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 »
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 »
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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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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Workshop offered to all 10th to 12th-grade students interested in understanding the ACT and increasing their composite scores. Students engage in specific content through instructional strategies for seven two-hour ACT prep sessions. These research-based instructional strategy examples are designed... Read more »
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Workshop offered to all 10th to 12th-grade students interested in understanding the ACT and increasing their composite scores. Students engage in specific content through instructional strategies for seven two-hour ACT prep sessions. These research-based instructional strategy examples are designed... Read more »
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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 »
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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 »
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This activity provides an opportunity for students to critically think about financial aid as a resource to help take away some of the financial burden from attending college. Students will work together with a teacher or facilitator to fill out the FAFSA (or OTAG for undocumented students). They will... Read more »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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During this session, participants will discover how the use of technology can assist students and their families in preparing for a post secondary 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 »
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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 Flipgrid technology to understand how students can communicate their learning in a new and... Read more »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
Floodplains and Watershed Management
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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 »
Reading & Writing Poetry
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Banned Books, Censorship Part 2
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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 »
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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 »
Writing to Engage and Entertain
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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 »
Style, Format, and Genre
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Government: Six Principles of the Constitution
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Students will need prior knowledge of the six principles of the Constitution for this lesson to be successful. During this lesson, students will deepen their understanding of the six principles of the Constitution. The lesson begins with a video, then uses a Gallery Walk and discussion. Lastly, students... Read more »
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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 »
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Inferences in the Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass Excerpt
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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 »
Inferences in the Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass Excerpt
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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 »
Introduction to Argument
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Students will practice experimental design by identifying key elements of an experiment such as a hypothesis, the variables, and a conclusion based on experimental scenarios. They will also design an experiment (through guided inquiry) centered around termite pheromones, then create and share their... Read more »
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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 »
Intro to Dimensional Analysis
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Students explore projectile motion using Newton's first law of motion. Read more »
Newton's First Law of Motion
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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 »
Mendelian Genetics
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In this lesson, students will connect to the essential question, "What do the effects of life events look like?" through the skill of summarizing. To answer that question, students will summarize a slam poem, a short story, and a recent Presidential speech. To make a personal connection to the skill... Read more »
Summarizing
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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 »
Themes in Literature
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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 »
American Federal Government
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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 »
Part 1: Deconstructing Arguments
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In this lesson, students will analyze the differences between Native American and European cultures of the past, using the instructional strategies of Card Sorts, 4.2.,1 and a Gallery Walk, and by creating posters. Students will analyze various primary sources, including federal legislation and the... Read more »
The Dawes Act and native culture
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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 »
Location and Place
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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 »
Evolution: Embryonic Development
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This lesson analyzes the impact of minor political parties on national elections. Read more »
U.S Government
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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 »
Classifying Chemical Reactions
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Students will identify common lab mistakes via simulated lab stations. Read more »
Lab Safety
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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 »
Creative Writing
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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 »
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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 »
Communication: Using Descriptive Language
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This lesson gives students a sneak peek inside how a sports statistician interprets team and player statistics. Students will analyze basketball player data from the OKC Thunder's 2021–22 season related to measures of central tendency. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to calculate measures... Read more »
Measures of Central Tendency
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Students will research, present, and analyze the pros and cons of various forms of alternative energy. Read more »
Science Literacy
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Using Drawing to Understand an Author's Style
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In this lesson, students use drawing to help them understand key events and analyze the mood and style of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." Read more »
Using Drawing to Understand an Author's Style
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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 »
Picture the Theme
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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 »
Parallel Lines Cut by a Transversal
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In this lesson, students make connections between the type of questions one asks about a text and the understanding of that text. Though lower-order questions play a major role in comprehending a text, as students become more comfortable with higher-order questioning, they will use the information they... Read more »
Creating Meaningful Questions
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Experimental Design & Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning
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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 »
Experimental Design & Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning
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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 »
Graphing Sine and Cosine
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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 »
Cultural Characteristics
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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 »
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This lesson focuses on the importance of understanding how to use the distributive property to correctly solve expressions. Students will use different foods that make up a meal to demonstrate use of the distributive property and in conjunction with order of operations, simplify expressions. Next, students... Read more »
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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 »
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Using pictures related to pop culture as mentor texts, students will identify the archetypal figures represented. They will then be broken into small groups where they will choose a figure not previously identified to represent the archetype assigned to them and be asked to justify this choice to the... Read more »
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Students will be able to explain the fundamental concepts involved in electrostatics, such as charge, friction, conservation of charge, laws of attraction, and Coulomb’s Law. Read more »
Electrostatics
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Students will be given a fantasy fiction scenario in which they must resettle a country or region of the world that is safe from zombies. Students will determine what parts of the previous culture of the region they wish to preserve and continue, and which parts they will change and adapt. Students... Read more »
Understanding Culture
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Throughout this activity and lesson, the teacher will help facilitate and guide student connections between prior knowledge of mathematical concepts and new knowledge. This lesson will activate student prior knowledge and elicit students to begin creating their own questions about box and whisker plots. Read more »
Box and Whiskers Plots
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During this lesson, students will use their prior knowledge of multiplication and the distributive property to solve a 2-digit by 2-digit multiplication problem. Read more »
MULTIPLICATION Strategies
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Interdependence of Science, Engineering, and Technology on Society and the Natural World
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In this lesson on the interdependence of science, engineering, and technology, students will use the example of snake venom to explore how natural resources can be used to make synthetic products that humans rely on. Students will learn and practice research strategies and evaluate sources. Finally,... Read more »
Interdependence of Science, Engineering, and Technology on Society and the Natural World
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Students will examine various forms of earthquake data, ranging from intensity, magnitude, and first-person accounts, to explore which factors contribute to earthquake damage and how geologists use this information to pinpoint the epicenter and focus of an earthquake. Students will look at USGS data... Read more »
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Students will explore the connections between what they know about linear relationships and extend that understanding to arithmetic sequences. Read more »
Functions: Arithmetic Sequences
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Relationship Between the Unit Circle and the Sine Curve
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Students will explore the rotation of a Ferris wheel and make conjectures about the function represented by the motion. Students will find and plot points in the motion and use technology to find the line of best fit. Students will also manipulate the equation for their function to discover what the... Read more »
Relationship Between the Unit Circle and the Sine Curve
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Students will explore the properties of a cube and make connections to exponents through a short exploration of volume. Students will also construction and defend a mathematical argument. Read more »
Geometry, Volume, & Exponents
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Students will use DNA processes such as replication, transcription, and translation to study the differences between healthy individuals and those with a genetic disorder (in this case, cystic fibrosis). Students will apply this knowledge to the inheritance of traits through the use of Punnett squares. Read more »
DNA Processes
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In this introductory unit on using map scales, students will use a map scale to determine the distance between two points on a map. Read more »
Fractions Using a Map Scale
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Most everyone thinks the world revolves around them; however, everyone struggles with problems, and each person’s perspective colors his or her view of events. In this lesson, students will evaluate authors' perspectives (background, bias, passions, regrets, etc.) and use of figurative language in... Read more »
Perspective in Multi-Genre Literature
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Chicken trucks are known to transport thousands of live chickens. Students will use mathematical reasoning to calculate the number of chickens in a truck of known dimensions, given a photograph, which was taken while travelling I-40 in Oklahoma. Students will extend their understanding by writing a... Read more »
Writing Algebraic Expressions
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In this lesson, students will move through a series of primary source documents, maps, and graphs to explore the underlying causes of World War I. After analyzing the documents, students will use a graphic organizer to connect new information to historical concepts: militarism, alliances, imperialism,... Read more »
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In this lesson about the growth and development of organisms, students will gather evidence from research about specific plant phenomena, then use research and in-class investigations to explain the relationship between environmental conditions and plant growth. Activities throughout the lesson will... Read more »
Growth and Development of Organisms
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In this lesson on the importance of clean water as a natural resource, students will begin by observing a polluted water source within a United States community. Next, students will explore the significance of the Ganges River and the political and religious issues that impact the ongoing struggle to... Read more »
Ganges River Pollution
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In this lesson, students will learn to determine which materials are best used in various situations based on their properties. After categorizing a few common materials like cotton balls and cooking oil, students contribute their rationales to an Anchor Chart, which is then expanded to include the... Read more »
Structure And Properties of Matter
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This lesson is the first in a series of lessons, Wave Inventions, related to light and sound waves and inventors. In this lesson, using household objects, students will plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials produce sound. The lesson will culminate with students... Read more »
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This lesson uses fiction and nonfiction books to have students think about the author’s purpose for writing the piece. The goal is to help students understand that nonfiction works have common elements with the purpose to inform, while fiction stories have common elements with the purpose to entertain.... Read more »
Author's Purpose: Informing or Entertaining
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This lesson compares the various roles that colonists played in the Southern Colonies. Students will begin by examining the economy of the Southern Colonies. They will then compare various roles within the Southern Colonies and will write a RAFT strategy prompt to share what they learned about the colonists. Read more »
Colonial History
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In this lesson, students discover what tax dollars are used for and evaluate which tax-funded community services they feel are important. These services include libraries, police and fire departments, roads, water/sanitation services, and schools. Read more »
Taxes and the Community Services They Provide
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History courses are filled with people who have "made" history. In this lesson, students will analyze historical figures and make connections about their places in history. Students will research an Oklahoma historical figure of their choice and examine their impact during their historical period, as... Read more »
Analyzing History
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Is love really like a red, red rose? Or is that just a way to describe how someone feels about love? This lesson explores different types of figurative language used by Shakespeare in "Romeo and Juliet." Students will play a short game to identify types of figurative language, develop their own definitions... Read more »
Figurative Language in Romeo and Juliet
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This lesson is best taught after students have already explored how speed, velocity, and mass determine momentum in terms of Newton’s 1st and 2nd laws. Here, students will take those principles and determine Newton’s 3rd law, including what occurs when two objects act upon one another. Students will... Read more »
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Observations and Inferences
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In this lesson, students play the role of a nosy detective, digging through a mysterious neighbor's garbage to make observations and inferences in order to solve a case. Using images and "artifacts," students create a character profile to show how their observations and inferences help them come to... Read more »
Observations and Inferences
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In this lesson, students learn to compare and contrast geographical features found among different regions in the United States. Students will then apply these skills by comparing their home state's features with those of another state in the nation. Read more »
Students will investigate the similarity of reproduction, embryonic development, and DNA sequences to illustrate the indirect evidence for evolution. This lesson is adapted for a middle school class. Read more »
Evolution: Embryonic Development
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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 »
Digestion and the Fossil Record
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Nutrients, Genetics, and Plant Growth
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In this lesson, students use differences in water clarity among four Oklahoma lakes as a phenomenon. They investigate how local environmental conditions and the survival strategies and growth of phytoplankton (algae) affect water clarity. After designing and conducting experiments that relate water... Read more »
Nutrients, Genetics, and Plant Growth
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Students will develop a greater understanding of local environmental conditions that affects bodies of water. Students will recognize the various breeds and sizes of algae noticing their unique characteristics. Read more »
Influence of Environment and Genetics on Algal Blooms
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This lesson asks students to analyze the motivations of Montresor in Edgar Allen Poe's short story "The Cask of Amontillado" and engages students by placing them in the role of a forensic psychologist. In this role, having students will answer questions in a clinical evaluation. Students will analyze... Read more »
Irony and Characterization in "The Cask of Amontillado"
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Do words matter? Does our choice of words affect the attitudes of others? In this lesson, students will explore the denotation and connotation of different words from Romeo and Juliet and how word choice affects understanding and perception of an author’s writing. This is a multimodality lesson, which... Read more »
Connotation and Denotation in Romeo and Juliet
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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 Rachel Carson, the impact of human activity on our ecosystem, and how organisms develop resistance... Read more »
Biological Unity and Diversity
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Students will investigate financial lending sources and compare their services. Students will identify similarities and differences among the different sources through a mind-mapping strategy and evaluate which financial source offers the best opportunities for lending. Read more »
Standard 3: Banking and Financial Services
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This lesson focuses on an extension of parallel lines by exploring what happens when a transversal line passes through them. The goal is for students to understand the different angles that form due to the intersection and to apply that knowledge to real-world situations. Students will be able to identify... Read more »
Parallel Lines, Transversal Lines, and Angles
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In this lesson, students will use proportions and percentages to discover what classrooms around the world are like. Read more »
Proportions and Percents
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Do words matter? Does our choice of words affect the attitudes of others? In this lesson, students will explore the denotation and connotation of different words and how word choice affects understanding and perception of an author’s writing. This lesson is multi-modal, which means it's intended to... Read more »
Connotation and Denotation
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Electromagnetic Radiation, Astronomy, and the Inverse Square Law
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Students will establish the relationship between radiation intensity and the distance of a radiating source using a simple flashlight model. Students will learn to apply the inverse square relationship to consider the effects of a planet’s distance from the Sun on its ability to be colonized and adapt... Read more »
Electromagnetic Radiation, Astronomy, and the Inverse Square Law
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Students will explore the phenomena of light absorption by viewing spectra of sunlight reflected off of different colors of paper. They will match absorption lines created by elements to absorption lines in sun spectra to reveal elements absorbing light in the sun. They will compare the sun's spectrum... Read more »
Light Absorption and Stars
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Polygons and the Exterior Angle Sum Theorem
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Students will explore the relationships between exterior angles in regular and irregular polygons to determine the sum of exterior angles, and they will apply that knowledge to solve problems. To complete this lesson, students need to know the interior angle sum theorem. See the "Department of the Interior... Read more »
Polygons and the Exterior Angle Sum Theorem
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In this lesson, students compare and contrast the poem, "The Hill We Climb," and an excerpt from the speech, "I Have a Dream," and analyze how the authors' messages are made clear through their word choices and rhetorical strategies. Students compose a poem, evaluate how poetry can be used to send a... Read more »
Perspectives in Poetry
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Hierarchical Organization of Multicellular Organisms
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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 »
Hierarchical Organization of Multicellular Organisms
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This lesson is part of the "Woman Crush Wednesday" series that looks at the ways female scientists have shaped our views of science. In this biology lesson, students will explore the many contributions of Jane Cooke Wright, with special attention on her study of the impact of uncontrolled cell division... Read more »
Understanding Mitosis
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What does it mean to have a plan for a postsecondary college or career? This lesson encourages students to explore their career choices and develop a plan to achieve their career goals. Read more »
College and Career Readiness
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In this lesson, students will explore different research methods used by sociologists. Students will work in groups to analyze different readings and summarize what they have read. To extend their learning, students will create visual representations of the different research methods to display across... Read more »
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Understanding the contributions of sociological theorists can provide insight into the field of sociology. This lesson explores the contributions of eight key figures and enables students to dive deep into research to learn more. This lesson should be taught after students have a working knowledge of... Read more »
The Foundations of Sociology
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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 »
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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 »
The Civil Rights Movement and The Black Panther Party
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In this lesson, students will learn about the four points of natural selection and how they drive the evolutionary patterns of a species. Students will determine how to answer evolutionary questions through interpreting graphs and making connections among natural selection concepts. Students also will... Read more »
Natural Selection
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Contributions of Influential Oklahomans
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What motivated and inspired legendary folk musician Woody Guthrie to create and perform music? Students explore this question throughout the lesson by engaging in a Gallery Walk analysis of Guthrie photos and quotes and then using his lyrics to determine the political and social issues that Guthrie... Read more »
Contributions of Influential Oklahomans
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This lesson asks students to apply their previous knowledge of solving systems of equations to real-life contexts, including basketball games. Read more »
Systems of Equations
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Environmental Factors
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During this second lesson in the Connecting Social Issues and Health Inequities unit, students will analyze Oklahoma City's air quality and pollutant levels from 2020 and summarize important information about air pollutants in a public service announcement. Read more »
Environmental Factors
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In this lesson, students will learn about the different stages in which a rock can exist due to natural causes or human impact. Students will construct models that illustrate how biochemical processes cycle through living and nonliving organisms. Read more »
Earth's Systems
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In this lesson, students will evaluate and argue the benefits and drawbacks of the use of different types of radiations for technological advances. By the end of this lesson, students will be able to evaluate published works' validity on technology associated with human health. This is a multimodality... Read more »
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This lesson focuses on the application of systems of equations. Using prior knowledge of substitution and elimination from the "Two Worlds Collide, Part 2" lesson, students will apply systems of equations to solve for the prices of individual items in different fast food combos. This is the final lesson... Read more »
Systems of Linear Equations: Applications
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It is recommended that this lesson be taught after students learn the basics of genetics concerning alleles, dominant versus recessive genes, basic Punnett squares, and protein synthesis. In this lesson, students apply what they have learned about genetics to a real-world scenario, centering on codominance... Read more »
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In this lesson, students will explore the meaning of the word "parallel" and analyze how and for what purposes parallel structure is used in speeches. At the end of the lesson, students will compose a tweet to summarize the purpose of parallel structure in writing. This lesson includes optional modifications... Read more »
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The ability to sequence events in a text is a key comprehension strategy, especially for narrative texts. This lesson will allow students to construct a story by placing events into sequential order, analyze clue words that writers use for sequencing, and create a sequential timeline of the story "Ada... Read more »
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Investigating Interconnectedness in Ocean Ecosystems
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In this lesson, students will explore how communities of living things are connected within an ocean ecosystem. They will create an ocean food web and learn how even small changes can impact an entire ecosystem. Read more »
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Gifted and Talented Lesson: Art and Literacy
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Students will engage in a lesson that explores how competition and collaboration can influence our perspective or understanding of the world around us. The lesson focuses on literacy skills that range from kindergarten to 5th grade. The activities are infused with text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world... Read more »
Gifted and Talented Lesson: Art and Literacy
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In this lesson, students will be introduced to analogies by exploring how given words are related to one another. Students will work as a class to create a definition of an analogy, finish given analogies, create new analogies, and be able to explain why an analogy may not make sense. Finally, students... Read more »
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Students will track how inflation has altered the cost of living from 1920 until today by examining vintage advertisements for various goods. Students will also learn how inflation continues to have an effect on the U.S. economy by watching a couple of videos and designing anchor charts. Read more »
Inflation and Cost of Living
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In this culminating lesson of the "Lord of the Flies" unit, students revisit the Microcosms they designed in Lesson 1 and re-evaluate their emergency items, as they think critically about what William Golding intended to say in the story and how the story influenced them as a whole. Read more »
In the End
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Participating in difficult conversations in a classroom setting gives students a chance to learn how to express ideas and opinions safely. In this lesson, students build trust and respect for each other, building their confidence to speak on difficult topics without fear. Students will engage with complex... Read more »
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In this lesson, students examine the nature and function of international trade agreements in the world economy. Through engaging in an interactive story, students learn many important concepts regarding world trade. In addition, students explore both the benefits and drawbacks of trade agreements through... Read more »
International Trade Agreements
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In this lesson, students make connections between severe weather events and human behavior. Students will play through AWARE: Advanced Weather Awareness & Response Education, a digital game-based learning (DGBL) module; explore population growth data; and research the economic sectors and natural resources... Read more »
The Influence of Natural Hazards on Human Activity
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In this lesson, students will explore different research methods used by sociologists. Students will work in groups to analyze different readings and summarize what they have read. To extend their learning, students will create visual representations of the different research methods to display across... Read more »
The Foundations of Sociology
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This lesson is meant to be taught after WWI content and introduces your students to WWII. Students will learn how economic and political issues after WWI lit a fuse that exploded into WWII. Using hands-on activities and discussions, students will explore the vocabulary and multiple causes of WWII. Following... Read more »
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During this second lesson in the Connecting Social Issues and Health Inequities unit, students analyze Oklahoma City's Air Quality and pollutant levels from 2020 and summarize important information about air pollutants in a public service announcement. Read more »
Environmental Factors
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What does it mean to have a plan for a post-secondary college or career? This lesson encourages students to explore their career choices and develop a plan to achieve their career goal. Read more »
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What does it mean to have a plan for a post-secondary college or career? This lesson encourages students to explore their career choices and develop a plan to achieve their career goal. Read more »
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Students explore visual artifacts and do research to ascertain what life at Jamestown was like. They research tobacco to discover how it helped make Jamestown successful. Read more »
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In this lesson, students will discover how to evaluate logarithms and use that knowledge to write equations in logarithmic and exponential forms. Students will learn how to solve exponential equations with and without using logarithms and then apply their knowledge to solve real-world problems involving... Read more »
Solving Exponential Equations
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This lesson takes learners through a process using their five senses to describe various candies. Learners will record their findings using descriptive words and then pose positive or negative opinions about the candies. Following this activity, they will write the first draft of a persuasive paragraph... Read more »
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Like building blocks, tangrams and pattern blocks can teach kids about spatial relationships and help them develop problem-solving skills. Students will explore many ways to compose and decompose shapes using pattern blocks and tangrams in this lesson. Students will also acquire an understanding and... Read more »
Shape Composition and Decomposition
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Students will be able to recognize parts of a physical map and create 3D physical maps of their neighborhoods. Read more »
Creating and Using a Physical Map
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In this lesson about literary devices, students first assess their prior knowledge of common literary devices. Students create acrostic poems of literary device terms and Gallery Walk the created acrostic poems. Students summarize their knowledge by evaluating how comfortable they are with each literary... Read more »
Examining Literary Devices
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This lesson uses Lawrence Kohlberg's Heinz Dilemma to teach students how to create an effective argument using evidence and logical reasoning. Content is introduced with an anticipation guide and class discussion. Students then read and respond to the Heinz Dilemma and analyze four claims, then create... Read more »
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Students will learn that light is formed by waves and can change direction through diffraction. They will use pencils to build a spectroscope and make observations as to the color and size of light. Students will research wave diffraction and use what they learned to build and test a spectroscope. Read more »
What Is Diffraction?
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Geographical Landforms and Waterforms
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This lesson is about physical geography in the United States and focuses on major landforms and their features. Students will start by reviewing what they already know about landforms with a fun game called Kahoot. They will then create a model of a new landform assigned to them by the instructor using... Read more »
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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 »
The Doppler Effect
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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 »
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In this lesson about literary devices, students first assess their prior knowledge of common literary devices. Students create acrostic poems of literary device terms and Gallery Walk the created acrostic poems. Students summarize their knowledge by evaluating how comfortable they are with each literary... Read more »
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After watching an ICAP video with a tattoo artist, students explore the history of tattooing and weigh in on the debate: “Are tattoos art?” Following this, students learn about the history of temporary tattoos, and they design their own temporary tattoos and print them. Finally, students do a Gallery... Read more »
Designing Temporary Tattoos
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Werewolves Who Write
“And they called it puppy love…” This lesson will have students falling in love with werewolves from all packs as they explore how mythology and lore has progressed over time, place, and culture. After they discover which pack they belong to, they will work together to design a movie poster that depicts... Read more »
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Diamonds, Not Just a Girl's Best Friend
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Students will watch an ICAP video of Plains tribe member Crystal Pewo Lightfoot who makes star quilts and start quilt based designs. They will learn the history of the quilts and the Plains tribes, examine quilts using modern principles of design, and make a design of their own. Students will share... Read more »
Diamonds, Not Just a Girl's Best Friend
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Temperature Effects and Phenological Mismatch
Changes in the Earth Over Time: What’s the Evidence?
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During this lesson, students are introduced to the significance of fossils in understanding past living organisms, gathering evidence about prehistoric life, and providing valuable insights into the Earth's historical environment and its transformations over time. As students progress through Discovery... Read more »
Changes in the Earth Over Time: What’s the Evidence?
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In this lesson, students observe the movement of heat energy by measuring the rise in water temperature after placing hot metal washers in the water. Students also calculate the amount of heat energy transferred between the washers and water. Lastly, students cite specific evidence to refute or agree... Read more »
Flow of Heat Energy
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Examining Intrinsic & Extrinsic Motivation Through Character Analysis in Macbeth
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In this lesson, students explore what intrinsic and extrinsic motivations are and the characters' motivations in William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Students create visual and written representations of their assigned character's motivations. Students end the lesson by writing a scholarly essay about the... Read more »
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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 »
Draft a Business Plan Using Shark Tank
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This is part 1 of a 3 part lesson. In this lesson, students learn the role of the balanced chemical equation in establishing the stoichiometric relationship between different substances involved in a chemical reaction. This lesson encourages students to reflect on how the coefficients in the balanced... Read more »
Stoichiometry_ Mole to Mole Ratio
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Students will activate and build their background knowledge so that they are better able to comprehend Beowulf and draw connections to crucial parts of the story. This lesson is intended to be taught just before students read Beowulf. Read more »
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This lesson invites students to analyze historical figures in the field of psychology and to make connections regarding their impact in their field of study. Students will research a historical figure and examine that person's impact during the period in which they lived, as well as their long lasting... Read more »
Analyzing Historical Figures
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This activity helps solidify knowledge and practice map skills by studying European Explorers. Students make posters about European explorers after seeing an example about Christopher Columbus. Then, students act out the route that the explorers took on a large map of the world on the playground. Finally,... Read more »
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In this lesson, students discover how the human mind develops the ability to perform cognitive functions and engage in moral reasoning. First, students establish what they already know about how people learn. Next, students gain a basic understanding of cognitive and moral development by reading two... Read more »
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In this lesson, students first consider what they already know about the stages of human development. Next, they work in groups to create a poster about one of Erik Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development. As a class, they review the posters and take notes over each of the stages. Students then... Read more »
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Día de los Muertos and Other Occasions Honoring the Dead
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In this lesson, students will be examining the practices associated with rituals and festivals that honor the dead around the world. They will design anchor charts and participate in a Detective Board activity in order to identify similarities between the various rituals. As they read a handout and... Read more »
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In this lesson students will learn the differences between a natural birth and a c-section. Students will first reflect on statements about the two types of birth and what they already believe. Then students will use the Honeycomb Harvest instructional strategy to explore natural birth and record guided... Read more »
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In this lesson students will begin with an analysis of the popular image, “The Ultimate Confrontation,” and move into an exploration of lyrics that are found in popular protest music of the time. Students will learn about a variety of foreign and domestic events. As they learn about the artists’ backgrounds... Read more »
Exploring the influence of protest music on social change
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Students explore projectile motion using Newton's first law of motion. Read more »
Newton's First Law of Motion
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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 »
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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 »
Through small-group activities, research, and discussion, students will be exposed to a variety of careers, along with their average salaries, educational institutions, and postsecondary requirements. Students will learn about a variety of jobs in eight career clusters and the educational institutions'... Read more »
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In this lesson, students learn the history, culture, and importance of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Students begin by becoming familiar with some of the many famous and successful people who attended HBCUs. Then, after reading a short article about the history of HBCUs, they perform... Read more »
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Students learn about their motivations by playing Would You Rather, completing a motivation inventory, and sorting extrinsic and intrinsic motivators. They apply their knowledge to create a vision board for completing a task. Read more »
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In this lesson, students will learn about the rise of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) and the important role they play in postsecondary education. Students will begin by familiarizing themselves with some of the famous and successful people who have attended an HSI. After reading a short article... Read more »
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In this lesson, students learn about the history of assimilation in the education system and how it led to the rise of Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs). Students begin by becoming familiar with some of the many famous and successful people who attended TCUs. Then, after reading a short article... Read more »
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In this lesson, students will learn about the rise of Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions (AANAPISi) and the important role they play in postsecondary education. Students will begin by becoming familiar with some of the many famous and successful people who attended... Read more »
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In this session, students will learn the importance of the FAFSA and important information about filling out the FAFSA. Students will brainstorm ways to pay for college. Read more »
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