Re-energize your students with these fun, contemporary dance routines! Fit Kids’ Classroom Workout can be used in any school space, anytime, any day, to invigorate and motivate your students. It gets students excited about being physically active and provides an ideal break from the day’s routines. It can also be used as a warm-up to other physical activity.

The series includes four 5-minute and two 10-minute workouts, plus a brief “healthy message” at the end of each excercise segment. The two 10-minute choreographed workouts link the moves that have been taught during the four shorter workouts, while the six healthy messages provide basic information about the importance of a healthy lifestyle. Each classroom workout teaches moves from a different genre.

Program of Studies:
Practical Living: Personal Wellness, Lifetime Physical Wellness

This 18-part series emphasizes the importance of building a healthy body and a healthy mind. Some of the many topics included are: good character traits, avoiding the use of alcohol and other drugs, good nutrition, and the long lasting value of exercise.

Videos 10, 11, 12, and 13 are a part of The Gateway Drugs Action Pack, a comprehensive drug curriculum to educate and inform students of the extreme dangers of tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and inhalants. The age-specific series centers around four videos which will rivet your students’ attention with songs, quizzes, computer animated graphics, and a question-and-answer series with the amazing Dr. Brainiac. Each video works to bring home the message to your students to stay away from drugs.

Program of Studies:
All Practical Living disciplines: Personal Wellness, Nutrition, Psychomotor Skills, Lifetime Physical Wellness, Safety

This popular children’s series, based on the books by Marc Brown, features Arthur the Aardvark and his friends using language, communication, and problem-solving skills at school, at play, and in interpersonal relationships. Designed to encourage reading, writing, and cooperative problem solving, the programs outline dilemmas faced by elementary children—from a “bad hair day” to the temptation to cheat—and show Arthur and friends working together to figure out what is the right thing to do.

Each regular half-hour episode includes two complete animated stories, plus an interstitial segment featuring real kids and built on a specific theme.

Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher joins other state dignitaries and officials from the Kentucky Center for School Safety to kick off Safe Schools Week in this short program. It will serve as a brief introduction to events and activities around the state designed to prevent violence in schools and encourage students to take the lead in keeping their own schools safe.

The Pledge Against School Violence can be taken online at the Kentucky Center for School Safety web site.

Fat Albert and his friends deal with the day-to-day problems confronted by children everywhere. Featuring Bill Cosby, the series emphasizes values and how to work through problem situations. In addition to speaking through the animated Fat Albert gang, Bill Cosby directly addresses viewers, guiding them in understanding the dilemmas and solutions dealt with by Fat Albert and his friends.

The series includes groups of programs on conflict (101-103), prejudice (104-107), family issues (108-111), safety (112-115), responsibility (116-119), and school (120-123).

Program of Studies:
All Practical Living disciplines: Personal Wellness, Nutrition, Psychomotor Skills, Lifetime Physical Wellness, Employability Skills, Safety, Consumer Decisions, Career Awareness, Exploration and Planning

Biz Kid$ teaches children how to make and manage money, while inspiring them to pursue their dreams. Students gain the knowledge and tools to succeed in a global economy. The series demonstrates the importance of planning, goal setting, risk taking, and thoughtful decision making within the context of financial decisions. It also encourages the skills necessary to become a successful entrepreneur through inspiring stories of real young people who have created successful businesses.

Program of Studies:
All Practical Living disciplines: Economics, Consumer Decisions, Financial Literacy, Career Awareness, Employability Skills

This ten-part series and print curriculum addresses a host of important issues and concerns that young teens are grappling with such as handling difficult emotions, dealing with crisis, and coping with peer pressure. It also teaches students important skills such as assertiveness skills, decision skills, study skills, and the rules of common courtesy.

Program of Studies:
All Practical Living Disciplines: Personal Wellness, Nutrition, Safety, Physical Wellness

Green careers are a high-demand job track for students from a wide range of academic disciplines and with a wide variety of interests. This series provides information about the educational requirements for entering the various fields. Young people are encouraged to take advantage of internships and part-time jobs to get hands-on experience while pursuing their studies. By becoming stewards of our environment, young people who choose a green career can help solve the some of the greatest problems of our time while finding work that matches their personal interests and values.

Program of Studies:
Vocational Studies:Consumer Decisions, Career Awareness, Exploration, Planning, Employability Skills
Communication/Technology Science: Interdependence

TV411 focuses on parenting, money matters, and health. Subjects include reading comprehension, research techniques, writing to others, filling out forms, calculating percentages, using fractions, test taking, and more.

Program of Studies:
All Practical Living disciplines: Personal Wellness, Consumer Decisions, Financial Literacy, Career Awareness, Exploration and Planning, Employability Skills, Communication/Technology

TV411 focuses on parenting, money matters, and health. Subjects include reading comprehension, research techniques, writing to others, filling out forms, calculating percentages, using fractions, test taking, and more.

Program of Studies:
All Practical Living disciplines: Personal Wellness, Consumer Decisions, Financial Literacy, Career Awareness, Exploration and Planning, Employability Skills, Communication/Technology

These documentaries explore what middle school girls and boys are thinking, doing, and feeling. The documentaries help them and others gain a full understanding of the forces at work on their minds and bodies during their adolescent years, and how they can react to emerge stronger, wiser and more confident.

Program of Studies:
All Practical Living disciplines: Personal Wellness, Nutrition, Safety

These gripping, unflinching programs feature true stories and real kids in a peer-to-peer format that focuses on the at-risk issues kids face everyday. CWK Network promotes the positive power of kids talking to kids, sharing their struggles and successes, so your students can understand and improve their own attitudes, behaviors, and decision-making.

Program of Studies:
All Practical Living disciplines: Personal Wellness, Safety, Psychomotor Skills, Lifetime Physical Wellness

This award-winning program on sexual harassment in schools contains three video modules. The first two, “What Is Sexual Harassment?” and “Stopping Sexual Harassment,” use reenactments and dramatized interviews to define sexual harassment; show the various effects it can have on students; and show students how to respond to offensive behavior, whether they are targets or bystanders. The third module, designed for teachers, is hosted by Nan Stein of the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women.

This program has been flagged for content and/or language. KET strongly encourages teachers to preview the program before showing it to students. Contact KET’s Education office, (800) 432-0951, ext. 7261, for more information.

Program of Studies:
All Practical Living disciplines: Personal Wellness, Safety