Learn how to teach children ways to manage their feelings and turn them into positive actions, including creating a calm and regulated environment, showing how to manage impulses, and discussing ways to resolve conflicts.
Learn to help students develop key skills for successful relationships: communication, cooperation, and conflict resolution. Educators can help students develop these skills by working together in groups and discussing roles. Parents can support their children by spending time with them and encouraging communication.
Uncle Sam is asking you to do your part to fight ICK! Where ever ick may be. In this feature Uncle Sam, of the Federal Bureau of Ick, declares hand washing a civic duty in order to eradicate ick, including germs and viruses.
In this TV411 activity, students are introduced to aspects of diabetes. The video clip in this activity explores how to tally the amount of carbohydrates one consumes each day. Students then learn to calculate the percentages of people who have diabetes.
Minnie, a teenager living with diabetes, goes to a gym for the first time to work out in this video adapted from Living with MyType2. Minnie’s coach, Brandi, guides her through different exercises and stretches. She also discusses some strategies that Minnie can adopt to stay motivated to exercise and help control her diabetes.
This learning activity will help students understand the concept of inclusion and that everyone belongs no matter the situation. It can be used during a lesson on positive social interactions when engaging in physical activity.
A simple activity that allows students to reinforce previously learned skills. This learning activity can be used as a warm-up or cool down before or after another activity.
To practice the soccer skills of passing and trapping while using the math skill of addition. This learning activity can be used as a peer assessment. Students can be assigned a partner and each partner will evaluate their partner for proper form before having a pass count toward their total. The partner who selects the card performs the pass against the wall, and the partner uses a skill checklist to determine whether or not it is acceptable toward the card total.
In this video from the Johnny and the Sprites episode, "The Sprites' Rules". Johnny gives the Sprites an idea of making rules so they can work functionally. However, the Sprites get carried away and find themselves dancing, singing, and humming continuously. They go back to Johnny to ask him what went wrong. The video can be played to introduce a lesson on describing how rules provide order, security, and safety in the home, school, and community. The video is 3 minutes and 32 seconds in length.
In this episode of Happy Healthy Kids, Miss Kelsey explains how brushing keeps us smiling. Do you know how long you should brush and how often? Let’s find out!
Experts in adolescent medicine and suicide research explain the factors that contribute to the rise in youth suicides. Dr. Hatim Omar, an adolescent medicine specialist at the University of Kentucky, and Melinda Moore, Ph.D., a psychology professor at Eastern Kentucky University, both agree that limiting access to lethal means of suicide is crucial to reducing overall rates. This video segment is part of You Are Not Alone, a youth mental health series produced by KET.
A researcher and psychotherapist explains how trauma affects children and teens and describes what can be done to help. Ginny Sprang, Ph.D., executive director of the Center on Trauma and Children at the University of Kentucky, explains how psychiatrists define trauma. Trauma can include direct exposure to physical or sexual harm, witnessing such harm, learning about a life-altering event such as a parent’s death, or repeated exposure to details of a traumatic event.
This interactive timeline tool from ReadWriteThink can be used by students with guidance from their teacher or parents to create a graphic representation of the chronology of events of their lives. This tool can be used when teaching sequencing events using calendars, schedules, and timelines.
Kindergarten students could use the first line of the template provided, either writing their birth date themselves or telling it to someone for dictation. Each student could illustrate the sentence. Then, make a list of the months of the year, with each student's birth date written next to the month of their birth, in order by days. After making a wall timeline with the months of the year, each student's birth date could be added in the correct month.
Use the following template for students to record dates and events. They can take it home and do it with the help of family members and also add information in class on their own.
I was born on (Month, day, year)
In __________, I was one year old and I __________.
In __________, I was two years old and I __________.
This video is from History.com and explains what happened in the 1803 United States court case between William Marbury and James Madison. This video can be played before or during a lesson taught on key cases that helped shape the United States Supreme Court. The video is 3 minutes and 23 seconds in length.
This video from History.com gives an overview of the War of 1812. This video can be played before or during a lesson on relations of the United States with Britain and France as an introduction to the War of 1812. The video is 3 minutes 10 seconds in length.
Learn about Healthy Highway, a program to help people make healthy choices about nutrition. It uses simple graphics and concepts to explain options, such as traffic signs to explain how to make good nutrition choices. The program has been used by schools and Special Olympics.
Leo leads an active life. As a type 1 diabetic, his nutritional needs demand added scrutiny. At every meal, a pump delivers insulin into Leo’s body and a monitor tracks his blood glucose level. Because the body processes nutrients in different ways, Leo analyzes foods for their protein, fat, and carbohydrate contents.
Sam shows off his family’s backyard garden, where tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, and more, grow. He looks forward to getting gardening tips from First Lady Michelle Obama, who describes the White House garden as a way to spread the ideas of eating well, growing your own food, and making friends with vegetables. Sam encourages his family members to eat brown rice instead of white rice and a salad instead of pizza.
Everyone loves music! Learn about music therapy, as a profession, and how it is used to increase communication, inclusion and builds skills for people with disabilities.
Learn about the work of speech pathologists and what they do to help children with communicative disorders. This video was produced on-site at CP Rochester Augustin Children's Center.
In this episode of Happy Healthy Kids, Miss Kelsey highlights how to count down to keep calm. Learn how to “count the moments” and keep your breathing steady with clips from Ready, Jet, Go and Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood.
In this episode of Happy Healthy Kids, Miss Kelsey illustrates how breathing encourages self-control. Practice ways to relax using only your breath.
In this episode of Happy Healthy Kids, Miss Kelsey encourages kids to explain how they feel to their grown-ups. Watch a clip from Arthur and see how sharing his feelings make him feel better.
In this episode of Happy Healthy Kids, Miss Kelsey provides a “fountain” of facts about drinking water. Did you know your age determines how much water you should drink? Let’s find out!
In this episode of Happy Healthy Kids, Miss Kelsey leads everyone outside to smell the fresh air! Let’s run and play one hour every day in our beautiful world!
In this episode of Happy Healthy Kids, Miss Kelsey and some PBS Kids characters, help kids understand how facial expressions reflect our emotions. By recognizing our feelings, we learn how others are feeling as well.
This video from Khan Academy gives an overview of pre-Columbian cultures including the Incas, Aztecs, Olmecs, and Mayas. The video can be used to introduce a lesson on these cultures. It is 7 minutes and 41 seconds in length.
This video from Khan Academy gives an overview of how a manor was organized in Medieval Europe and serfs and serfdom. This video can be played as an introduction to manorialism and feudalism. The video is 5 minutes and 54 seconds in length.
This informational material comes from Khan Academy and is an article about labor unions during the Industrial Age. The article gives an overview of the American Federation of Labor and the Haymarket Square Riot. Students can read this article and answer the questions at the end. This article can be used during a lesson on the Industrial Age and as an assessment after the lesson.
This video from Khan Academy gives an overview of the early twentieth century which saw a huge number of Progressive reform movements. The Progressive reform movements aimed to improve labor, sanitation, conservation, voting rights, and morality. This video compares the goals and effects of the Progressive reform movement. This video can be played to introduce the Progressive Movement. The video is 7 minutes and 33 seconds in length.
This informational material from Khan Academy gives an overview of muckrakers. Muckrakers were journalists and novelists of the Progressive Era who sought to expose corruption in big business and government. The work of muckrakers influenced the passage of key legislation that strengthened protections for workers and consumers. Some of the most famous muckrakers were women, including Ida Tarbell and Ida B. Wells. This article can be used to introduce muckrakers or as an assessment. The article includes questions at the end.
This video from Khan Academy gives an overview of the events leading up to World War II. The video is 7 minutes 54 seconds in length. It can be played during an introduction to World War II.
This video from Khan Academy is an overview of the Cold War which was a period of increased tensions and competition for global influence between the United States that lasted from approximately 1945 until 1991. Tensions increased in the aftermath of World War II when the United States dropped the atom bomb and Russian forces took over Eastern Europe. During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union never directly attacked one another but instead fought proxy wars in order to repel or spread communism, respectively. This video can be played to introduce a lesson on the Cold War. The video is 11 minutes and 57 seconds in length.
This is an article from Khan Academy which provides an overview of the start of the Cold War. In 1947, President Harry S. Truman pledged that the United States would help any nation resist communism in order to prevent its spread. His policy of containment is known as the Truman Doctrine. The Truman Doctrine demonstrated that the United States would not return to isolationism after World War II, but rather take an active role in world affairs. To help rebuild after the war, the United States pledged $13 billion of aid to Europe in the Marshall Plan. This article can be used when teaching about the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan and as an assessment. Students can answer the questions at the end of the article.
