The Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) scholarly research fellowship program encourages and promotes research on all aspects of Kentucky history. Fellowships are designed to assist researchers with travel and living expenses while using the KHS research collections. All applications are peer-reviewed by a panel of leading historians. Awards are based on the significance of the proposed research and on the anticipated [...]
The Friends of Mammoth Cave National Park is providing transportation grants of up to $500 to enable children to visit the park who may otherwise not have the opportunity. The first two transportation grant recipients are T. C. Cherry Elementary (Warren County) and Whitney Young Elementary (Jefferson County). Each school will plan individual visits to the park later in the [...]
The Kentucky Division of Water (DOW) has assumed state sponsorship of Project WET, an interdisciplinary water science and education program for formal and non-formal educators of students in kindergarten through grade 12 and adults. The program was previously sponsored by the Kentucky Environmental Education Council (KEEC). The goal of Project WET, an acronym for Water Education for Teachers, is to [...]
Teachers looking for interactive physics lab simulations should check out KET’s new virtual physics labs. This resource allows students the opportunity to use this virtual equipment with lab activities, or KET’s, with no lab set up time and with no physical apparatus in a classroom. It’s available to teachers and students any time. Public school teachers can request a 60-day [...]
The White House Rural Council recently announced the U.S. Department of Education’s new online community of practice group for rural schools. Virtual communities of practice provide a platform for educators to connect to resources, tools, colleagues, experts, and learning activities, both within and beyond schools. Rural school leaders and teachers can join this online community by logging-on here, creating an [...]
The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) and the American Chemical Society (ACS) are hosting a webinar on middle school chemistry. It is the second of six webinars covering each of the six chapters in the ACS free middle school science teaching resource http://www.middleschoolchemistry.com/. The webinar, which is on July 26, is hosted by the NSTA Learning Center and covers the [...]
The following teaching and learning materials are available for free in the public domain and are provided by Kathy Mansfield, library media and textbook consultant for the Kentucky Department of Education, for consideration by educators to supplement the curriculum.
The University of Kentucky's College of Education Department will offer a professional learning opportunity this summer that includes a week-long “compressed” graduate level course designed specifically for K-8 reading and language arts teachers. It course will focus on improving professional practice in reading instruction, intervention and assessment. It will concentrate on developing skills to effectively use assessment to drive all phases of [...]
The Arts Education Partnership is announcing the release of ArtsEdSearch.org - the nation’s first online research and policy clearinghouse that documents the educational outcomes of arts learning for students and teachers. ArtsEdSearch grew out of a need for high quality, centrally located and user-friendly information on the essential role the arts play in developing students’ creative thinking, problem solving, communication [...]
NASA's DIY Podcast offers resources for educators and students to use to create podcasts using free NASA images, video footage and audio clips. Various topic modules are available on the site, including: