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 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: January 25th, 2024
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
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: March 11th, 2024
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: April 11th, 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
This resource provides an overview of the TI-Nspire calculator. Participants engage in hands-on exploration of the TI-Nspire, learn basic operations, and discover pre-made classroom activities for the calculator. Participants also learn about teacher-student connectivity options and how the additional... Read more »
Created by: Lydia Baker
Date Updated: June 15th, 2023
This resource provides an overview of the TI-84 Plus. Participants engage in hands-on exploration of the TI-84 Plus, learn basic operations, and discover pre-made classroom activities for the calculator. Participants also learn about teacher-student connectivity options and how the additional technology... Read more »
Created by: Lydia Baker
Date Updated: May 25th, 2023
In this professional development, participants explore elements of student engagement and examples of positive classroom culture. Next, they participate in a variety of engaging instructional strategies as learners and gain experience modifying and/or scaffolding these strategies to support their own... Read more »
Created by: Heather Shaffery
Date Updated: August 13th, 2024
This lesson is to be used after students have reached the point in an application process that calls for a letter of recommendation. However, it can also be used to generate a generic recommendation letter that can later be revised for a specific purpose. Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: October 2nd, 2023
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 21st, 2024
This workshop prepares student for the ACT test by utilizing several K20 Instructional Strategies. The workshop is designed to be an after-school program lasting for seven weeks and including one 2-hour session each week. Sessions will be broken up into reading/ELA and science/math. This resource provides... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: April 10th, 2025
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: June 26th, 2024
Would you like to provide students the opportunity to get to know their TI-Nspire prior to its actual use? This resource provides an overview so students feel comfortable and confident with the device from the start. With this resource, students engage in hands-on exploration of the TI-Nspire and learn... Read more »
Created by: Lydia Baker
Date Updated: June 20th, 2023
Would you like to provide students the opportunity to get to know their TI-84 Plus prior to its actual use? This resource provides an overview so students feel comfortable and confident with the device from the start. With this resource, students engage in hands-on exploration of the TI-84 Plus and... Read more »
Created by: Lydia Baker
Date Updated: June 20th, 2023
In this activity, students will focus on how and when to use their calculator. Students will be given several algebraic problems to solve and will reflect on how to use their calculator to efficiently answer ACT-style math questions. This is the second activity in a 10-week "Power Up" series for ACT... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: May 1st, 2025
In this reading ACT prep activity, students view a short video about ACT reading tips and reflect on what they have learned about the ACT reading section so far. Students then review cause and effect relationships by reading a passage about the Cold War and then answer nine ACT-style questions. This... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: April 29th, 2025
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: September 27th, 2024
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
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: January 23rd, 2025
Creative Writing
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
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: July 5th, 2024
Coordinate Plane Graphing
In this lesson, students consider why people choose to move and settle where they do. They explore specific, real-world examples of rapid urbanization in India to identify motivations for movement by analyzing the influence of push and pull factors. To extend their learning, students complete a short... Read more »
Created by: Clayton Canon
Date Updated: April 21st, 2025
Push/Pull Factors
This lesson, based on W.W. Jacob's short story "The Monkey's Paw," is designed to help students understand foreshadowing. Students identify passages in the text that foreshadow the end of the story and predict how they think the story will end. After reading the full story, students compare their predictions... Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: October 2nd, 2024
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: July 23rd, 2024
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: September 26th, 2024
Earthquakes
Students examine primary and secondary source documents and photos surrounding the Manhattan Project. Using a close reading strategy, they will highlight and summarize important information found in the documents in their own words. Students will also analyze photos from the Manhattan Project. Students... Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: May 22nd, 2023
World War II Era
Students will examine the results of the Holocaust and evaluate the defense of Nazi leaders at the Nuremberg Trials. Students will create a mini-documentary from guided research about the Holocaust and the subsequent trials as if they are reporting back to the American audience in 1946. Students will... Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: June 22nd, 2023
The Holocaust
Shark dissections are a classic zoology lab. This lesson is best not only after students have had some gross anatomy but also when you trust students enough to have them use scalpels in the classroom. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 28th, 2023
Shark Dissection
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: July 6th, 2023
Writing Algebraic Expressions
There's more than enough information at our students' fingertips, but how do they determine if that information is credible? In order to determine the credibility of a source, students first examine the credibility of individuals and then investigate their own authority and expertise on a particular... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 10th, 2023
Evaluating Sources
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 work with rules of grammar to learn how to integrate more structure and variety in verse to (not quite) break the rules of poetry. Using Shel Silverstein's poetry, students will analyze pieces for elements... Read more »
Created by: Jane Baber
Date Updated: November 11th, 2024
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
Once students have foundational knowledge of rhetorical analysis and persuasion, this lesson allows students to evaluate the use of rhetorical elements in modern product commercials and political campaign ads. This lesson can be used to make connections to rhetorical devices used in American or British... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: February 21st, 2024
Rhetorical Analysis of Media and Text
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 that focuses on how remembering history impacts the present. Students will... Read more »
Created by: Polly Base
Date Updated: November 8th, 2024
Guided Inquiry Research
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 »
Created by: Delia Gietzen
Date Updated: September 12th, 2024
Beginning just before students read "Tulsa Burning" by Anna Myers, this companion lesson provides a contextual understanding of people, places, and power in the Tulsa Race Massacre. In the first of the series of lessons, students will be introduced to the concept of a flash point in science and compare... Read more »
Created by: Nicole Watkins
Date Updated: February 21st, 2024
Tulsa Race Massacre
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: December 2nd, 2024
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: October 22nd, 2024
The Lottery
This lesson focuses on engaging students to understand how their academic coursework connects to and affects their futures. Students reflect on their current level of academic performance, learn about the PreACT, take the PreACT, play the game Get a Life!, review and understand their PreACT scores,... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: August 19th, 2024
Connecting Coursework to Future Goals in College and Career
In this visual arts lesson, students will analyze three pieces of art that were created collaboratively and then work in a small group to create a piece of art that is collaborative. Students will then gallery walk the created art pieces, leave feedback on each piece, and reflect on the process of creating... Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
Date Updated: July 15th, 2024
Collaboration in the Visual Arts
In this lesson, students will explore angles of incline on different wheelchair ramps by measuring side lengths and finding missing angle measures using inverse trigonometric functions. Students will compare their results with the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) accessibility standards to determine... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: May 25th, 2023
Inverse Trigonometry: ADA Accessibility
Texas v. Johnson
In this lesson, students first analyze a quote about free speech before discussing whether the right to free speech is important. Next, students summarize the Texas v. Johnson Supreme Court case before debating whether a constitutional amendment banning flag burning is necessary. Students reflect on... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: December 8th, 2023
Texas v. Johnson
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 »
Created by: Tanner Lusher
Date Updated: March 6th, 2025
Human Development
In this lesson, students will read “They’re Made Out of Meat” by Terry Bisson and analyze its dialogue structure. They will focus on the significance of punctuation marks such as quotation marks, commas, and ellipses in conveying tone and meaning within a conversation. Through guided analysis and group... Read more »
Created by: DeLayna Basham
Date Updated: January 31st, 2025
In this lesson, students compare methods to evaluate numerical expressions with and without the use of a non-scientific calculator. Students begin by discussing the pros and cons of modern technology. They then explore the limitations of a non-scientific calculator when using one to evaluate numerical... Read more »
Created by: Corrie Matchell
Date Updated: April 28th, 2025
Order of Operations
