Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
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
Participants will gain an understanding of creating a college-going culture. Participants are asked to: a) analyze the significance of a college-going culture, b) assess the current college-going culture at their school site, and c) create a list of strategies that signal a college-going culture. Through... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: August 21st, 2023
The Building School and Classroom Community professional development focuses on building school identity among teachers and students. Participants will be empowered to select research-based strategies that create community and support learning for all students. Participants will create a vision for... Read more »
Created by: Karin Lange
Date Updated: August 10th, 2023
This professional development session focuses on increasing teachers' understanding of authentic science instruction and building their capacity to adapt lessons to more effectively implement authentic instructional practices. Participants will first assume the role of students to engage with an authentic... Read more »
Created by: Mariah Warren
Date Updated: May 30th, 2024
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
This professional development session focuses on insights and strategies for creating a college- and career-going culture in schools. Participants will be asked to: (1) analyze the significance of a college- and career-going culture, (2) assess the current college- and career-going culture at their... Read more »
Created by: Lacy Pennington
Date Updated: December 15th, 2023
The Creating 5E Lessons PD focuses on familiarizing participants with the 5E instructional model. The goal of the session is to immerse participants in an authentic 5E activity with an emphasis on each element of the 5E model. Participants will identify and describe the components of a 5E lesson and... Read more »
Created by: Robyn Hilger
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 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 28th, 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
The Interactive Classrooms for All Contents professional development focuses on exploring multiple technology resources to determine how they can be applicable for use in the classroom. Participants will explore various resources, choose at least one to apply in the classroom, and demonstrate its integration... Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: February 28th, 2024
Participants will experience a workshop session that provides the fundamentals of Essential Questions. They will then discover how they can use Essential Questions as a focus when lesson planning by creating their own content-specific Essential Questions. Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Williams
Date Updated: June 4th, 2024
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 session engages participants in a model learning activity that showcases how specific technologies that are typically teacher-centered can be authentically used to develop student-centered learning environments. Participants will explore interactive technologies such as Chromebooks and touchscreen... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: September 10th, 2024
This professional development activity is designed with math and science teachers in mind. Its aim is to provide teachers with research and an action plan for incorporating interactive technology, such as simulations and models, as an instructional tool. Simulations and Models in Math and Science Conversations... Read more »
Created by: Alexandra Parsons
Date Updated: June 5th, 2024
During this second day of the Formative Assessment Institute, participants focus on distinguishing assessment of learning, assessment for learning, and assessment as learning. Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: June 5th, 2024
During this session, participants will discover how the use of technology can assist students and their families in preparing for a postsecondary education or career. Participants will be given the opportunity to walk through the stages of creating an account and will explore the benefits and functions... Read more »
Created by: Ryan Rahhal
Date Updated: July 3rd, 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
In this session, participants explore themes from research on the benefits of extra/co-curricular activities and analyze the ways in which club activity design connects back to the research. Facilitators model guidance that participants can apply to their classrooms; this will provide educators with... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: June 26th, 2024
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 »
Some leadership practices feel as if they add to work demands, while others become a resource that lightens the weight of those demands. When leaders are supportive and have built trust-filled relationships with their staff, performance effort and quality increase. This professional learning session... Read more »
Created by: Shayna Pond
Date Updated: May 13th, 2024
This professional learning activity asks participants to reflect on meaningful learning experiences through the question, "What makes learning meaningful?" Participants build up a definition of meaningful learning as they progress through the activities. Participants will experience a lesson that models... Read more »
Created by: Mariah Warren
Date Updated: August 6th, 2024
In this professional development, participants will reflect on equity in their school. They will work in groups to create images that represent equity, read through an equity research brief for theory and practice, and discuss educational case studies and how they can work to provide equity in different... Read more »
Created by: Mariah Warren
Date Updated: August 6th, 2024
In this session, participants explore the Authenticity Framework and foundations for how people learn. The Authenticity Framework is a conceptual framework that promotes a meaningful, student-centered learning environment and encourages higher-order thinking. Participants will also explore excerpts... Read more »
Created by: Brittany Bowens
Date Updated: October 2nd, 2024
5E Lesson Writing Session 1: Authenticity and 5E Lessons focuses on building relationships with participants, examining different 5E lesson frameworks, and aligning 5E snapshots with the authentic teaching tool. Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: August 28th, 2024
In this session, participants will explore the authenticity component, student-centered learning. First, participants identify characteristics of student-centered learning environments. Next, participants consider common views regarding student engagement and how it affects learning. Participants will... Read more »
Created by: Brittany Bowens
Date Updated: October 14th, 2024
In this session, participants reflect on how they can partner with families to help students succeed in postsecondary education. Participants start with a reflection survey on family engagement, then work through family scenarios that focus on discovering each family's strengths and looking for opportunities... Read more »
Created by: Laura Buxton
Date Updated: August 22nd, 2024
In this lesson, students will explore how water behaves on various substrates (ground surfaces), what occurs during a flood, and the causes of flash floods. This lesson concluded with students designing and testing various floodplain models intended to mitigate the effects of flash floods. Acknowledgement:... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 22nd, 2023
Floodplains and Watershed Management
After reading a poem and article about the death of an African American man, students read an article about the death of an African American boy and write an elegy for him in response. While this lesson is currently aligned only to 9th grade standards, it would be appropriate to teach in grades 9th... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 14th, 2024
Reading & Writing Poetry
Banned Books, Censorship Part 2
This lesson is designed to take place following completion of another K20 lesson, "Trigger Warnings." Through collaboration, reading, and research, students will continue the study of a controversial work of literature by examining various perspectives on book banning. Students will establish their... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 10th, 2023
Banned Books, Censorship Part 2
Where is the best place to go on vacation? The worst? What are ways that your students could answer these questions descriptively? In this engaging lesson, students will practice descriptive writing skills by creating uniquely individual "Best/Worst of" lists in e-book format. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: March 11th, 2024
Writing to Engage and Entertain
By analyzing a variety of resources, students consider how style, format, and genre affect meaning and effectiveness. Students then craft an argument in a genre of their choice and present it to their classmates. While this lesson is aligned to 9th-grade standards, it would be appropriate to teach in... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 21st, 2024
Style, Format, and Genre
Students will activate prior knowledge and make connections to the post-WWII era in America by looking at images from the time period. In addition, students will read poems that depict contrasting points of view from the decade (the point of view of an American versus a Holocaust survivor resettled... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 30th, 2024
Characterization
Students will practice the skill of inferencing both collaboratively and independently by using images and Chapter 1 of Fredrick Douglass's narrative. Then, students will tie the skill of noticing and understanding unstated details to the big picture of comprehension. While this lesson is currently... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 26th, 2024
Inferences in the Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass Excerpt
This lesson introduces the importance of argument in everyday life. Students will identify arguments in order to build an initial understanding of claims, evidence, and reasoning, and the rhetorical situation: author’s purpose, audience, and context. While this lesson is currently aligned only to 11th-grade... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 23rd, 2024
Introduction to Argument
Students will be introduced to dimensional analysis by analyzing a veterinary lab result, focusing mainly on the metric dimensions of a tumor. Students use prior understanding of units to match a set of metric data to the English equivalents. Students will then determine the conversion factor that is... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 4th, 2024
Intro to Dimensional Analysis
Students will conduct a data-driven lab using common human phenotypes and present their findings to their peers in a Gallery Walk. Common genetic vocabulary will be researched by students and they will present their findings to the class. Students will connect common genetic themes with their earlier... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 26th, 2024
Mendelian Genetics
In this lesson, students connect to the essential question, "What do the effects of life events look like?" through the skill of summarizing. To answer that question, students summarize a slam poem, a short story, and a recent Presidential speech. To make a personal connection to the skill of summarizing,... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 13th, 2024
Summarizing
To assist students in their ability to determine a theme in literature, this lesson will introduce the concept of theme by using a children's book, although any piece of literature can be used with this lesson. Students will listen to a children's book, collaboratively distinguish between topic and... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 14th, 2023
Themes in Literature
In this lesson, students will engage in inquiry and literary components to help gain an understanding of and define interest groups, provide examples, and analyze how they affect the political process in the United States. Read more »
Created by: Clayton Canon
Date Updated: November 8th, 2022
American Federal Government
Students will work collaboratively to examine and deconstruct published arguments based on social issues important to them. Students will then evaluate each other's analysis of published arguments and reflect on issues in today's society. While this lesson is currently aligned only to 10th-grade standards,... Read more »
Created by: Keristy Nieto
Date Updated: August 20th, 2024
Part 1: Deconstructing Arguments
Students must use their geographical skills to create maps for a world following a zombie apocalypse. Students also identify "ideal" locations for human settlement using world maps. While this lesson aligns with world human geography, it was also adapted for AP world human geography. Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: November 9th, 2022
Location and Place
Students will investigate the similarity of reproduction, embryonic development, and DNA sequences to illustrate the indirect evidence for evolution. "How EGG-ceptional Are We?" is written for a general biology course. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 19th, 2024
Evolution: Embryonic Development
This lesson analyzes the impact of minor political parties on national elections. Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: November 17th, 2022
U.S Government
In this lesson, students explore the essential questions "Who am I?" and "What makes me, me?" through multimodal narrative writing. For this creative composition, students engage in preliminary reflective writing and in an up-close look at their thumbprints. Throughout this creative writing process,... Read more »
Created by: Jane Baber
Date Updated: August 22nd, 2024
Thumbprint Autobiography
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: December 2nd, 2024
Classifying Chemical Reactions
Students will identify common lab mistakes via simulated lab stations. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 22nd, 2023
Lab Safety
This lesson encourages student writing by combining an art project with a creative writing assignment. Through guided inquiry and responses, students elicit responses that inform their creative writing piece. While this lesson is currently aligned only to ninth grade standards, it would be appropriate... Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: November 22nd, 2022
Creative Writing
Students will use two-dimensional (2-D) figures and nets to explore three-dimensional (3-D) figures and will talk about how 3-D figures combine to create sculptures. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 15th, 2020
3-D Shapes
Students will use a graphing calculator to explore function transformations on polynomial (quadratic and cubic), radical (square root and cube root), and transcendental (exponential and logarithmic) functions. Students then generalize these transformations using function notation. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: April 5th, 2024
Function Transformations
In this lesson, students will listen to a song while completing a painting activity. Students will collaborate to paint a list of descriptive words on their canvases based on the song. Considering the song lyrics as poetry, students will analyze the song, focusing on descriptive language and sensory... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: October 8th, 2024
Communication: Using Descriptive Language
Students will research, present, and analyze the pros and cons of various forms of alternative energy. Read more »
Created by: Danny Mattox
Date Updated: May 18th, 2023
Science Literacy
Using Sketchnotes to Analyze Mood and the Components of Author’s Style
In this lesson, students use sketching to help them analyze the mood and elements of the author's style of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: October 17th, 2024
Using Sketchnotes to Analyze Mood and the Components of Author’s Style
In this lesson, students will critically examine how literary elements contribute to the theme of a text. Students will explore universal theme sets by examining pictures and engaging in the Four Corners strategy. Students will then identify a universal theme within a text by using the Why-Lighting... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: July 6th, 2023
Picture the Theme
Students will explore specific angle pair relationships that are created between a set of parallel lines and a transversal. After an understanding of the angle pairs is developed, students will then create a city map that demonstrates their ability to apply these angle pairs. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 17th, 2023
Parallel Lines Cut by a Transversal
Students will participate in a set of observational experiments, designed to help them come up with "good" evidence to back a claim they present. Students will learn about how to overcome flawed predictions with evidence and design good reasonable explanations. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 16th, 2024
Experimental Design & Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning
This activity will introduce the graphs of the sine and cosine functions. Students will discover how to write the equations of transformed sine and cosine graphs. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: October 2nd, 2023
Graphing Sine and Cosine
Students will explore the cultural characteristics that appear in various versions of the story "Little Red Riding Hood." Additionally, students will compare and contrast how the cultural characteristics appear in each story and how American authors have revamped the story to mirror popular culture... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: September 10th, 2024
Cultural Characteristics
During this interactive lesson, students will explore various map types, learn about the different features of maps, hone in on the unique qualities of their state's maps, and create their very own maps of the state of Oklahoma. Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: September 21st, 2020
Geography
History courses are filled with people who have "made" history. In this lesson, students will analyze historical figures and make connections about their place in history. Students will research an early American historical figure of their choice and examine their impact during their historical period,... Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: October 24th, 2024
Analyzing History
In this lesson, students will relate the distributive property to ordering a combo meal at a fast-food restaurant. Then they will apply this property to simplify algebraic expressions and explain their steps. Read more »
Created by: Brittany VanCleave
Date Updated: October 16th, 2024
Distributive Property
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)
In this lesson, students will work together to determine the definition of desertification and create a chart to explain the causes and effects of desertification in the sub-Saharan Sahel region. Then, students will learn how Africa is responding to desertification with a project called the Great Green... Read more »
Created by: Sarah Brewer
Date Updated: July 8th, 2024
Desertification of the Sahel
This lesson focuses on teaching students how to solve algebraic equations using student-friendly language. Students will begin by trying to solve viral math posts in groups. Next, they will learn the "Do/Undo" method for solving equations. Finally, students will create their own viral math posts and... Read more »
Created by: Mariah Warren
Date Updated: October 15th, 2024
Solving Equations