Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
The "Reading Realities: Using E-Readers to Engage and Support Students' Critical Reading Skills" professional development focuses on using Kindle e-readers and Google Expeditions to support student reading engagement. Research suggests that students are more eager to read when using an e-reader or mobile... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: September 14th, 2020
In this interactive session, participants will explore a career roadmap and experience a mini-virtual career expo. Participants will leave with a variety of ideas about implementing virtual career experiences in their own GEAR UP programs. Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: September 4th, 2021
This 120-minute professional development focuses on understanding how virtual reality (VR) can take teaching and learning to a higher level through real-world connections, 21st-century skills, and critical thinking. Participants will explore VR, and then use VR resources to create a lesson or classroom... Read more »
Created by: Mandy Green
Date Updated: February 24th, 2022
This 120-minute professional development focuses on understanding how virtual reality, or VR can take teaching and learning to a higher level through real-world connections, 21st century skills and critical thinking. Participants will explore VR, and then use VR resources to create a lesson or classroom... Read more »
This session examines the barriers, benefits, and process of creating lessons that touch on standards from more than one subject area. Participants view samples of student products from multidisciplinary lessons, analyze a K20 LEARN lesson, and work to create ideas for collaborative lessons in their... Read more »
Created by: Ryan Rahhal
Date Updated: February 10th, 2023
In this professional development session, participants will evaluate vocabulary students might encounter in college and career readiness programming. Participants will engage in strategies that reinforce authentic vocabulary instruction of Tier 2 words. Read more »
Each year, teachers have the opportunity to apply for the Leading Educators in Authentic Development (LEAD) program. Teachers who participate in LEAD receive professional development throughout the year from K20 professional development coordinators and specialists. In turn, each participant has opportunities... Read more »
Centered on the phenomenon of the Blue Fugates, students will explore how recessive traits increase in a population using a Punnett square activity, genotype/phenotype ratios and allele frequency calculations, and pedigree analysis. By the end of the lesson they will be able to explain how social, genetic,... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 21st, 2022
Recessive Gene Inheritance
This lesson focuses on eliminating the emotional fear of mathematics by allowing students to evaluate where they are on the math spectrum and identify their goals moving forward. Students explore math concepts taught in past years and analyze their math knowledge to assess their relationship with mathematics.... Read more »
Created by: Brittany VanCleave
Date Updated: June 22nd, 2023
A Mathematical Growth Mindset
In this lesson, students will play basketball in the classroom to gather data and calculate their statistical chances of making a successful shot. Next, students will step into the role of an NBA statistician and determine probability using real-world scores. Then, using probability analysis, students... Read more »
Created by: Amber Stokes
Date Updated: May 26th, 2022
Probability
In this fun and engaging lesson, students will learn what adjectives are and how they are used. Students will read or listen to the story "Dragons Love Tacos," by Adam Rubin. Then, students will engage in a learning game: they each pick a different kind of food and try to describe the food with adjectives... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: August 4th, 2021
Adjectives
Comparing and Contrasting Today’s Classrooms with Classrooms from the Past
Students will explore and explain how primary sources can help us learn about history. The class will use photos from approximately 100 years ago to discover how past classrooms compare with today’s classrooms. Students will then explore possibilities for future classrooms and draw their vision of how... Read more »
Created by: Patricia Turner
Date Updated: February 10th, 2021
Comparing and Contrasting Today’s Classrooms with Classrooms from the Past
In this lesson, students will explore and explain why plants lean toward a window and discuss other adaptations of plants. This lesson can take up to six weeks if you choose to study the full plant growth cycle with students. Read more »
Created by: Delia Gietzen
Date Updated: April 2nd, 2021
Plant Adaptations, Growth, and Tropisms
Students will explore the relationship between the fossil record and the digestive system using coprolites (i.e., fossilized poop) as a phenomenon. By investigating the chemical and physical processes of digestion and connecting these to prior knowledge of fossil formation, students will explain what... Read more »
Created by: Heather Shaffery
Date Updated: August 2nd, 2023
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: May 5th, 2023
Comparing Primary and Secondary Sources
In this lesson, students will build on their prior knowledge of solving equations to learn how to solve absolute value equations. Students will then compare and contrast the four types of equations: two-step, multi-step, literal, and absolute value equations. This is the fourth lesson of four in the... Read more »
Created by: Amber Stokes
Date Updated: October 8th, 2022
Absolute Value Equations
In this lesson, students learn about the effects of a high population density and what it would be like to live in one of the world's most densely populated areas—Tokyo, Japan—and it's suburbs. Students will analyze pictures, population density maps, and a short article to build their understanding... Read more »
Created by: Shayna Pond
Date Updated: July 15th, 2022
Population Density of Japan
In this lesson students use primary and secondary sources to learn about history. Students compare and contrast how primary and secondary sources may offer different views and perceptions of events. Students demonstrate understanding by creating their own primary and secondary sources. Read more »
Comparing Primary and Secondary Sources
In this geometry lesson, students will recall vocabulary about a circle, use their knowledge of midpoint and distance formulas to write the equation of a circle, and explore the connection between the equation of a circle and the Pythagorean Theorem. This is a multimodality lesson, which means it includes... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: August 17th, 2023
Writing the Equation of a Circle
In this lesson, students will create a composition using a limited number of musical elements by selecting from a menu of pitches, dynamics, rhythms, and symbols. Students will then reflect on their experience and engage in a discussion concerning the benefits and drawbacks of musical limitations in... Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
Date Updated: June 7th, 2022
Embracing Musical Limitations in Songwriting
This is a lesson used to provide context for the Holocaust prior to teaching about the involvement of the United States and other Allied nations in the Nuremberg Trials. Students will watch a short film about the Holocaust called "Pigeon" and comment about what they notice. Next, students will use a... Read more »
Created by: Becky Lockler
Date Updated: August 24th, 2023
Introduction to the Holocaust
In this lesson, students will explore some culinary aspects of French culture to learn about stereotypes and how learning about other cultures affects our conception of others. Students will define the word “stereotype.” After doing so, they will share stereotypes they have regarding French food, watch... Read more »
Created by: Macey Dedmon
Date Updated: April 20th, 2023
Examining Stereotypes in French Cuisine
Escher's Terrific Tessellations: The Art of Tile Transformations
In this follow-up lesson to "Diamonds, Not Just a Girl's Best Friend," students explore an app that creates Escher-like drawings. Students discuss the principles of design in the drawings. Students discuss Escher and then discuss similarities of the Plains tribes art that precede Escher. Students reflect... Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
Date Updated: August 15th, 2023
Escher's Terrific Tessellations: The Art of Tile Transformations
In this lesson, students will watch and reflect on Shark Tank pitches before brainstorming business ideas with the class. After learning about the basic components of a business plan, groups will develop a business plan specific to the product they brainstormed. As a culmination to the project, groups... Read more »
Created by: Lydia Baker
Date Updated: September 12th, 2023
Draft a Business Plan Using Shark Tank
Students will define “stereotype.” After doing so, they will share stereotypes they have regarding Hispanic food, watch a few videos that will explain or dispel those stereotypes, and come to a consensus on whether stereotypes are useful. When they have finished the discussion, they will construct a... Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
Date Updated: September 22nd, 2023
Examining Stereotypes in Hispanic Cuisine
Students participate in a session about careers related to gaming and technology. Students first brainstorm what they love about gaming and technology and the skills needed for success. Next students analyze job postings for careers related to gaming and technology, then connect careers in these areas... Read more »
What came first, the chicken or the egg? Oftentimes, Positive Mental Attitude (PMA) and Growth Mindset seem as if they are one and the same. During this activity, students will explore the importance of developing a Positive Mental Attitude (PMA) in order to establish a Growth Mindset and will finally... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: October 18th, 2022
What came first, the chicken or the egg? Oftentimes, Positive Mental Attitude (PMA) and Growth Mindset seem as if they are one and the same. During this activity, students will explore the importance of developing a Positive Mental Attitude (PMA) in order to establish a Growth Mindset and will finally... Read more »
In this activity, students will recall perimeter and area and apply their knowledge to ACT-style problems. These problems will require students to think in a way that is expected for college and career readiness. This includes both recalling essential skills and applying knowledge to solve area and... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: September 22nd, 2023