Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
In this lesson, students become familiar with identifying, locating, and analyzing persuasive techniques in writing and multimodal compositions, including their own, by examining the ways in which commercials and infomercials employ these techniques. Using their new knowledge, students will write a... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 18th, 2021
Persuading Your Audience
In this lesson, students listen to a song while completing a painting activity. Students collaborate to paint a list of descriptive words on their canvases based on the song. Considering the song lyrics as poetry, students analyze the song, focusing on descriptive language and sensory details. Students... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: December 2nd, 2020
Communication/Using Descriptive Language
Using pictures related to pop culture as mentor texts, students will identify the archetypal figures represented. They will then be broken into small groups where they will choose a figure not previously identified to represent the archetype assigned to them and be asked to justify this choice to the... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: January 5th, 2021
Students are introduced to a more holistic view of doing the scientific method by using scientific thinking instead. Students will be challenged to review and revise what they already know about the scientific method. Students will investigate what it means to do science and discover why some science... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: December 2nd, 2020
Scientific Method Vs. Scientific Thinking
To support students' ability to write persuasive essays, this lesson will scaffold aspects of argumentation through paragraph development. Students will first review the use of evidence and reasoning to support a claim by performing a CER analysis of a comic strip. Next, students will work both collaboratively... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 2nd, 2020
Writing Paragraphs With Evidence and Reasoning
With Pear Deck, you can create interactive slide show presentations and use formative assessments and discussions to enhance learning. This application is available for free or as a paid version. It also integrates with Google. Read more »
Create various types of graphs to communicate your information and data. Read more »
Corkulous idea board is a way to collect, organize, and share your ideas. Read more »
Create beautiful things with this easy drop-and-drag graphic design tool. Read more »
Students will construct a watershed and discover how water flow impacts humans. IMPORTANT NOTE: Parts of the lesson are adjusted to meet each grade level's specific standard, so be sure to do the parts that correlate with your grade level. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 25th, 2020
Earth and Human Activity
