Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
Students will use a graphing tool to analyze basic transformations on linear, absolute value, and quadratic parent graphs in order to create general rules about function transformations. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 26th, 2025
Function Transformations
In this lesson, students explore the differences between inductive and deductive logic and how to use that reasoning to draw logical conclusions. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 18th, 2025
Inductive and Deductive Logic
In this lesson, students will determine the credibility of a source. Students will first examine professional writing and web pages, then they will use a reflective strategy to help them analyze and determine the credibility of sources. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: October 14th, 2025
Evaluating Sources
This lesson addresses writing linear equations when given a graph. Students will use their knowledge of slope and y-intercept to analyze linear graphs and represent what they see graphically as an equation. This lesson also offers an opportunity to reiterate the meaning of slope and y-intercept, while... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: October 8th, 2025
Writing Linear Equations: Graphs
In this lesson, students will be introduced to general types of chemical reactions. They will look for patterns to group similar reactions together, then use that as a way to put academic language to those groups. A basic understanding of chemical reactions and notation is necessary to complete this... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 4th, 2025
Classifying Chemical Reactions
In this lesson, students will learn how to predict electron configuration and valence electrons by exploring patterns within the periodic table. Students will discover that elements are arranged in increasing order of their atomic number in the periodic table, and then the elements repeat their properties... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 14th, 2025
Introduction to Periodicity and Electron Configuration
This lesson is an investigation of the relationship between force, mass, and acceleration (F=ma). The lesson includes a lab activity, research poster, and reflection to introduce and reinforce Newton's 2nd Law of Motion. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 4th, 2025
Newton's 2nd Law of Motion
Students gather and analyze data, identifying all possible data that is less than, less than or equal to, equal to, greater than or equal to, or greater than the generated line of best fit. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 21st, 2025
Linear Inequalities
In this lesson, students toss balls of trash, or "trashketballs," into a wastebasket, recording their shooting percentage at various distances from the basket. With distances measured and percentages figured, students create a scatter plot and a line of best fit to make a linear model of the shooting... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 21st, 2025
Scatter Plots and Lines of Best Fit
Students will physically model the concept of simplifying algebraic expressions as a class then apply this knowledge to written expressions. This is a great lesson for both introducing, as well as remediating, the concept of combining like terms. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 12th, 2025
Simplifying Algebraic Expressions
