-12 |
Video |
Dragonflies in KentuckyThis KET video segment from Kentucky Life explains the differences between dragonflies and damselflies and explores their habitats. |
K-12 |
Video |
The Falls of the OhioThis video from KET examines one of the largest exposed fossil beds in the world, found at the Falls of the Ohio River, near Louisville, Kentucky. |
3-12 |
Video |
Farm Solutions to Water PollutionIn 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. |
5-12 |
Video |
Habitat and Diet in Racehorse DevelopmentThis 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. |
K-5 |
Video |
How The Ohio River Was FormedThis 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. |
6-12 |
Video |
Indiana Bats of Carter CaveThis KET video segment from Kentucky Life explores one of the endangered habitats of Indiana bats and describes the benefits of bats to humans. |
K-12 |
Video |
Inverse Square LawThis animation from KET's distance learning physics course demonstrates the mathematical formula for a scientific law as it applies to light. |
6-12 |
Interactive |
Karst Topography and Mammoth CaveThis video from KET shows karst topography in the Mammoth Cave region of Kentucky, illustrating how caverns and sinkholes are formed from water dissolving limestone underground. |
6-12 |
Video |
Making Electricity at a Coal-Burning PlantThis video from KET traces the energy transformations that occur when coal is burned to produce electricity. Some of the mechanical processes are also described. |
6-8 |
Video |
Pixels and PigmentsThis 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. |
6-12 |
Video |
Points of OriginThis KET animation illustrates positive and negative measurement on a straight line and on a flat plane using a point of origin. |
4-8 |
Video |
QuantusThis 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.” |
4-12 |
Video |
Restoration of the American ChestnutThis 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. |
6-12 |
Video |
Thank Goodness for GravityIn 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. |
3-5 |
Video |
Unique Species of Kentucky's Green RiverThis 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. |
6-12 |
Video |
Urban Solutions to Water PollutionIn 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. |
6-12 |
Video |
Vehicle Stopping DistanceHow 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. |
6-12 |
Video |
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. |
3-12 |
Video |
