Registration is open for the 2015 Kentucky NEED Conference for Educators, which will be held June 14-19 in Winchester. The conference brings together 24 educators who are passionate about bringing energy education to their classrooms and provides teachers with the most up-to-date information on all aspects of energy, including the science of energy, sources of energy, transportation, consumption, electricity, efficiency [...]
Project Learning Tree will host its Southeastern Forests and Climate Change workshop for educators March 6 at the Buckley Wildlife Sanctuary in Frankfort. The workshop will provide the latest and greatest curriculum regarding the effects of climate change for teachers and facilitators. The registration fee is $15, which includes lunch. The registration deadline is Feb. 27. Click here to register [...]
“Mission 4: City of Immigrants,” part of the Mission U.S. collection of free educational games with comprehensive support materials about three different periods in American history produced by WNET-TV in New York, is now live. In “Mission 4: City of Immigrants,” students assume the role of Lena Brodsky, a 14-year-old Jewish immigrant from Minsk, Russia. Lena arrives in the United [...]
A Kentucky School for the Deaf mathematics teacher is utilizing an online homework and testing system that she helped align with the Kentucky Core Academic Standards.
The eCybermission web-based STEM competition is seeking more than 2,000 virtual judges to evaluate entries from the nearly 28,000 students enrolled in the competition. Sponsored by the U.S. Army, the competition involves teams of students in grades 6-9 are submitting entries in which they propose a solution to a real problem in their community. Volunteers will independently evaluate and score [...]
The Rochester Reform Trail, a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshop for K-12 teachers, will host two week-long workshops in July exploring the antebellum reform movement at the College at Brockport, State University of New York, in Brockport, New York. Landmark visits held during the workshops July 19-25 and July 26-Aug. 1 will [...]
“As Many Exceptions As Rules” is a free online resource in which exceptions to natural and biological rules and stories of adaptation and diversity are used to illustrate and reinforce the core concepts of biology. Posted weekly by Mark Lasbury of the Indiana University School of Medicine and the IUPUI School of Education, each story includes pertinent vocabulary with etymology, [...]
The University of Kentucky Confucius Institute (UKCI) is offering its 2015 Summer China Trips for high school students and education decision-makers in June. The trip for students is a 14-day study tour June 8-21, while the trip for educators is an 11-day education trip June 20-30. Participants’ expenses within China will be paid by UKCI, while are responsible for round-trip [...]
The short, policy-focused session of the General Assembly ends March 24.
Students, teachers and leaders at Thomas Nelson High School do much of their business online, and school leaders say it has “revolutionized” the way the school is run.