Multimedia Curriculum Kits
CET Learning Services has created a variety of award-winning and highly-acclaimed educational kits aligned with Ohio Academic Content Standards. These kits can also be ordered for your classroom. To order, call 513-345-6566.
YOU AT THE ZOO
Are gorillas more likely to be right handed than left handed? Can ants really be farmers? Go on a trip with Thane Maynard, Director of the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, to find out! In You at the Zoo, Thane and the You at the Zoo Team lead students on explorations to find out how fast cheetahs run, what it takes to be a bird, and just what happens when you tickle a sensitive plant. Brought to you by project partners CET, ThinkTV and the Cincinnati Zoo, this multimedia project is designed to model an inquiry-based approach for doing science.
VERTICES: GEOMETRY MEETS ART
Vertices: Geometry Meets Art focuses on Ohio's Academic Content Standards in Geometry and Visual Art for grades K-2. Components of the project include Professional Development videos for educators, including pre-assessment tips, questioning strategies, building an effective rubric and effective feedback techniques; student videos on predicting new shapes, recognizing geometric shapes, creating 3-D objects and building 3-D buildings; lesson plans and assessment tools; Careers in Math videos, and additional resources.
TEST THE WATERS
Test the Waters is a standards based multi-media project designed to help eleventh grade students and community members understand the processes involved in providing safe and clean water for drinking and recreation. Test the Waters video takes an inside look at water treatment facilities as local water quality experts discuss the issues that threaten this precious resource. Through the video and the accompanying resources, students will learn how our community is working to address the problems caused by aging water infrastructure and what actions citizens can take to be good stewards of our water supply. Test the Waters is based on the Academic Content Standards in Science and Social Studies.
Safe Passage is a multimedia curriculum based on Ohio's academic standards in language arts and social studies for sixth- through ninth-graders. By engaging in this hands-on experience featuring the Underground Railroad, both teachers and students begin their own journeys. They explore the theme through powerful fiction and nonfiction reading, thought-provoking writing assignments and the moving stories of the people and places of the Underground Railroad.
PRODUCING OHIO: CREATING OUR ECONOMY
Producing Ohio: Creating Our Economy is an interactive multimedia economics curriculum for Ohio's fifth and sixth grade students. These dynamic and entertaining cross-curricular lessons give students the knowledge and tools necessary to succeed on the Ohio Proficiency Tests.
BEHIND THE GLASS
Behind the Glass targets students in fourth, fifth and sixth grades and provides resources to teachers and students to increase their understanding of the visual arts as a tool for teaching and learning in all curricular areas and is a multimedia learning experience for students using the Cincinnati Art Museum's Steckelmann Collection of African Art.