Eastern Kentucky University has updated its online catalog for the professional development opportunities it is hosting this summer. These sessions are open to anyone, and there are several free sessions including one concerning evidence and Program Reviews. www.coe.eku.edu/field_services For more information, contact Sarah Evans.
The Kentucky Geological Survey has several classroom activities on geologic time posted online at www.uky.edu/KGS/education/about_time.htm
The Economic Lowdown is a podcast series for high school students produced by the Economic Education department of the St. Louis Fed. The series covers topics in economics, personal finance, banking and monetary policy. The Economic Lowdown is available on the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’s website, www.stlouisfed.org/education_resources/podcasts and on iTunes. There are six episodes available: Opportunity Cost, Factors [...]
The Office of K-8 Science of American Chemical Society has just released a free middle school science resource. This resource includes activity-based lesson plans for teaching basic chemistry concepts at the middle school level. The lessons cover all the main concepts in middle school chemistry so any part of a lesson, or the entire lesson, can be used on its [...]
The Library of Congress (LOC) has made available scanned and searchable images of newspapers from Kentucky, as well as other states, from 1860 through 1922 as part of their Chronicling America project. The newspapers from Kentucky include several from the central Kentucky area: Bluegrass Blade, Berea Citizen, Bourbon News, Winchester Sun and others. The full database is available here and [...]
Green Teacher’s 2011 webinar series, designed for both non-formal and formal youth educators, offers 30 free webinars on various environmental education topics this year. Nearly 800 non-formal and formal youth educators filled out our online survey and helped us choose the topics for these webinars. Each session will feature a 20-30 minute presentation and 30-40 minutes for questions. For more [...]
Kentucky high school students have a free resource to help them through the college application process called the College Cost & Planning Report. The reports are provided through a partnership of the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority (KHEAA) and Student Aid Services Inc. Each report is a personalized calculation and comparison of aid eligibility and net prices of the colleges [...]
LabWrite comes from North Carolina State University and is a website designed to take students through the process of writing a lab report. More information on how to use LabWrite is available online or visit the LabWrite website.
The Kentucky Geological Survey has developed many resources to support K-12 geology and earth science classes. Visit the resources here and the geology of Kentucky pages online at here. There are online keys to rocks, minerals and fossils of Kentucky. Also, there is a Citizen’s Guide to geologic maps and issues in Kentucky geology for land use planning, an interactive [...]
The National Teacher Registry is a new and free service for teachers and schools, public and private, preschool through college. The National Teacher Registry helps teachers get items they need and want for their classroom when there is no budget to purchase them. There are more than 40,000 items from multiple suppliers on the site and many more products are [...]