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

Just for Me presents themes common to many health education texts and widely used drug prevention curricula: handling relationships with family members, peer pressure and support, self-esteem, responsibility for self and others, making decisions, and the influence of the media.

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

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

A larger-than-life dog and his human and canine friends navigate the dips and curves of childhood and share lessons about citizenship, family, and community in this animated series based on the popular books by Norman Bridwell. Along with his loving human, Emily Elizabeth, and his dog pals, Cleo and T-Bone, Clifford inhabits a colorful island community, with his head in the clouds but all four paws planted firmly on the ground.

Each half-hour episode includes two stories and a word about one of Clifford’s 10 “Big Ideas” for kids to think about and practice:

• Be a good friend.
• Be kind.
• Be responsible.
• Be truthful.
• Believe in yourself.
• Have respect.
• Help others.
• Play fair.
• Share.
• Work together.

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.

This series deals with respect, honesty, consideration, accepting differences, and sportsmanship. Programs 101-109 are designed for grades K-2; Programs 110-119 are for grades 2-4.

Program of Studies:
All Practical Living disciplines: Personal Wellness, Lifetime Physical Wellness, Employability Ssills, Safety

With Econ and Me, teachers can teach economic concepts to 7- to 10-year-olds; help students gain insight into today’s world; help students make reasoned decisions; and reinforce language arts, mathematics, and problem-solving skills.

The Kentucky Council on Economic Education provides training for teachers in the use of these video programs. Call 1-800-436-3266 for information.

Program of Studies
All Practical Living disciplines: Cultures and Societies, Economics, Consumer Decisions, Financial Literacy, Career Awareness, Exploration, Planning, Personal Wellness

This primary health series is designed to help students discover their emotions and feelings. A cast of continuing characters provides positive reinforcement by serving as role models in contemporary situations. Four categories of skills — decision making, communication, stress management, and goal setting — are developed throughout the programs. Each program also emphasizes basic knowledge of human emotions and their universality.

Program of Studies:
All Practical Living disciplines: Personal Wellness, Safety, Psychomotor Skills, Career Awareness, Exploration, Planning, Employability Skills

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

This series deals with the essential building blocks of good character: respect, responsibility, tolerance, empathy, courage and integrity. It helps students deal with bullying and harassment by making them aware of positive techniques they can use.

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

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

Street Skills is a driver’s education series designed to help teenagers become safer, more responsible drivers. Interviews with experts and computer animation get beyond the basics to explore the mechanics, physics, psychology, and biology of driving. Interviews with police officers, accident victims, and other authorities show how careless driving can lead to serious trouble. A new Street Skills “extra” will be added to the series in March 2010 to help teens understand why texting, Twittering and talking on the cell phone can be dangerous distractions.

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

This program addresses barriers that sometimes discourage students with disabilities from pursuing a college education. Students with learning or physical disabilities talk about their experiences at a wide range of colleges and universities.

A 2002 co-production of KET and the Kentucky Developmental Disabilities Council.

Program of Studies:
All Practical Living disciplines: Career Awareness, Exploration, Planning, Employability Skills

Career Encounters is a series of documentary-style programs that explore some of today’s most challenging and rewarding career fields. Under the guidance of qualified advisors, the producers travel to the workplaces of America to find professionals and technicians who can explain what they do, how they got where they are, and why they find their work so rewarding.

Program of Studies:
All Practical Living disciplines: Career Awareness, Exploration, Planning, Employability Skills, Communication/Technology

Designed for adults who are looking for a job or want to improve their skills in order to get or keep a better job, Workplace Essential Skills shows high school students what to expect from the job application process, what skills and attributes employers look for, and how those skills are put to work in real on-the-job situations. The first eight programs help the learner develop career goals and realistic plans for attaining those goals. The four programs in the Communication Skills component explore customer service, teamwork, and conflict-resolution strategies. The series also includes instructional programs in writing, reading, and mathematics within a workplace context. These programs may be used as remedial help for students who need to improve basic skills in these areas. The accompanying workbooks are written at a 6th to 7th grade reading level. Produced by KET as part of the PBS LiteracyLink Project.

Program of Studies:
English/Language Arts: Speaking, Listening, and Observing
Mathematics: Number Properties and Operations, Measurement, Geometry, Data Analysis and Probability, Algebraic Thinking
Practical Living/Vocational Studies: Career Awareness, Exploration, Planning, Employability Skills, Communication/Technology

For young men and women entering the workforce, different types of harassment are a true job hazard. In 2006, over 12,000 charges of sexual harassment were filed with the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission. In this video, KET and the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts help educate young adults on what harassment is, how to identify the signs of harassment, and what they can do to stop it.

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

For young men and women entering the workforce, different types of harassment are a true job hazard. In 2006, over 12,000 charges of sexual harassment were filed with the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission. In this video, KET and the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts help educate young adults on what harassment is, how to identify the signs of harassment, and what they can do to stop it.

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