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: November 11th, 2021
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: September 10th, 2020
This campus visit lesson focuses on identifying and mitigating obstacles to postsecondary education. Student participants will have an opportunity to discuss why they should want to go to college and what could potentially prevent them from going. They will then explore some of the critical careers... Read more »
Created by: Lacy Pennington
Date Updated: May 19th, 2021
The Parent Leadership Academy designs and engages a school team consisting of parents, community members, and school leaders to forge the commitment and involvement of parent-school-community partnerships. This event will lead and educate the parent leadership teams through a data driven decision-making... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: September 14th, 2020
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: February 21st, 2022
In this session, participants will gain a deeper understanding of meaningful bell ringers through the modeling of interdisciplinary instructional strategies. Participants are asked to a) address superficial uses of bell ringers and more meaningful uses of bell ringers, b) actively engage in authentic... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 11th, 2021
Do you like to disrupt the status quo? Do you want new ways to assess students by using their favorite form of literacy: speaking and listening? Dive into the use of Flipgrid as an alternative formative assessment tool. The #Flipgridfever for Formative Assessments PD session focuses on using Flipgrid... Read more »
Created by: Teresa Randall
Date Updated: February 2nd, 2022
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 »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: July 27th, 2021
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 »
Participants will gain a deeper understanding of meaningful bell ringers through the modeling of interdisciplinary instructional strategies. Participants are asked to a) address superficial uses of bell ringers and more meaningful uses of bell ringers b) actively engage in authentic instructional strategies... Read more »
In this professional learning session, participants will engage in collaborative writing activities, discover how writing can increase student engagement, and leave with strategies and resources that can be implemented immediately in their classrooms. Read more »
Created by: Shelby Blackwood
Date Updated: October 17th, 2022
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 »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: May 31st, 2022
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: September 14th, 2020
This campus visit lesson focuses on identifying and mitigating obstacles to postsecondary education. Student participants will have an opportunity to discuss why they should want to go to college and what could potentially prevent them from going. They will then explore some of the critical careers... Read more »
Created by: Lacy Pennington
Date Updated: August 3rd, 2021
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
Students explore the benefits of working in a group with diverse viewpoints and reflect on their own work preferences and how they shape the ways they contribute to group work. Read more »
Created by: Shayna Pond
Date Updated: September 30th, 2022
In this lesson, students will design characters from shapes. Read more »
Students will explore soil chemistry, vegetable growth needs, environmental impact, and soil health through project based learning by creating a school garden proposal. Acknowledgement: Funding provided by USDA to Project No. 2012-02355 through the National Institute for Food and Agriculture's Agriculture... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 9th, 2022
Chemistry & Soil Health
Students will create a list of personal “wants” they would like to achieve or obtain by 25 years of age. They will consider how realistic these wants are as they move through this lesson. Students then will look at household income charts in small groups and draw conclusions about how Americans primarily... Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: January 24th, 2023
Standard 1: Managing an Income
Students will use their knowledge of graphing, linear, and quadratic functions to interpret a tortoise - hare scenario. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 16th, 2022
Algebra 2: Functions
Modern presidents are expected to wear different hats; i.e., play different roles in their jobs. This lesson explores the roles and examples of how presidents carry out the responsibilities of their jobs. Read more »
Created by: Kristen Sublett
Date Updated: November 10th, 2022
Different Roles of Modern Presidents
Students will identify and explain common mistakes in graphing on an x,y axis and create visual methods of remembering how to graph without making the three most common graphing mistakes. This is intended not as an introduction of graphing, but a review/helpful way of clearing up misconceptions. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 17th, 2020
coordinate plane graphing
This lesson is based on the text of W.W. Jacob's "The Monkey's Paw" and is designed to help students understand the literary device of foreshadowing. Students identify passages of the author's text that predict the end of the story. They compare their prediction with the author's ending. Students... Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: May 6th, 2022
Foreshadowing
Students will analyze two primary sources, Patrick Henry's speech to the Virginia House of Burgesses and Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" pamphlet to understand the colonial resistance to British rule and how these primary sources influenced the American Revolution. Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: November 16th, 2022
The Journey to Revolution
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 »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: May 25th, 2022
Earthquakes
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 »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 24th, 2022
Writing Algebraic Expressions
This lesson focuses on multi-modal literacy as a follow-up to lessons over the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Students should already have a basic understanding of the Bill of Rights. The lesson introduces students to protest art as seen in the work of Juane Quick-to-see Smith, an internationally... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: February 27th, 2023
U.S. Government
It has been said that poetry is a place to break all the rules. In this lesson, students will not quite be rule-breakers; instead, they will work with rules of grammar to learn how to integrate more structure and variety in verse. Using Shel Silverstein's poetry, students will analyze pieces for elements... Read more »
Created by: Jane Baber
Date Updated: February 2nd, 2023
Poetry and Grammar
Students will use a fun problem to discover and practice the partial quotients process for multiple-digit division. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: April 22nd, 2021
Partial Quotients Division Method
This lesson begins with a discussion of how authors tell great stories. Students will hear two stories about dogs, one told from the first person and the other from the third person point of view. Students will use a Card Sort activity to discover how to tell the difference in point of view and will... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 4th, 2021
Point of View
This lesson builds on the inquiry questions that students developed in the lesson "Hall of Injustice, Part 1." Students will use their inquiry questions based on the Tulsa Race Massacre to write an informative research paper, focusing on how remembering history impacts the present. Students will explore... Read more »
Guided Inquiry Research
This lesson builds on the inquiry questions that students developed in the lesson "Hall of Injustice, Part 1." Students will use their inquiry questions based on the Tulsa Race Massacre to write an informative research paper, focusing on how remembering history impacts the present. Students will explore... Read more »
Guided Inquiry Research
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: June 2nd, 2022
Tulsa Race Massacre
In this lesson, students will use the Desmos Studio graphing calculator to explore how changing the y-intercept or slope of a line affects the graph. They will find real items to serve as examples of lines with defined slopes and use Desmos Studio to find the linear functions that represent those items.... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: June 28th, 2022
Slope-Intercept Form
In this lesson, students explore the theme of tradition by reading Shirley Jackson’s short story, “The Lottery,” and an accompanying article, “The Dangers of Tradition.” As students develop their own beliefs concerning the value and possible dangers of tradition, they share their opinions with their... Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: February 1st, 2023
The Lottery
In this lesson, students explore the theme of tradition by reading Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and an accompanying article “The Dangers of Tradition.” As students develop their own beliefs concerning the value and possible dangers of tradition, they share their opinions with their peers and petition... Read more »
The Lottery
In this lesson, students explore the theme of tradition by reading Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and an accompanying article “The Dangers of Tradition.” As students develop their own beliefs concerning the value and possible dangers of tradition, they share their opinions with their peers and petition... Read more »
The Lottery
In this lesson, students will establish a fundamental understanding of civil liberties and rights by explaining the difference between the two. Students will practice analyzing the Constitutional principles and apply them to real-life cases. In this lesson, students learn about the importance of civil... Read more »
Civil Liberties & Rights
