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F Everyday Math (Preschool-2)
Scale City (6-8)
Other Resources from Scale City Partners
Teacher Resources
GED Geometry Professional Development Course
Using Scale City to Teach Proportional Reasoning
Other Professional Development
F Brian’s Picks: Mathematics
F New or Revised for 2012/2013
How to Access Resources
With a few exceptions, most resources listed in this
section are available either at KET Teachers’ Domain
or KET ED On Demand, which are both offered via KET
EncycloMedia (www.ket.org/encyclomedia). Instructions
for accessing these services are on pages 10-11. Please
note: Sometime during the school year, KET Teachers’
Domain will be absorbed into PBS LearningMedia, a new,
more comprehensive repository. Before Teachers’ Domain
sunsets, all KET-produced resources will be transferred to
LearningMedia.
Everyday Math
Math concepts for the youngest students
Grade Levels:
Length:
Accessible Online:
Preschool-Primary
1-3 minutes
KET Teachers’ Domain via
www.ket.org/encyclomedia
Everyday Math is a collection of online videos and interactives for
students ages 3-6. It’s designed to complement Everyday Math for
Preschoolers, a comprehensive curriculum of fun, easy-to-implement
lesson plans and inexpensive activities that help prepare young children
for success in school. Topics addressed in the curriculum and
online resources include numbers and operations; geometry; algebraic
thinking; money, time, and measurement; and data analysis.
Available Spring 2013.
Program TITLES
1. Hop to It (counting)
2. Shape Hunt
3. Shapes All Around Me
4. Shape House
5. Patterns Repeat
6. Let’s Make a Pattern
7. Making 10 (counting)
8. Seasonal Tree (time)
9. Graphing Fruit
Scale City
NETA Award FOR INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA
The Road to Proportional Reasoning
Grade Levels: 6-8
Website:
www.scalecity.org
Launch Date: October, 2009
Middle school students learn about proportional reasoning through
video visits to Kentucky places that illustrate scale and scaling and
accompanying interactives that allow them to explore and apply
the math. The website offers extensive teacher materials as well as
links to resources developed by KET’s public television partners in
Alabama, Arkansas, and Maryland.
Dinosaur world:
• Video: Greetings from Dinosaur World — A visit to Dinosaur World in
Cave City, Kentucky, which has over 150 to-scale dinosaur replicas.
• Interactive: Size-O-Rama — Use proportional reasoning and one-dimensional
scaling to compute the height of dinosaurs and other figures
Louisville Slugger Museum:
• Video: Greetings from the Louisville Slugger Museum — A tour of the
Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory to see the World’s Largest Bat
• Interactive: Similar Shadows — Learn how to determine the height of an
unknown object using a known height, shadows, and similar triangles.
World of Mural painting:
• Video: Greetings from the World of Mural Painting — A look at murals
created for Kentucky post offices during the Depression
• Interactive: Mural Math — Explore two-dimensional scaling by sizing up
and painting murals.
Miniature land:
• Video: Greetings from Miniature Land — A trip to miniature exhibits at
the Kentucky Gateway Museum in Maysville and the Behringer-Crawford
Museum in Covington and to an architectural firm in Lexington
• Interactive: House of Scales — Size a house up by a factor of 10 and see
what happens to its dimensions, including its volume.
World Chicken Festival:
• Video: Greetings from the World Chicken Festival — A visit to the World
Chicken Festival in London, Kentucky, where you can eat chicken prepared
in the World’s Largest Stainless Steel Skillet
• Interactive: Sunnyside Up — Use proportional reasoning to scale up recipes
and explore what happens to the area of a skillet when its radius increases.
Sky-vue drive-in:
• Video: Greetings from the Sky-Vue Drive-In — A journey through the
history of drive-in theaters culminating with the Sky-Vue Twin Drive-In in
Winchester, Kentucky
• Interactive: Drive-In Shadow Puppets — Discover the inverse proportional
relationship between an object’s distance from a light source and the
height of its shadow.
Belle of louisville:
• Video: Greetings from the Belle of Louisville — An examination of how
the Belle of Louisville’s calliope and other musical instruments relate to
mathematics
• Interactive: Musical Scales — Explore the mathematical relationship
between the length of pipes in a panpipe and their pitch or frequency.
Kentucky Horse park:
• Video: Greetings from the Kentucky Horse Park — A trip to the Kentucky
Horse Park to see the Parade of Breeds and visit the grave of the legendary
racehorse, Man o’ War.
• Interactive: At the Track — See how time, distance, and speed are proportionally
related by racing various opponents against Man o’ War.
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