Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
Participants engage in activities to explore strategies that can increase the intentional use of student choice by bridging content and student interest. These strategies provide opportunities for students to feel they have some control or ownership in their learning environment, which can make learning... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: July 5th, 2024
In this session, participants will reinforce their understanding of authentic teaching and learning using the instructional strategy QC2E (question, claim, evidence, and explanation). They also will work in content areas to create meaningful questions related to their disciplines. Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: January 23rd, 2024
In this professional development session, participants will engage in embedded instructional strategies that will allow them to examine the criteria for authentic assessments. Participants also will explore connections between the “whys” and “hows” of creating and using rubrics for authentic assessment... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: July 24th, 2023
This professional development session will showcase the use of the RAFT (role, audience, format, and topic) instructional strategy. The RAFT strategy supports the components of authenticity, deepening content knowledge and construction of knowledge (higher-order thinking). Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: July 5th, 2024
In this session, participants will be given a menu of instructional strategies to "taste test." Each of these strategies is research-based and supports components of authenticity. Once strategies have been chosen, the session will be built around a three-course meal of participants' chosen strategies.... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: November 7th, 2023
This professional development session focuses on the components of authentic learning. Participants will connect the components of authentic learning to a Rumpelstiltskin lesson. Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: August 6th, 2024
This professional development is designed to promote a college-going culture (life post-secondary school). College culture is typically thought of as a four-year university, but the term actually also entails other options after high school. As educators, we must prepare our students to think of their... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: August 14th, 2023
This activity models authentic, inquiry-based strategies and connects research to the benefits of student engagement. Participants will discuss the strategies they use to engage their students and then document these strategies for future faculty reference and collaboration. Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: July 24th, 2023
In this professional development session, participants discover how various instructional strategies can be used as authentic tools to create and facilitate student-centered lessons with the 5E Instructional Model. Individually, participants will choose a component of the 5E Instructional Model (Engage,... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: December 15th, 2023
The Interactive Classrooms in English/Language Arts (Short Version) 90-minute professional development focuses on exploring multiple technology applications to determine how they can be applicable for use in the English/Language Arts (ELA) classroom. Participants will explore various tech applications,... Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: December 13th, 2023
The Interactive Classrooms in Social Studies (Short Version) 90-minute professional development focuses on exploring multiple technology applications to determine how they can be applicable for use in the Social Studies classroom. Participants will explore various tech applications, choose at least... Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: December 13th, 2023
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: July 5th, 2024
Meeting students where they are can seem like a daunting task, particularly when it comes to the ever-changing world of technology. However, using intentionally designed games can make learning fun, provide opportunities for critical thinking, and enhance knowledge related to mindset. Participants will... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: January 29th, 2024
This professional development focuses on defining and promoting literacy strategies across all subject areas. Participants will examine how literacy components are necessary for their subject areas, identify the specific literacy strategies appropriate for their content, and discuss ways to implement... Read more »
Created by: Keristy Nieto
Date Updated: April 25th, 2024
Classroom climate has a strong impact on student learning. Not only does a positive environment impact students, it also positively impacts the teacher. In this session, teachers will explore resources to develop a positive learning environment and engage in collaboration to apply to their classroom. Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: October 19th, 2023
This session provides an overview for staff at site recipients of 2018 GEAR UP projects. Through a series of activities, staff will be introduced to the K20 Center, understand what GEAR UP is, share the value of authentic teaching and learning, and also communicate the value of college-going culture. Read more »
Created by: Jane Baber
Date Updated: November 9th, 2021
The Simulations and Models in Math and Science Conversations professional development session enables participants to apply research-based practices to support the use of simulations and models in the curriculum. Participants learn how to use simulations and models in classroom instruction and design... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: March 4th, 2024
This session explores the use of Google Apps through Google Drive. Participants will learn how to create, share, edit, and review different types of documents through Google Docs, Slides, and Forms. Participants will develop skills and apply the use of Google Apps for Education in their classrooms. Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: October 19th, 2023
The G Suite and Google Classroom PD focuses on exploring online instruction and implementation of technology in the classroom by using these innovative collaboration and productivity tools. Participants will collaborate to explore various components of G Suite, including Docs, Slides, Sheets, Forms,... Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: October 25th, 2023
Participants in this activity immerse themselves in the K20 LEARN website and design process. Working with a peer collaborator, they complete the planning, design, and development stages of lesson building. At the conclusion of the activity, their lesson will be published. Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: March 7th, 2024
This Authenticity and Chromebooks professional development session focuses on the relationship of authentic instruction and technology implementation in the classroom. Participants will identify, analyze, and apply components of authenticity in lessons and activities to further their pedagogical knowledge. Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: May 30th, 2024
This professional development session, built on theoretical constructs SAMR and Authentic Teaching and Learning, engages participants in an overview of LEGO Mindstorms and a model activity for Mindstorms EV3. Participants can expect to be engaged in a hands-on experience where they will apply research-based... Read more »
Created by: Taylor Thurston
Date Updated: May 21st, 2024
Participants will develop a broader understanding of what makes real-world phenomena engaging, student-centered, relevant, and grade-appropriate. During this session, participants will explore the role of phenomena in lessons that may be delivered virtually or in blended learning environments. By centering... Read more »
Created by: Alonna Smith
Date Updated: July 22nd, 2024
The Level Up for esports Professional Development Session will introduce the concept of esports clubs. Participants will explore resources and information on how esports clubs can promote college and career readiness, address potential challenges, and discover potential social/emotional benefits for... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Williams
Date Updated: September 13th, 2024
This professional development session applies research-based practices to support the use of educational technology (EdTech) in the classroom. Through exploring Scratch coding on a Raspberry Pi, 3D printing with TinkerCAD, and Swivl robots, participants will connect EdTech to science and engineering... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: May 30th, 2024
This two hour hybrid professional development focuses on increasing cohort teachers' knowledge of ISTE Educator and Student Standards. Participants will be able to explain the overall importance of the ISTE Standards, deconstruct and reflect upon each ISTE Standard with the end goal of constructing... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: May 30th, 2024
This professional learning session focuses on providing teachers with foundational knowledge and strategies they can use to promote student autonomy. Participants will explore research on best practices for self-regulated learning, analyze learner motivation, reflect on personal teaching styles, and... Read more »
Created by: Patricia McDaniels-Gomez
Date Updated: May 28th, 2024
This short professional development activity allows participants to interact with G Suite and the Explore button and identify its use in the classroom. Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: July 10th, 2024
In this session, participants will explore authentic approaches to literacy and comprehension using literature circles and modernized role cards that fit the needs of today's ELA classroom. Read more »
Created by: Patricia McDaniels-Gomez
Date Updated: May 31st, 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
How can instructional strategies be modified and changed to fit classroom needs? In this interactive session, participants explore how the 3-2-1 instructional strategy is flexible enough to fit the needs of any content area. Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: September 4th, 2024
This professional learning session will focus on how to incorporate a love of reading and student choice into all classes. Participants will explore a variety of authentic strategies that support reading comprehension, substantive conversations, and student choice to gain a deeper understanding that... Read more »
Created by: Patricia McDaniels-Gomez
Date Updated: July 5th, 2024
Be ready to move! Classroom practices that engage and maintain student interest while promoting student-centered learning and real-world connections are highlighted in this presentation. Participants will use video technology to understand how students can communicate their learning in a new and exciting... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: September 18th, 2024
During this session, participants practice formative assessment strategies that get students moving. They walk, dance, vote, and debate their way to authentic learning experiences. Using multiple resources from the K20 LEARN website, participants leave the session with easily customized strategies that... Read more »
Created by: Jared Whaley
Date Updated: May 2nd, 2023
In this session, participants experience the START app, an augmented reality app that is used for campus visits. Participants share their practices for campus visits and collaborate on ways to use the START app with students. Read more »
Created by: William Thompson
Date Updated: July 14th, 2023
Districts review their previous Strategic Action Plans. They work to adjust their plan for updated student achievement data. Leaders determine action steps to keep, delete, or add for the next 3 years. Read more »
The session aims to answer the question of how technology can be effectively utilized to facilitate authentic learning experiences. It will guide teachers in generating action steps to nurture authentic learning with technology. Participants will explore the essential elements of authentic learning... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: August 28th, 2023
This session provides an overview for staff at site recipients of the 2023 GEAR UP for LIFE project. The session aims to introduce staff to the K20 Center, explain what GEAR UP is, highlight the value of authentic teaching and learning, and communicate the value of college-going culture. Read more »
Created by: Sherry Franklin
Date Updated: December 15th, 2023
The Leading Educators in Authentic Development (LEAD) workshop is a series of professional learning sessions to develop teachers’ skills to lead professional development at their school sites. This workshop features four sessions over a two-day period. This third session focuses on developing a foundational... Read more »
Created by: Mariah Warren
Date Updated: November 11th, 2024
The Leading Educators in Authentic Development (LEAD) workshop is a series of professional learning sessions that develop teachers’ skills in leading professional development at their school sites. This workshop features four sessions over a two-day period. This fourth session, Leading Educators in... Read more »
Created by: Mariah Warren
Date Updated: November 11th, 2024
This activity is part of a series of professional learning activities that can be used to support a group book study. Over the course of this activity, participants collaborate in small groups and create affinity maps that will aid them as they work to establish norms. These norms will be enforced by... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: August 27th, 2024
This resource is part of a series of professional learning activities that can be used to support a group book study. In each section, you will be able to select from several activities that will enable you and the other participants in your book study group to think critically about the reading. The... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: September 3rd, 2024
This lesson is to be used after students have reached the point in an application process that calls for a letter of recommendation. However, it can also be used to generate a generic recommendation letter that can later be revised for a specific purpose. Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: October 2nd, 2023
College2Career Forums (C2CF), a series of focused, career-specific explorations, have been planned for the top requested careers. In these day-long experiences, students will travel to a PSI (Post Secondary Institution) to explore a common aspect of the career through hands-on activities. Armed with... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: August 22nd, 2024
This workshop prepares student for the ACT test by utilizing several K20 Instructional Strategies. The workshop is designed to be an after-school program lasting for seven weeks and including one 2-hour session each week. Sessions will be broken up into reading/ELA and science/math. This resource provides... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: July 15th, 2022
Though the traditional five-paragraph essay is a great foundational tool, writing beyond the traditional high school environment can take many forms. One form is known as an infographic, combining visuals with researched information. In this club activity, students gain an introduction to the infographic... Read more »
Created by: James Morris
Date Updated: June 26th, 2024
High school is an excellent place for students to begin honing their research and writing skills. Practicing these skills enables students to become better writers and thinkers. This activity could easily apply to clubs that have a project component which may require research, such as robotics club... Read more »
Created by: Sherry Franklin
Date Updated: June 26th, 2024
In this reading ACT prep activity, students view a short video about ACT reading tips and reflect on what they have learned about the ACT reading section so far. Students then review cause and effect relationships by reading a passage about the Cold War and then answer ten ACT-style questions. This... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: February 20th, 2024
This lesson focuses on scaffolding the use of the Get a Life college and career simulation game in the classroom, specifically targeting career awareness in middle school students. Participants will play the game and experience classroom activities designed to process the gameplay and facilitate discussion... Read more »
Created by: Shayna Pond
Date Updated: September 19th, 2024
The Career Expo provides an opportunity for students to meet with representatives across 16 different career clusters. Postsecondary institutions and community leaders will provide students with a broad overview of numerous careers and postsecondary programs. Students will learn about careers in business... Read more »
Created by: Will Markham
Date Updated: August 19th, 2024
The observation stage of the coaching cycle provides the instructional coach with an opportunity to observe the agreed-upon learning activity from the goal-setting stage. The coach evaluates progress made toward the goal and determines recommendations for improvement. The teacher facilitates the observation... Read more »
Created by: Brittany Bowens
Date Updated: October 24th, 2024
Students will analyze President Lyndon B. Johnson's speech on voting rights. Students will also do a quick write regarding the current condition of voting rights in the United States using content from the speech and current events to substantiate their claims. Read more »
Created by: Milton Bowens
Date Updated: September 20th, 2022
Voting Rights
Students will use close reading strategies to analyze symbolism in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven." The class will begin by observing symbols being displayed on the board, transition into recognizing the main symbol in the poem, and finally create a symbolic poem of their own. Through collaborative exercises,... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: May 18th, 2023
Symbolism
In this lesson, students will explore conservation of mechanical energy and the relationship that it has with work. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: February 21st, 2024
Work and Energy
In this lesson, students will closely examine the social problems that emerged in American society as a result of industrialization. Students will interpret and evaluate primary sources from the early 20th Century to understand how photography and journalism exposed desperate social conditions and political... Read more »
Created by: Roger Jackson
Date Updated: September 9th, 2022
Key Figures in the Progressive Movement
Students will create three-dimensional representations of volumes with known cross sections in order to better understand what the solids look like and to better calculate volume. Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: June 22nd, 2023
Volumes With Known Cross Sections
Students explore exponential functions by investigating exponential decay. Students should already have an introduction to exponential equations before starting this lesson. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 17th, 2023
Exponential Decay
In this lesson, students will explore, learn, and connect concepts of Intermolecular Forces (IMFs) to physical phenomena. Prerequisite knowledge would be that bonding exists (that is, there is continuum from non-polar covalent to ionic bonding) as well as the formation of ions and electron configuration.... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 25th, 2024
Intermolecular Forces
Every story has at least two sides. While students may accept this idea in everyday life, they do not often explore this idea in literature. In this lesson, students will examine point of view in a familiar children's story from an author or narrator's perspective. Students will also examine other characters'... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: October 9th, 2024
Point of View
In this lesson, students learn to effectively identify and analyze themes in both fiction and nonfiction texts. Students evaluate universal theme sets then find examples of these themes in articles and passages from literature. Finally, students demonstrate their understanding of theme statements by... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: October 24th, 2024
Theme
This lesson encourages students to analyze immigration patterns and policies in the United States and explore some of the experiences of Asian immigrants. Students will analyze statements about immigration and decide whether they are always, sometimes, or never true, delve into the history of immigration... Read more »
Created by: David Paulson
Date Updated: September 7th, 2022
Teaching With Technology
This lesson breaks down the components of a function through the metaphor of a function "machine." Students will design their own function vending machines, identify the products they will sell and the prices of those products, and evaluate each others' machines to build a function from the information... Read more »
Created by: Brittany VanCleave
Date Updated: December 2nd, 2024
Functions (Domain and Range)
This two-part lesson includes a variety of pre-reading activities to prepare students to actively read Shakespeare's tragedy, "Othello." Part 2 of this lesson involves predicting characters, settings, problems, and outcomes of the play. Moreover, students decide what else they would like to discover... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 22nd, 2023
Pre-Reading strategies
Comparing Congruent and Similar Triangles
Students will develop definitions of congruent and similar figures and use the definitions to find the missing sides and/or angles of congruent triangles. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 10th, 2022
Comparing Congruent and Similar Triangles
In this lesson, students will use self-reflection to create a piece of descriptive writing. Students will use sensory details, organizational strategies, and the revision process to produce a short descriptive piece of writing. Read more »
Created by: Keristy Nieto
Date Updated: September 12th, 2024
Creating and Editing Descriptive Writing
Students explore how different cultures have contributed to the United States of America. We are made of many, but we are one nation. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 29th, 2020
Respect for Cultural Diversity
The students will engage in a lesson that explores speaking and listening in a variety of circumstances. Students will discover how successful speaking and listening can influence our discussions with other individuals and how it can affect the success and clarity in which we share information and ideas... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 18th, 2022
Speaking and Listening
In this lesson, students will investigate the qualitative characteristics of waves. The next lesson in this three-part series focuses on the quantitative characteristics of waves. Read more »
Created by: Danny Mattox
Date Updated: June 26th, 2023
Qualitative Characteristics of Waves
Of all of the amazing skills that students possess, perhaps there is none greater than the ability to argue! Throw a grammar lesson in front of them, and most tune out immediately—the subject matter simply does not get them excited–-but tell your students that the goal for the day is to get into an... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 10th, 2023
Grammar and Parts of Speech
In this lesson, students will analyze primary and secondary sources to determine the push and pull factors that led immigrants to come to the United States by the millions in the 1880s through the 1920s. It will also examine the immigrant experience upon arriving in the United States, including the... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 21st, 2024
U.S. History
Setting and Conflict
In this lesson, students experiment with changing the settings in well-known fairy tales and examine how conflict might change in a different setting. Students explore the Prologue from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" and analyze how the setting affects the conflict. After analyzing and comparing different... Read more »
Created by: Shelby Blackwood
Date Updated: September 13th, 2024
Setting and Conflict
This lesson examines the phenomenon of coral bleaching as a context for learning about photosynthesis. Students investigate photosynthesis' inputs and outputs using an online simulation activity and connect these elements to the relationship between coral and their symbiotic algae. Student will also... Read more »
Created by: Heather Shaffery
Date Updated: June 26th, 2023
Photosynthesis and Coral Reef Health
In this lesson, students will learn about China’s Civil War from 1945-1949. Participating in a discussion about why people rebel against their governments, they will analyze an excerpt from an article about the life of peasants in China prior to the conflict under the Kuomintang rule and an article... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: November 26th, 2024
China's Civil War
In this lesson, students use an online fossil database to explore changes in life forms throughout the history of life on Earth. Students also make predictions about environmental changes and how those changes affect organisms living in different environments. Students then analyze anatomical similarities... Read more »
Created by: Alonna Smith
Date Updated: August 10th, 2022
Evidence of Common Ancestry and Diversity
In this lesson, students will engage in a hands-on learning activity centered around a geometric construct called a hexomino. Similar to the more familiar domino (with two squares fused together on a side), a hexomino consists of six squares fused together. Students will (1) use spatial reasoning skills... Read more »
Created by: Amber Stokes
Date Updated: June 17th, 2022
Area, Perimeter, Spatial Reasoning, and Patterns
Hierarchical Organization of Multicellular Organisms
This lesson is part of a series titled "Woman Crush Wednesday" in which we look at how female scientists have shaped our view of science. In this biology lesson, students will explore the contributions of Terese LaRose, a histotechnologist. Students will learn about the different levels of organization... Read more »
Created by: Mariah Warren
Date Updated: August 10th, 2022
Hierarchical Organization of Multicellular Organisms
This lesson examines the role of organizations such as the Black Panther Party in advocating for social justice during the Civil Rights Movement. Using texts, images, and the Black Panther Party's Ten Point Program, students learn how the Black Panther Party fought against social injustices. By the... Read more »
Created by: Mariana DeLoera
Date Updated: February 27th, 2023
The Civil Rights Movement and The Black Panther Party
Beginning just before students read "Tulsa Burning" by Anna Myers, this companion lesson provides a contextual understanding of people, places, and power in the Tulsa Race Massacre. In the first of the series of lessons, students will be introduced to the concept of a flash point in science and compare... Read more »
Created by: Nicole Watkins
Date Updated: February 21st, 2024
Tulsa Race Massacre
This lesson focuses on how to analyze and solve systems of linear equations by using the substitution and elimination methods. Students will use their prior knowledge of the components of a system to solve problems algebraically. Students will identify, solve, and write equations using substitution... Read more »
Created by: Brittany VanCleave
Date Updated: August 10th, 2023
Systems of Linear Equations: Substitution and Elimination
Students will inquire about what is happening in a photo. At first, they might say that it is the ocean or propose that it is a beach on an island or strip of land. As they view two more photos, they will see evidence of an oil spill. When they look back at the original photo, they will begin to see... Read more »
Created by: Crystal Young
Date Updated: May 31st, 2023
Humans Impact the Earth: How students can be part of the solution?
There is a special kind of magic in hearing the words you have written spoken out loud. Spoken word poetry is meant to be heard and performed rather than read silently from a page. In this lesson, students analyze the techniques spoken word poets use to engage an audience and examine the devices they... Read more »
Created by: Shelby Blackwood
Date Updated: September 12th, 2024
Techniques in Spoken Word Poetry
In this lesson, students will engage in several activities to understand Machiavelli's political writing, "The Prince." Students analyze excerpts from "The Prince," view a video about Machiavelli, participate in an activity to examine Machiavellian characteristics, and have a class debate about the... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: July 29th, 2022
The Political Thought of Machiavelli
In this second lesson of "The K20 Chronicle" journalism unit, students will practice their active listening skills to determine what makes a good interview. After some collaboration time, students will apply what they have learned to conduct their own interviews of the school's seniors, which will be... Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: July 5th, 2024
How to Conduct an Interview
In this second lesson of a media production unit, students interact with sound equipment, such as an audio mixer, subwoofer, loudspeaker, and a microphone, to determine the purpose of each piece of equipment. Students interact with media equipment, view a video about how to set up a stage and take notes,... Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
Date Updated: July 10th, 2024
Media Production, Lesson 2
In this lesson, students will explore the way in which culture is connected to the foods people eat. Students will examine how their own favorite foods are connected to their cultural identities and read Amy Tan's short story "Fish Cheeks." Read more »
Created by: Lisa Loughlin
Date Updated: August 10th, 2023
Exploring Cultural Identity Through Food
Students will explore the aspects of visual contour, applying their findings by crafting a custom-designed "cookie cutter" using flexible metal materials. Students then create unique contour cookie designs. Subsequently, students plan and design how to effectively decorate their cookies using a range... Read more »
Created by: Beau Hawkins
Date Updated: August 22nd, 2024
Exploring Basic Principles of Shape and Contour in Art
This lesson provides an overview of yellow journalism and its impact on the Spanish-American War. Using hands-on activities and discussions, students explore the vocabulary and attributes of yellow journalism. Students also evaluate the field of journalism. Following completion of the lesson, students... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: August 15th, 2022
The Role of the Media in the Spanish-American War
This lesson analyzes the writings of Machiavelli and examines how he shaped political thought. Read more »
Research Project
In this lesson, students will explore the Doppler effect. They will practice by using a Doppler ball and the Doppler equation. Students will also learn how the Doppler effect is useful in our everyday lives with sirens and weather prediction. Read more »
Created by: Sherry Franklin
Date Updated: July 24th, 2023
The Doppler Effect
In this lesson, students will dive deeper into what Greek and Latin roots mean and how and why they are embedded into our everyday vocabulary. Using hands-on activities, students will examine specific root meanings and where they come from. Next, they will watch an interview with a former professor... Read more »
Created by: Lisa Loughlin
Date Updated: June 22nd, 2023
Examining Greek and Latin Word Parts
This lesson focuses on events that led up to and occurred during the "Space Race" between the United States (U.S.) and the Union of Soviet Socialists Republic (U.S.S.R.). The lesson introduces students to the astronauts, cosmonauts, scientists, and politicians who played pivotal roles on both sides.... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: May 24th, 2023
The Space Race
In this lesson, students gather information about traditional native homes before learning about the design of the First Americans Museum (FAM). Students next work in groups to create a design for a community center for a tribe. They write press releases to advertise their community center's design... Read more »
Created by: Patricia McDaniels-Gomez
Date Updated: February 1st, 2024
Traditional Tribal Architecture
Students investigate the particle properties of waves by discharging electroscopes and take notes using the Cornell Note System. The teacher performs a demonstration of discharging an electroscope with light. The students investigate the photoelectric effect using a simulation. Then using the Cornell... Read more »
Created by: Sherry Franklin
Date Updated: August 22nd, 2023
The Photoelectric Effect
In this lesson, students observe standing waves in strings, rods, pipes, and hoops through videos and teacher demonstrations. Students investigate the ‘particle in a box’ problem using a PhET simulation, which presents the electron as a wave with discrete wavelengths. Students investigate wave functions... Read more »
Created by: Chris Yohn
Date Updated: August 22nd, 2023
Wave Properties of Particles
In this lesson, students explore the celebration of Diwali while practicing expository writing skills. Students read and summarize the various legends of Diwali and the significance of each day of the festival. Next, students create anchor charts for each day using symbols, images, and their paraphrased... Read more »
Created by: Lisa Loughlin
Date Updated: November 6th, 2023
Exploring the Festival of Lights Through Expository Writing
How do we keep the library organized? In this lesson, students reflect on their prior knowledge of libraries and librarians using a KWL chart. Then, students practice shelving virtually before jigsawing a reading about Melvil Dewey and the Dewey Decimal System. After watching some videos on shelving,... Read more »
Created by: Jessica Armstrong
Date Updated: November 15th, 2024
Library Training
In this lesson, students will read “They’re Made Out of Meat” by Terry Bisson and analyze its dialogue structure. They will focus on the significance of punctuation marks such as quotation marks, commas, and ellipses in conveying tone and meaning within a conversation. Through guided analysis and group... Read more »
Created by: DeLayna Basham
Date Updated: September 25th, 2024
Do you enjoy painting, chalking, drawing cartoons, or creating digital artwork but are unsure what careers these interests can lead to? If so, you’re not alone! It’s a common myth that art is only a hobby. In reality, there are many career opportunities that people with creative skills can pursue, including... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: November 23rd, 2022
