Curriculum Connections
KET’s Electronic Field Trip to the Post Office and the accompanying classroom activities address the following Kentucky academic standards:
Academic Expectations
- 1.1: Students use reference tools.
- 1.11: Students write using appropriate forms, conventions, and styles to communicate ideas and information to different audiences for different purposes.
- 1.13: Students make sense of ideas and communicate ideas through the visual arts.
- 2.10: Students understand measurement concepts and use measurements appropriately and accurately.
- 2.33: Students will demonstrate the skills to evaluate and use services and resources available in the community.
- 2.7: Students understand number concepts and use numbers appropriately and accurately.
- 5.1: Students use critical thinking skills such as analyzing, prioritizing, categorizing, evaluating, and comparing to solve a variety of problems in real-life situations.
- 5.2: Students use creative thinking skills to develop or invent novel, constructive ideas or products.
Core Content
- AH-E-4.1.41: Create artwork using the elements of art and principles of design.
- ELA P1-1: Pose questions to obtain ideas and information for authentic purposes.
- MA-E-1.1.2: Use the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
- MA-E-1.2.3: Add and subtract decimals through hundredths.
- MA-E-2.2.1: Sort objects and compare attributes.
- MA-E-2.2.5: Use nonstandard and standard units to measure weight, length, perimeter, area, and angles.
- SS-E-1.1.1: Democratic governments function according to the needs and wants of the citizens and provide for society’s needs.
- SS-E-3.1.2: Consumers use goods and services to satisfy wants and needs.
- SS-E-3.4.2: The government provides goods and services.
- SS-E-3.4.3: Producers specialize to create specific goods or services.
- SS-E-5.1.2: History can be understood by using a variety of primary and secondary sources and tools.