Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
This lesson will break down the components of a function and the relationship it has to real-world contexts. Students will recall their knowledge of inputs and outputs with a function machine. Students will simplify functions and then evaluate the functions. Students will practice simplifying polynomials... Read more »
Created by: Brittany VanCleave
Date Updated: June 12th, 2024
Function Notation
This lesson addresses rules for exponents. Students will discover the rules for exponents through an exploration of numerical expressions and visual representations of exponents. Prerequisites for this lesson include an understanding of the components of an exponent. This lesson allows students to explore... Read more »
Created by: Amber Stokes
Date Updated: September 30th, 2024
Exponent Rules: Digital Breakout
This lesson introduces identifying and classifying numbers with an emphasis on the subsets of real numbers. Students will recall proper and improper fractions, repeating and terminating decimals, integers, and counting numbers. Students will learn about the symbols used to represent complex, real, rational,... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: March 13th, 2023
Identifying and Classifying Numbers
In this lesson, students explore concepts of perimeter, area, surface area, and volume while engaging in hands-on construction of origami boxes. Students collaborate to discover the formulas for volume and surface area. Then students listen to a civil engineer and learn how he uses volume and surface... Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: June 7th, 2023
Surface Area and Volume of Rectangular Prisms
Students will explore the relationship between the fossil record and the digestive system using coprolites (i.e., fossilized poop) as a phenomenon. Students will explain what coprolites can tell us about the diet of the organisms they came from by investigating the chemical and physical processes of... Read more »
Created by: Heather Shaffery
Date Updated: October 16th, 2024
Digestion and the Fossil Record
In this lesson, students will use primary and secondary sources to learn about history. Students will compare and contrast how primary and secondary sources can offer different views and perceptions of events. Students will demonstrate understanding by creating their own primary and secondary sources. Read more »
Created by: Patricia Turner
Date Updated: September 11th, 2024
Comparing Primary and Secondary Sources
This lesson is Part 3 of "Journey of the Isolated Variable," a four-part lesson series on solving different types of equations. In this lesson, students will build on the equation-solving knowledge they gained in Parts 1 and 2 in order to solve literal equations. Read more »
Created by: Amber Stokes
Date Updated: March 15th, 2023
Literal Equations
Students will sort 14 star spectra and create a star classification system to develop science classification skills. Through analysis of figures that describe the OBAFGKM classification system and temperature effects on element absorption in stars, students will learn that star spectra can be used to... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: July 9th, 2024
Light, Stars, and Blackbody Radiation
This lesson focuses on the notation for writing domain and range of a function. Students will recall their knowledge of domain and range then formalize their understanding of algebraic, set, and interval notation. This lesson is designed to be taught at the beginning of an Algebra II course. There are... Read more »
Created by: Brittany VanCleave
Date Updated: August 25th, 2022
Domain and Range Notations
Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences
Sentence structure adds variety, interest, and impact to a text. Different sentence structures are composed of clauses and combinations of clauses, and these add varied sentence lengths and styles to a text. This lesson asks students to identify and practice writing simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex... Read more »
Created by: Jane Baber
Date Updated: August 29th, 2024
Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences
In this introductory lesson to the "Lord of the Flies" unit of study, students learn what a microcosm is, what its significance to this story is, and how to build a microcosm of their own. The author's use of the microcosm to symbolize human nature sets the stage for the unit and focuses on author William... Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: November 14th, 2024
I'm a Survivor
This lesson aims to help students develop an understanding of zoonotic diseases. In this lesson, students will explore how zoonotic diseases spread. Read more »
Created by: Mariah Warren
Date Updated: March 13th, 2023
Zoonotic Diseases
In this lesson, students will use the Desmos Studio graphing calculator to explore how changing the y-intercept or slope of a line affects the graph. They will find real items to serve as examples of lines with defined slopes and use Desmos Studio to find the linear functions that represent those items.... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: December 2nd, 2024
Slope-Intercept Form
In this second lesson of the What Is a Wave? unit, students will review key concepts from the first lesson using the Strike Out! strategy. Students will connect prior learning to new content by watching videos that demonstrate the speed of sound waves, and then will be introduced to the Triangle of... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: June 1st, 2023
Not the Bermuda Triangle
In this lesson, students will recall solving equations with rational exponents and radicals. Using graphs, students will recall evaluating and solving equations with function notation. Students then will learn how to address extraneous solutions and why they exist. Students will apply this new knowledge... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: August 14th, 2023
Extraneous Solutions
Discerning the Reliability and Credibility of Sources
In this lesson, students practice determining the relevance, reliability, and validity of information gathered while researching well-known urban legends. Students analyze the quality, usefulness, and accuracy of the sources they find using a provided framework. As their final product, students construct... Read more »
Created by: Shayna Pond
Date Updated: February 22nd, 2024
Discerning the Reliability and Credibility of Sources
This professional development session focuses on instilling an understanding of the framework of authentic learning through multiple tools, such as the 5E Model and LEARN Strategies, while keeping in mind the Oklahoma Academic Standards for Mathematics. The interactive session will give participants... Read more »
Created by: Brittany VanCleave
Date Updated: June 26th, 2024
This professional development session is the mathematics content-specific day of the Formative Assessment Institute. In this session, participants will learn what formative assessment looks like in a mathematics classroom and will create formative assessments to take back to their classrooms. Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: June 5th, 2024
This resource provides an overview of the TI-Nspire calculator. Participants engage in hands-on exploration of the TI-Nspire, learn basic operations, and discover pre-made classroom activities for the calculator. Participants also learn about teacher-student connectivity options and how the additional... Read more »
Created by: Lydia Baker
Date Updated: June 15th, 2023
This resource provides an overview of the TI-84 Plus. Participants engage in hands-on exploration of the TI-84 Plus, learn basic operations, and discover pre-made classroom activities for the calculator. Participants also learn about teacher-student connectivity options and how the additional technology... Read more »
Created by: Lydia Baker
Date Updated: May 25th, 2023
5E Lesson Writing Session 3: The LEARN Writing Process focuses participants on creating a LEARN lesson with the support of a content curriculum specialist. Participants begin the development of an Authentic 5E lesson that will be published to LEARN and taught to cohort students. Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: August 28th, 2024
Would you like to provide students the opportunity to get to know their TI-Nspire prior to its actual use? This resource provides an overview so students feel comfortable and confident with the device from the start. With this resource, students engage in hands-on exploration of the TI-Nspire and learn... Read more »
Created by: Lydia Baker
Date Updated: June 20th, 2023
Would you like to provide students the opportunity to get to know their TI-84 Plus prior to its actual use? This resource provides an overview so students feel comfortable and confident with the device from the start. With this resource, students engage in hands-on exploration of the TI-84 Plus and... Read more »
Created by: Lydia Baker
Date Updated: June 20th, 2023
In this English ACT prep activity, students review the content from the past nine prep activities. First, students review skills learned from week nine. Then, students practice questions reflective of the topics still confusing to them using Magoosh. Finally, they end the class revisiting their Goal... Read more »
Created by: Patricia McDaniels-Gomez
Date Updated: January 30th, 2024