Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
In this session, participants will be given a menu of instructional strategies to "taste test." Each of these strategies is research-based and supports components of authenticity. Once strategies have been chosen, the session will be built around a three-course meal of participants' chosen strategies.... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: November 7th, 2023
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
This professional development focuses on defining and promoting literacy strategies across all subject areas. Participants will examine how literacy components are necessary for their subject areas, identify the specific literacy strategies appropriate for their content, and discuss ways to implement... Read more »
Created by: Keristy Nieto
Date Updated: April 25th, 2024
This activity will dive deep into encouraging inquiry and implementing inquiry-focused instructional strategies in the classroom. Participants will be actively engaged in a variety of strategies as facilitators model the implementation of these strategies. Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: March 8th, 2024
This professional development session, built on theoretical constructs SAMR and Authentic Teaching and Learning, engages participants in an overview of LEGO Mindstorms and a model activity for Mindstorms EV3. Participants can expect to be engaged in a hands-on experience where they will apply research-based... Read more »
Created by: Taylor Thurston
Date Updated: May 21st, 2024
This professional development session is the mathematics content-specific day of the Formative Assessment Institute. In this session, participants will learn what formative assessment looks like in a mathematics classroom and will create formative assessments to take back to their classrooms. Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: June 5th, 2024
Research indicates that teachers will likely bear additional duties and responsibilities outside the classroom. These added hours can potentially lead to stress and strain. This session is designed to bridge the two roles of coaching and teaching by understanding their similarities. Participants will... Read more »
Created by: Kim Press
Date Updated: June 26th, 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
Participants will learn how to plan and host "Game to Prepare for Life" events at their schools. They will experience sample booths that let them see what the event can feel like for students. Afterward, participants will reflect on the process and discuss some of the benefits and challenges of coordinating... Read more »
Created by: Mariah Warren
Date Updated: April 21st, 2023
The Leading Educators in Authentic Development (LEAD) workshop is a series of professional learning sessions to develop teachers’ skills to lead professional development at their school sites. This workshop features four sessions over a two-day period. This third session focuses on developing a foundational... Read more »
Created by: Mariah Warren
Date Updated: November 11th, 2024
Participants learn how to plan and host a Future U: The Enrollment Adventure event at their schools. They experience sample booths that let them see what the event can feel like for students. Afterwards, participants reflect on the process and discuss some of the benefits and challenges of coordinating... Read more »
Created by: Patricia McDaniels-Gomez
Date Updated: November 7th, 2024
Students will spend time exploring the Bill of Rights from the US Constitution. They will determine what each right guarantees, the reason behind the right being included in the Constitution, and examples of how the right has been protected since the amendment was written. They will demonstrate their... Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: July 25th, 2023
Bill of Rights
Banned Books, Censorship Part 2
This lesson is designed to take place following completion of another K20 lesson, "Trigger Warnings." Through collaboration, reading, and research, students will continue the study of a controversial work of literature by examining various perspectives on book banning. Students will establish their... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 10th, 2023
Banned Books, Censorship Part 2
Students will activate prior knowledge and make connections to the post-WWII era in America by looking at images from the time period. In addition, students will read poems that depict contrasting points of view from the decade (the point of view of an American versus a Holocaust survivor resettled... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 30th, 2024
Characterization
This lesson introduces the importance of argument in everyday life. Students will identify arguments in order to build an initial understanding of claims, evidence, and reasoning, and the rhetorical situation: author’s purpose, audience, and context. While this lesson is currently aligned only to 11th-grade... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 23rd, 2024
Introduction to Argument
In this lesson, students will investigate how to use systems of equations to solve real-world problems. This is a great lesson to wrap up a unit on systems of equations, after students have become familiar with solving systems using any method. This lesson will connect solving systems to real-world... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: October 2nd, 2023
Linear Systems of Equations
Students will use close reading strategies to analyze symbolism in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven." The class will begin by observing symbols being displayed on the board, transition into recognizing the main symbol in the poem, and finally create a symbolic poem of their own. Through collaborative exercises,... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: May 18th, 2023
Symbolism
In this lesson, students will explore conservation of mechanical energy and the relationship that it has with work. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: February 21st, 2024
Work and Energy
This lesson explores the use of literacy tests during elections following Reconstruction. Students must understand the First, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments prior to this activity. This lesson will allow students to investigate the purpose of literacy tests while also allowing students... Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: September 23rd, 2024
Post-Reconstruction America
In this lesson, students will engage in inquiry and literary components to help gain an understanding of and define interest groups, provide examples, and analyze how they affect the political process in the United States. Read more »
Created by: Clayton Canon
Date Updated: November 8th, 2022
American Federal Government
Annotating a text allows students to process information about an author’s purpose and point of view. In this lesson, students will learn techniques for analyzing a text to create an argumentative paragraph related to an author’s style. This lesson may be adapted to fit any text with a particular style... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 20th, 2024
Style and Syntax
Students will determine basic properties of quadrilaterals through activities and games. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: May 31st, 2022
Properties of Quadrilaterals
Students will investigate the similarity of reproduction, embryonic development, and DNA sequences to illustrate the indirect evidence for evolution. "How EGG-ceptional Are We?" is written for a general biology course. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 19th, 2024
Evolution: Embryonic Development
This lesson analyzes the impact of minor political parties on national elections. Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: November 17th, 2022
U.S Government
Students will identify common lab mistakes via simulated lab stations. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 22nd, 2023
Lab Safety
This lesson addresses the components of evidence used to support hypotheses, as well as qualitative versus quantitative and primary versus secondary. This would be a good lesson to start the year and requires no prerequisite skills. This lesson includes optional modifications for distance learning.... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: July 11th, 2023
Experimental Components
Elements of an Essay
In this lesson, students will engage in multiple independent and group strategies to both identify and analyze essential structural elements of an essay. By doing this, students will both practice and gain a clearer perspective of how to write with greater clarity and effectiveness. Read more »
Created by: Jane Baber
Date Updated: August 10th, 2023
Students will use a graphing calculator to explore function transformations on polynomial (quadratic and cubic), radical (square root and cube root), and transcendental (exponential and logarithmic) functions. Students then generalize these transformations using function notation. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: April 5th, 2024
Function Transformations
In this lesson, students will listen to a song while completing a painting activity. Students will collaborate to paint a list of descriptive words on their canvases based on the song. Considering the song lyrics as poetry, students will analyze the song, focusing on descriptive language and sensory... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: October 8th, 2024
Communication: Using Descriptive Language
In this lesson on Greek and Latin roots, guide students to explore word origins by discovering root words and applying them to their writing. Have students work in groups to recognize Latin and Greek roots using learning strategies. Lead them through a reading and annotation activity to identify English... Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: October 3rd, 2024
Greek and Latin Roots
Students will analyze primary documents to better understand the colonial resistance to British rule and how this resistance influenced the American Revolution. Read more »
Created by: Brandi Graham
Date Updated: June 22nd, 2023
Colonial Resistance and Movement Towards Revolution
In this lesson, students explore strategies that they can use to identify the main idea and key details in an informational text. Students identify main ideas, supporting details, and nonessential details in visual advertisements, paragraphs, and full texts. At the end of lesson, students reflect on... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: October 29th, 2024
Identifying the Main Idea
Banned Books, Censorship Part 1
Through conversation and close reading, students will begin the study of a controversial work of literature by examining the pros and cons of trigger warnings in our society. Students will choose two published opinion pieces (one from both sides of the free-speech debate) and deconstruct the arguments... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 10th, 2023
Banned Books, Censorship Part 1
Students will explore specific angle pair relationships that are created between a set of parallel lines and a transversal. After an understanding of the angle pairs is developed, students will then create a city map that demonstrates their ability to apply these angle pairs. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 17th, 2023
Parallel Lines Cut by a Transversal
Students will use primary sources to explore and help them explain the Boston Massacre. They will compare two images depicting the event and draw conclusions about what happened based on what the artist chose to depict. Students will examine the roles of perspective and propaganda with regard to the... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 29th, 2020
Primary sources
In this lesson, students will relate the distributive property to ordering a combo meal at a fast-food restaurant. Then they will apply this property to simplify algebraic expressions and explain their steps. Read more »
Created by: Brittany VanCleave
Date Updated: October 16th, 2024
Distributive Property
This lesson will break down the components of a function and the relationship it has to real-world contexts. Students will recall their knowledge of inputs and outputs with a function machine. Students will simplify functions and then evaluate the functions. Students will practice simplifying polynomials... Read more »
Created by: Brittany VanCleave
Date Updated: June 12th, 2024
Function Notation
In this lesson, students will explore the meaning and application of the Bill of Rights. Students will summarize each amendment from the Bill of Rights in their own words and discuss the application of each amendment. Students will then discuss whether or not "ballot selfies" should be a protected form... Read more »
Created by: Sarah Brewer
Date Updated: October 21st, 2024
Interpreting the Bill of Rights
This lesson places students in the role of a college admissions officer in order to help them better understand admissions requirements, the admissions process, and how to fill out a good college application. Read more »
Created by: Kristen Sublett
Date Updated: February 4th, 2024
10th Grade Pre-Campus Visit Learning Activity
Through collaborative research, students will locate, evaluate, and create effective, engaging hooks for a variety of texts. Students will also write a personal narrative and share their openings with fellow classmates. While this lesson is currently aligned only to 9th grade standards, it would be... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 8th, 2024
Writing Personal Narratives
Every surgeon needs to have an in-depth knowledge of the structure of the human body before diving into surgery. The alternative would be catastrophic for the patient. The approach to literature should be no different. For readers to successfully navigate and understand a text, it is important for them... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 10th, 2023
Story Structure
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 »
Created by: Danny Mattox
Date Updated: July 11th, 2023
Electrostatics
Inferencing - reading between the lines - is a challenging, yet important, close reading skill. In this lesson, students practice making inferences in a variety of contexts. Through films, picture books, short stories, and works of literature, students make inferences about character, setting, plot,... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: February 21st, 2024
Inferencing: A Close Reading Strategy
This lesson addresses rules for exponents. Students will discover the rules for exponents through an exploration of numerical expressions and visual representations of exponents. Prerequisites for this lesson include an understanding of the components of an exponent. This lesson allows students to explore... Read more »
Created by: Amber Stokes
Date Updated: September 30th, 2024
Exponent Rules: Digital Breakout
This lesson focuses on eliminating the emotional fear of mathematics by allowing students to evaluate where they are on the math spectrum and identify their goals moving forward. Students explore math concepts taught in past years and analyze their math knowledge to assess their relationship with mathematics.... Read more »
Created by: Brittany VanCleave
Date Updated: September 12th, 2024
A Mathematical Growth Mindset
In this lesson, students will use self-reflection to create a piece of descriptive writing. Students will use sensory details, organizational strategies, and the revision process to produce a short descriptive piece of writing. Read more »
Created by: Keristy Nieto
Date Updated: September 12th, 2024
Creating and Editing Descriptive Writing
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 »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 29th, 2020
MULTIPLICATION Strategies
This lesson looks at the effects and impact of the Civil Rights movement on other social issues such as the Women's Liberation Movement, the United Farmer Workers coalition, and the American Indian Movement. Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: July 6th, 2023
Civil Rights Movement
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 »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: July 25th, 2022
Relationship Between the Unit Circle and the Sine Curve
Students will investigate logistic functions as mathematical models of real-world situations, such as zombie outbreaks, and make comparisons with exponential growth models. Students will learn about the properties of the logistic curves and how to graph logistic functions by hand. This lesson can be... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 26th, 2024
Logistic Functions
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 »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 7th, 2023
Geometry, Volume, & Exponents
Frog dissections are a classic biology lab. This lesson is best not only after students have had some gross anatomy but also when you trust students enough to let them use scalpels in the classroom. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 4th, 2022
Frog Dissection
To activate prior knowledge and introduce two tales from "The Canterbury Tales," students complete an Anticipation Guide before discussing theme statements from the tales. Then, students work collaboratively to read the tales and compile two-column notes during reading. Students revisit their Anticipation... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 19th, 2024
Themes in Literature
Students will investigate animal behavior by conducting experiments to see how worms respond to stimuli. Read more »
Created by: Danny Mattox
Date Updated: August 19th, 2024
Animal Behavior
Part of any adolescent's life is determining one's identity. In this lesson, students will initially consider who they are as people—what makes up their identities. Then, they will work through several readings, including a poem and two short stories, with a focus on the role characterization and character... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 23rd, 2024
Characterization / Character Traits
In this lesson, students will estimate population data leading them to discover the midpoint formula. They will then apply the formula they created to various other real-world applications. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: October 2nd, 2023
Discovering Midpoint Formula Through Estimations
In order to generate ideas for a persuasive piece of writing, students will brainstorm pros and cons related to the issue of school uniforms. Using their prewritings, students will draft a piece arguing for or against the implementation of school uniforms. Then, students will analyze a peer's writing... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: February 15th, 2024
Peer Editing and Revising
Students will use an example problem about the Three Sisters to complete a Strategy Harvest and develop a conceptual understanding of multiplying. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: May 31st, 2023
Multiplication
This lesson invites students to think about what they know about nouns, verbs, adjectives, and other components of a sentence. Students study a picture prompt and work as a class to compose sentences describing it. Then, students practice diagramming their sentence by drawing color-coded "train cars"... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 29th, 2020
Composing Grammatically Correct Sentences
In this lesson, students will learn the relationship between position, velocity, speed, and acceleration to solve real-world problems involving motion along a line. Students are expected to know the chain rule and how to find higher-order derivatives for both power and trigonometric functions before... Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: March 17th, 2023
Connecting Position, Velocity, and Acceleration
This lesson focuses on applying Newton's third law of motion and on finding solutions to problems associated with collision. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to examine and explain evidence to support Newton's third law of motion, identify a real-world problem involving a transfer of... Read more »
Created by: Alonna Smith
Date Updated: September 16th, 2024
Forces and Motion
In this lesson about perspectives in the Civil War, students will participate in a role-playing activity to become familiar with the motives and points of view of various key figures in the Civil War; analyze each figure in greater depth; participate in a close reading and annotation activity involving... Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: October 11th, 2024
Perspectives in The Civil War
In this lesson about the journalism writing process and the role of a copy editor, students will explore the importance of grammar and style. Students will work in groups to identify the key elements of a news story through a Card Sort. Then, students will work independently to practice editing a paragraph... Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: September 26th, 2024
Copy Editing and the Writing Process
In this lesson, students will use questions, a book, and their favorite foods to explore multi-digit division with tools and strategies they already know. Students will also practice making conjectures (or reasonable estimated solutions). After students find a solution to the main problem, the teacher... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: February 20th, 2024
Partial Quotients
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
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 »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 21st, 2020
Taxes and the Community Services They Provide
This lesson focuses on the relationship between a set of numbers and the constraints of the inequality. The goal is to find possible solutions for one-variable inequalities. Students will write, graph, and identify solutions of inequalities and connect them back to real-world scenarios when applicable.... Read more »
Created by: Brittany VanCleave
Date Updated: March 17th, 2023
Inequalities With One Variable
This lesson is an extension of the Memes > GIFs lesson, adding a second variable to the equation. The goal is to understand and find possible solutions for two-variable inequalities. Students will translate real-life problems into linear inequalities and make the connection between the two. They will... Read more »
Created by: Brittany VanCleave
Date Updated: August 10th, 2023
Inequalities With Two Variables
Students will learn about the FAFSA process and complete their own demo FAFSA application. Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: April 26th, 2023
Standard 7: Paying for College
In this lesson about the women's rights movement, students familiarize themselves with the experiences of women in the 19th century. Next, students interact with a short video summarizing the significance of the Seneca Falls Convention and the Declaration of Sentiments as the formal kickoff of the women's... Read more »
Created by: Sarah Brewer
Date Updated: September 12th, 2024
Women's Rights Movement
In this lesson, students explore the patterns of rhyme and syllables in Shakespearean sonnets in order to understand iambic pentameter. Students compose their own original sonnets. Read more »
Created by: Jordin Carmichael
Date Updated: December 8th, 2020
Shakespearean Sonnets and Iambic Pentameter
Students will look at the increase in seismic activity in Oklahoma and around the United States in recent years. Some say the earthquakes are a direct result of an oil and gas process called hydraulic fracturing, while others disagree. Students will investigate this question for themselves and formulate... Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: July 10th, 2024
Earthquakes in Oklahoma
In this lesson, students will observe the colors in emission spectra for different excited gases. They will compare the specific emitted wavelengths and explain how these specific emitted wavelengths are the result of energetic and physical transitions by electrons in excited atoms. They will then apply... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: September 25th, 2024
Light Emission Energetics and Spectra
In this lesson, students will learn how to characterize Newton's First Law of Motion as a cause-and-effect relationship and use these relationships to make predictions about how the natural world functions. Read more »
Created by: Teresa Randall
Date Updated: September 7th, 2022
Newton's First Law of Motion
During this interactive science lesson, students will learn about the patterns of the moon and lunar phases. Over the course of one month, students will observe the moon, look for patterns, and make predictions about the changes in the moon each night. Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: May 5th, 2023
Phases of the Moon
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 »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 28th, 2023
Evolution: Embryonic Development
Sometimes, students have an aversion to writing because they lack a sense of purpose. In this lesson, students learn that letters can be an important way to communicate and can be fun to write. First, students brainstorm what they already know about letters and then explore letters written by a variety... Read more »
Created by: Makala Foley
Date Updated: September 10th, 2024
Writing Letters
Students will use springs to investigate the quantitative characteristics of waves. Then, they will use their data to derive the formula connecting frequency, wavelength, and velocity. Later, students will connect those math ideas to an example from nature. This lesson is Part 2 of "Beyond the Slinky®,"... Read more »
Created by: Danny Mattox
Date Updated: June 27th, 2023
Quantitative Characteristics of Waves
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 »
Created by: Mariah Warren
Date Updated: April 18th, 2023
Biological Unity and Diversity
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 »
Created by: Brittany VanCleave
Date Updated: August 17th, 2023
Parallel Lines, Transversal Lines, and Angles
Building upon students' understanding of gravity, this lesson helps them to determine that gravity is attractive and is correlated with mass and inversely correlative with distance. Rather than using calculations or formulas, students use data and tables to determine whether the provided information... Read more »
Created by: Alonna Smith
Date Updated: November 9th, 2022
Relative Gravity and Gravitational Force
This lesson focuses on the properties of real numbers, properties of equality, and inverse operations to help students solve linear equations. The goal is for students to understand the fundamentals of isolating a variable. Students will then be able to solve two-step equations by applying properties... Read more »
Created by: Matthew McDonald
Date Updated: May 18th, 2023
Solving Two-Step Equations
In this lesson, students build on prior knowledge of solving equations to learn how to solve absolute value equations. Students then compare and contrast four types of equations including two-step, multi-step, literal, and absolute value equations. This is the fourth lesson in the four-part "Journey... Read more »
Created by: Amber Stokes
Date Updated: November 11th, 2024
Absolute Value Equations
This lesson focuses on the properties of real numbers, properties of equality, and inverse operations to help students solve linear equations on a deeper level. The goal is for students to understand the fundamentals of isolating a variable and to apply that knowledge to more complex problems. Students... Read more »
Created by: Brittany VanCleave
Date Updated: September 22nd, 2022
Solving Multi-Step Equations
In this lesson, students will engage in a hands-on learning activity centered around a geometric construct called a hexomino. Similar to the more familiar domino (with two squares fused together on a side), a hexomino consists of six squares fused together. Students will (1) use spatial reasoning skills... Read more »
Created by: Amber Stokes
Date Updated: June 17th, 2022
Area, Perimeter, Spatial Reasoning, and Patterns
Students will read and analyze the short story "The Interlopers." They will determine multiple themes throughout the story, compare character motivation, and evaluate the effects of setting on the story. Using a similar format, students will research a popular “feud” in contemporary culture or history... Read more »
Created by: Polly Base
Date Updated: September 10th, 2024
Conflict, Motivation, and Setting
Students will sort 14 star spectra and create a star classification system to develop science classification skills. Through analysis of figures that describe the OBAFGKM classification system and temperature effects on element absorption in stars, students will learn that star spectra can be used to... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: July 9th, 2024
Light, Stars, and Blackbody Radiation
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 »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 30th, 2024
Polygons and the Exterior Angle Sum Theorem
Elected officials are elected to help their constituents and work on their behalf, but how do we contact them to express our thoughts on issues or ask for help? This lesson explores civil discourse in the context of writing to elected officials. Students will review letters to past presidents, participate... Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: April 10th, 2024
Contacting Your Elected Officials
This lesson is part of a series, titled "Woman Crush Wednesday," where we look at how female scientists have shaped our views of science. In this biology lesson, students explore the contributions of Nettie Stevens and her discovery of sex chromosomes. Read more »
Created by: Mariah Warren
Date Updated: September 6th, 2024
Inheritance and Variation of Traits
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 »
Created by: Mariah Warren
Date Updated: April 18th, 2023
Understanding Mitosis
The lesson is an extension of the slope and point-slope forms of linear equations, with a focus on parallel lines. The goal is for students to understand which characteristics make a line parallel and apply that knowledge to solve problems. After completing the lesson, students will be able to define,... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: August 17th, 2023
Writing Equations of Parallel Lines
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 »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: November 14th, 2024
I'm a Survivor
Equality, Fairness, and the Amendments
Students will read and analyze the short story, "Harrison Bergeron," by American writer Kurt Vonnegut. Students will consider how the amendments to the constitution promote equality. They will discuss different claims, which support the amendments, and discuss evidence or lack of evidence to explain... Read more »
Created by: Polly Base
Date Updated: August 29th, 2024
Equality, Fairness, and the Amendments
In this geometry lesson, students will recall vocabulary about a circle, use their knowledge of midpoint and distance formulas to write the equation of a circle, and explore the connection between the equation of a circle and the Pythagorean Theorem. This is a multimodality lesson, which means it includes... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: July 10th, 2024
Writing the Equation of a Circle
In this lesson, students will analyze ancient civilizations to understand how the environment impacts both human settlement and the characteristics of a civilization. Students will construct PERSIA graphic organizers of the civilization they live in and compare their civilizations with the ancient civilizations... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: November 14th, 2024
Characteristics of Civilization
In this lesson, students will explore the problems that industrialization created for workers by examining a collection of photos and texts. Next, students will read about the rise of labor unions in response to the problems previously identified and their overarching goals. To extend their learning,... Read more »
Created by: Sarah Brewer
Date Updated: September 13th, 2022
The Labor Movement
Students begin the lesson by exploring book titles and discussing why authors write the books they do. Students will use a card sort activity and view a video clip to discover three purposes for writing. Students create individual anchor charts in the form of a paper plate Purpose PIE. The Purpose Pies... Read more »
Created by: Michelle Mette
Date Updated: May 31st, 2023
Author’s Purpose
In this seventh lesson of the "Lord of the Flies" unit, students examine the idea of evil and whether or not individuals can overcome the worst thing they have ever done. Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: September 13th, 2024
Good to Be Bad
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 second lesson of the What Is a Wave? unit, students will review key concepts from the first lesson using the Strike Out! strategy. Students will connect prior learning to new content by watching videos that demonstrate the speed of sound waves, and then will be introduced to the Triangle of... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: June 1st, 2023
Not the Bermuda Triangle
In this lesson, students will read and compare two short stories by Roald Dahl looking specifically at the female leads and reflecting on societal assumptions. Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: November 4th, 2024
Character Analysis Across Multiple Texts
In this lesson, students will use their existing knowledge to find the area and perimeter of triangles, rectangles, and trapezoids to discover how to find the area of a regular polygon and apply their knowledge to real-world scenarios. Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: April 3rd, 2024
Area and Perimeter of Regular Polygons
Students will explore the properties of congruent polygons and analyze how to apply those properties to solve problems. Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: August 17th, 2023
Congruent Polygons
Is lettuce interesting? The answer depends on whom you ask. Whether the subject of lettuce is personally captivating or not, a good essay on the subject requires a thesis statement to organize the text and to keep the reader oriented and focused. A strong thesis statement not only helps the reader,... Read more »
Created by: Jane Baber
Date Updated: June 20th, 2023
Writing a Thesis Statement
In this lesson, students will explore the technology used by European explorers during the Age of Exploration. Through analyzing images, watching a video, and selecting an activity from a Choice Board, students will learn about four navigational tools and how this new technology influenced European... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: June 23rd, 2022
European Exploration and Navigational Tools
In this lesson, students will recall solving equations with rational exponents and radicals. Using graphs, students will recall evaluating and solving equations with function notation. Students then will learn how to address extraneous solutions and why they exist. Students will apply this new knowledge... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: August 14th, 2023
Extraneous Solutions
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 »
Created by: Polly Base
Date Updated: July 17th, 2023
Speaking and Listening
In the interview with British Vogue, "Ask a Legend: Billie Eilish Answers Questions from Justin Bieber & 22 Other Famous Fans," singer-songwriter Billie Eilish said of her lyric writing process: “It’s good to know the basics of something because then you can take those basics and shift them around.”... Read more »
Created by: Jane Baber
Date Updated: September 16th, 2024
Writing an Outline
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 »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: August 29th, 2024
Solving Exponential Equations
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 lesson, students will discover properties of logarithms. Students will use the properties to work through a proof of the change of base formula, to solve logarithmic equations, and to evaluate logarithmic expressions. Prerequisites for this lesson include solving exponential equations using... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: August 10th, 2023
Solving Logarithmic Equations
Students will understand the events and ideologies that led to the establishment of federally funded and religious boarding schools for American Indians. Students will examine the boarding school experiences of American Indians from Oklahoma and other states and territories, and they will identify the... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: May 22nd, 2023
American Indian Boarding Schools
In this lesson, students analyze how trench warfare affected soldiers in World War I by reading a letter by a soldier, interacting with a trench warfare museum exhibit, and viewing a video about trench warfare. Students extend their learning by crafting an article or narrative about trench warfare and... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: August 4th, 2022
Trench Warfare in World War I
In this lesson, students will explore how to find the surface area of prisms and pyramids. Students will discover the general formulas for finding surface area of prisms and pyramids and are introduced to the surface area of spheres and hemispheres. Students will apply what they learn to create a composite... Read more »
Created by: Samaya Williams
Date Updated: July 5th, 2024
Surface Area of Prisms and Pyramids
In this lesson, students are introduced to the concept of federalism. Students will begin by analyzing statements about governmental power, then reading a short narrative to locate references to the government's role in our daily lives. Students will then watch a video about federalism, complete a graphic... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: May 26th, 2023
An Introduction to Federalism
In this lesson, students will discover how matrices are used in computer graphics. Students will learn how to perform the matrix operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and scalar multiplication. They will then learn how multiplying matrices relates to transformations and, in turn, animation... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: April 10th, 2024
Matrices in Computer Graphics
In this second lesson of a media production unit, students interact with sound equipment, such as an audio mixer, subwoofer, loudspeaker, and a microphone, to determine the purpose of each piece of equipment. Students interact with media equipment, view a video about how to set up a stage and take notes,... Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
Date Updated: July 10th, 2024
Media Production, Lesson 2
In this lesson, students will explore the way in which culture is connected to the foods people eat. Students will examine how their own favorite foods are connected to their cultural identities and read Amy Tan's short story "Fish Cheeks." Read more »
Created by: Lisa Loughlin
Date Updated: August 10th, 2023
Exploring Cultural Identity Through Food
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 »
Created by: Patricia Turner
Date Updated: September 11th, 2024
Persuasive Writing
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 lesson. Students use video technology to gain opportunities to communicate in a new and exciting manner. Students experience a... Read more »
Created by: Polly Base
Date Updated: October 14th, 2024
Building Relationships & Community in the Classroom
In this lesson, students are introduced to function composition through a real-world scenario and pattern recognition. Students will learn composition notation and review domain restrictions caused by function operations. Students will use function composition to determine if functions are inverses.... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: August 17th, 2023
Function Composition
In this lesson, students will look at the question of neutrality through the lens of the Holocaust. Students will explore articles from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's website, read an excerpt from Elie Wiesel's book, "Night," and read Elie Wiesel's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech while synthesizing... Read more »
Created by: Lisa Loughlin
Date Updated: July 10th, 2024
Exploring the Role of Neutrality in the Holocaust
This lesson will introduce students to the Second Red Scare (also known as the era of McCarthyism), the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), and the public fear of communism that ran rampant in the 1940s and 1950s. Students will analyze a political cartoon that addresses the public fear... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: July 18th, 2022
The Impact of the Second Red Scare
In this lesson about the labor movement, students will compare and contrast photos of farmworkers that were taken before the start of the movement and in the present day. Students will watch a video and examine an infographic to learn about the injustices faced by farmworkers, the rise of the labor... Read more »
Created by: Mariana DeLoera
Date Updated: September 7th, 2023
The United Farm Workers Union and the Delano Grape Strike
In this lesson, students analyze the legislation enacted immediately following the Civil War and examine the effects that legislation had, especially on newly freed slaves. Students will then make connections between the harsh realities of the Reconstruction Era and more current Civil Rights issues... Read more »
Created by: Mariana DeLoera
Date Updated: May 18th, 2023
The Reconstruction Era
This lesson is a basic introduction to setting up a chemical equation. This could be part of a unit for physical science and can be done as a refresher or opener in chemistry for chemical equations. Read more »
Created by: Brittany Bowens
Date Updated: October 11th, 2022
Chemical Reactions
In this lesson, students are introduced to the life and legacy of Emmett Louis Till. Jim Crow laws had enforced segregation throughout the South for decades, and numerous African-Americans had fallen victim to violent lynchings. Till’s brutal murder was for many Americans the last straw, and it served... Read more »
Created by: Mariana DeLoera
Date Updated: September 16th, 2022
The Early Struggles Against Jim Crow and Racism
In this lesson, students will dive deeper into what Greek and Latin roots mean and how and why they are embedded into our everyday vocabulary. Using hands-on activities, students will examine specific root meanings and where they come from. Next, they will watch an interview with a former professor... Read more »
Created by: Lisa Loughlin
Date Updated: June 22nd, 2023
Examining Greek and Latin Word Parts
In this lesson, students evaluate the foreign policies of Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, and Woodrow Wilson. Students consider the dilemmas presidents faced and learn the motivations behind their diplomatic policies. The use of diplomacy is extended to the modern era through a video of how George... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: July 24th, 2023
Foreign Relations of Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson
This lesson will ask students to consider and respond to the following essential question: "Why should we remember the Holocaust?" First, students will investigate the events that happened during the Holocaust by examining an infographic and reading the testimonies of those who experienced it. Next,... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: August 9th, 2024
Stories of the Holocaust
In this lesson, students evaluate how the media played a role in the presidency and resignation of President Richard Nixon by exploring news articles and watching a video. Students extend their learning by analyzing the history of presidential impeachments. As a reflection to wrap up the lesson, students... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: February 21st, 2023
The Role of the Media in Nixon's Presidency
This lesson is a single-day introduction to key vocabulary related to the Enlightenment period. Students will engage in discussion about general concepts raised by philosophers of the time, sort terms into common themes, and begin to relate them to American life today. Read more »
Created by: Brayden Stone
Date Updated: May 31st, 2023
Introduction to the Enlightenment
In this interactive lesson, students engage with their peers by taking a stance on a topic and providing reasoning that supports their opinion. Then students read through a series of persuasive essays, identifying and discussing the persuasive elements found in the essays. Students then write their... Read more »
Created by: Ashley Poole
Date Updated: June 17th, 2024
Persuasive Writing
Analyzing Imagery In Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains"
In this lesson, students discuss smart houses and the impact of smart technology in society in small-group and whole-class discussions. Students then read Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" and analyze the imagery throughout before writing a brief literary analysis. Next, students watch an... Read more »
Created by: Lisa Loughlin
Date Updated: September 1st, 2023
Analyzing Imagery In Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains"
In this lesson, students will explore the culture of the Osage tribe and their ribbonwork. Students will apply what they have learned about math and indigenous cultures to create their own ribbonwork design and demonstrate their understanding of reflections and reflective symmetry. Prerequisite knowledge... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: December 13th, 2023
Reflections: Osage Ribbonwork
In this lesson, students will explore the culture of the Plains tribes and their Star Quilts. They will then use patterns to explore rotations and discover algebraic rules for common rotations. Students will apply what they learn to create their own quilt block and demonstrate their understanding of... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: December 13th, 2023
Rotations: Plains Star Quilts
In this lesson, students will explore the culture of Native Americans and their beadwork. They will then use patterns to explore dilations and discover the relationship between the center of dilation, the preimage, and the image. Students will apply what they have learned to create their own beadwork... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: December 13th, 2023
Dilations: Beadwork
In this lesson, students will explore the mathematics behind fashion design and summarize their knowledge of transformations. They will then apply what they have learned to solve a puzzle and demonstrate their understanding of composition of transformations. Prerequisite knowledge for this lesson includes... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: May 20th, 2024
Composition of Transformation: Fashion Design
This lesson focuses on events that led up to and occurred during the "Space Race" between the United States (U.S.) and the Union of Soviet Socialists Republic (U.S.S.R.). The lesson introduces students to the astronauts, cosmonauts, scientists, and politicians who played pivotal roles on both sides.... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: May 24th, 2023
The Space Race
In Part 2 of this lesson on federalism, students discuss a political cartoon, summarize governmental powers, and illustrate a given power. Learning will be extended by analyzing how the federal government influenced the states to change their drinking age. Finally, students complete a justified true... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: May 31st, 2023
Powers of the Federal Government and the States
Examining Symbolism in Native American Poetry and Art
In this lesson, students examine symbolism in Native regalia, poems, and art and gain a better understanding of what symbolism looks like in a real-world context. Throughout the lesson, students research and discuss Native authors, tribes, and artists. After reading and annotating a poem, students create... Read more »
Created by: Lisa Loughlin
Date Updated: September 14th, 2023
Examining Symbolism in Native American Poetry and Art
Students will use the reciprocal, quotient, and Pythagorean trigonometric identities to solve equations. They will listen to a petroleum engineer describe his work and how trigonometric identities are used to solve problems when drilling. This lesson is the second lesson of four in a “Trig Identities”... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: May 22nd, 2024
Reciprocal, Quotient, and Pythagorean Identities
Students discover the sum and difference identities for sine, cosine, and tangent. They discover the double-angle identities for sine and cosine. They will then use those identities to practice simplifying and verifying trigonometric identities during this archeologist-themed lesson. The prerequisite... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: September 27th, 2023
Sum, Difference, and Double-Angle Identities
Changes in the Earth Over Time: What’s the Evidence?
In this lesson, students learn how geological time can be predicted by examining strata layers and fossil evidence. They explore different rock strata and fossils, making comparisons and inferences. Using provided specimens, students determine which species existed during various time periods in Earth's... Read more »
Created by: Danny Mattox
Date Updated: August 15th, 2024
Changes in the Earth Over Time: What’s the Evidence?
Students will use their knowledge of real world scenarios to graph a situation. After graphing, the students will use prior knowledge to connect vocabulary terms to the graphs that were created before practicing their own scenario to be graphed. This lesson is intended to introduce the basics of quadratics,... Read more »
Created by: Lydia Baker
Date Updated: August 29th, 2024
Visual Approach to Parabolas
Examining Intrinsic & Extrinsic Motivation Through Character Analysis in Macbeth
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 »
Created by: Lisa Loughlin
Date Updated: September 28th, 2023
Examining Intrinsic & Extrinsic Motivation Through Character Analysis in Macbeth
In this lesson, students first review the principle of superposition of waves and constructive and destructive interference with slinkies. Students then investigate diffraction and how different variables change the interference pattern in the double slit experiment using the Wave Interference Phet... Read more »
Created by: Kevin Warren
Date Updated: March 1st, 2024
Quantum Mechanics
In this lesson, students learn about the surprising results of the double slit experiment showing that particles have wavelike behavior through watching a Dr. Quantum video and through the PhET Quantum Wave Interference simulation. Students are split into groups to watch curated videos and create slideshow... Read more »
Created by: Kevin Warren
Date Updated: September 19th, 2024
Quantum Mechanics
In this lesson, students consider the concept of percent yield as a measure of the efficiency or effectiveness of a chemical reaction. It encourages students to think about how the theoretical yield (the amount of product calculated from stoichiometry) compares to the actual yield (the amount of product... Read more »
Created by: Brittany Bowens
Date Updated: January 17th, 2024
Stoichiometry--Percent Yield
This lesson explores a couple of Supreme Court decisions that have specified individual rights of due process under the Constitution. Students will examine the events that led up to the cases of Gideon v. Wainwright and Miranda v. Arizona by analyzing portions of the 5th, 6th, and 14th amendments. They... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: September 18th, 2023
Gideon v. Wainwright & Miranda v. Arizona
In this lesson, students practice adding and subtracting polynomial expressions. They watch a video about a complicated food order and discuss the idea of combining like items to simplify the order. Students use math manipulatives to explore how to use addition and subtraction to simplify polynomial... Read more »
Created by: Samaya Williams
Date Updated: July 18th, 2024
Adding and Subtracting Polynomials
In this lesson, students will explore the history of the loss of land for Native American tribes and how policies in place further contributed to the loss. Students explore the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887, the Curtis Act, and the Burke Act and their lasting impacts. To extend their learning, students... Read more »
Created by: Mariana DeLoera
Date Updated: October 25th, 2023
The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887
This lesson introduces students to the phenomenon of the bystander effect. They begin by examining situations in which the bystander effect has been known to occur. They also have an opportunity to analyze hypothetical scenarios and determine whether or not they are examples of the phenomenon. Students... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: October 14th, 2024
The Bystander Effect and How to Overcome It
Students use manipulatives to investigate triangle congruence and complete proofs using triangle congruence theorems in this game-show themed lesson. Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: February 28th, 2024
Investigating Triangle Congruence Theorems
Students are introduced to several reasons books are written, identifying the purpose of a series of different books. Students watch a video interview of a child author. Through a series of pictographs, students then discover the many ways people have made books, from pictures to words on tablets, stones,... Read more »
Created by: Pam Bracken
Date Updated: April 3rd, 2024
Exploring Creativity
The basics of envelopes and applying the concepts to musical performance
In this lesson for band classes, students will discuss what “attack” and “release” mean in a musical context. Students will participate in a “30-Second Expert” activity in pairs, in which one student reads about ADSR (attack, decay, sustain, and release) envelopes on synths and the other reads about... Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
Date Updated: May 7th, 2024
The basics of envelopes and applying the concepts to musical performance
In this lesson, students will explore the relationship between piecewise functions and payroll taxes, specifically FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act) taxes. Students will learn how piecewise functions can be represented verbally, algebraically, graphically, and numerically. The tax information... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: October 24th, 2024
FICA and Functions
In this lesson, students will use their knowledge of derivatives and pattern-recognition skills to find antiderivatives. Students will begin with the power rule for integration, evaluate the indefinite integral of basic trigonometric expressions, then learn how to integrate with u-substitution. Students... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: August 13th, 2024
Integration by Substitution
In this lesson, students develop a GIS map that reflects spatial and temporal responses of bison to prescribed fires that have occurred on The Nature Conservancy's Joseph H. Williams Tallgrass Prairie Preserve. Students will use their maps to draw conclusions about bison’s response to fire. Read more »
Created by: Teresa Randall
Date Updated: November 20th, 2024
Environmental Science
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
In this lesson, students will design characters from shapes. Read more »
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 »
Created by: Teresa Lansford
Date Updated: June 26th, 2024
Students who become financially responsible in college will develop good spending habits that will last a lifetime. This activity enables students to understand ways in which they can change their spending habits, so that they will save money throughout college and in the years that will follow. Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: June 26th, 2024
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: March 20th, 2024
In this activity, students will recall perimeter and area and apply their knowledge to ACT-style problems. These problems will require students to think in a way that is expected for college and career readiness. This includes both recalling essential skills and applying knowledge to solve area and... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: March 20th, 2024
In this activity, students will focus on probability and Venn diagrams. Students will be given a brief introduction of probability, use Venn diagrams to help with counting, and then practice probability-related ACT-style math questions. This is the fourth activity in a 10-week "Power Up" series for... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: August 27th, 2024
In this activity, students will explore function notation and operations. Students will use function composition and other operations to simplify and evaluate functions. This is the sixth activity in a 10-week "Power Up" series for ACT prep. Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: August 27th, 2024
In this activity, students will learn how to approach story problems to make them less intimidating. Students will then apply their learning to a set of ACT-style math problems. This is the eighth activity in a 10-week "Power Up" series for ACT prep. Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: August 27th, 2024
In this activity, students will apply formulas common in secondary and early college-level mathematics in the context of a descriptive scenario. They will apply what they learned during "Power Up: Math ACT Prep, Week 8" to solve story problems that require formulas that are not given. Students will... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: January 4th, 2024
In this activity, students will recall vocabulary about right triangles, then review sine, cosine, and tangent ratios. Students will then apply this knowledge to find missing sides, unknown angles, and other related information through practicing ACT-style math questions. This is the final activity... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: August 27th, 2024
In this English ACT prep activity, students will focus on usage conventions. First, students will identify what is “not quite right” with some poor grammar depicted on memes. Then, students review seven of the most prevalent usage standards through a Card Matching activity. Finally, students apply their... Read more »
Created by: Patricia McDaniels-Gomez
Date Updated: September 19th, 2024
In this English ACT prep activity, students focus on punctuation conventions. First, students identify "grammar fails" with some poor grammar depicted in real-world examples. Then, students review eight of the most prevalent punctuation standards through a "What Do You Meme?" and Padlet activity. Then,... Read more »
Created by: Patricia McDaniels-Gomez
Date Updated: September 19th, 2024
In this third science ACT prep activity, students learn strategies for interpreting graphs, particularly for when they are unfamiliar with the content in the science passages. First, students focus on the components of tables and graphs that convey key information through Categorical Highlighting. Next,... Read more »
Created by: Teresa Lansford
Date Updated: August 28th, 2024
In this English ACT prep activity, students review the content from the past nine prep activities. First, students review skills learned from week nine. Then, students practice questions reflective of the topics still confusing to them using Magoosh. Finally, they end the class revisiting their Goal... Read more »
Created by: Patricia McDaniels-Gomez
Date Updated: January 30th, 2024
This 8th-grade campus visit activity will complement a student tour of a college or career tech campus to learn about postsecondary options. Students will participate in a learning activity to explore their interests, career clusters, and postsecondary opportunities to prepare for various careers. The... Read more »
Created by: Lori Kemmet
Date Updated: November 19th, 2024
This session focuses on helping students and their families prepare for college by learning useful task management and organization skills. Participants will play a game where they simulate organizing their weekly calendar, then they will explore digital tools that can aid them in their task management,... Read more »
Created by: Jane Reynolds
Date Updated: June 11th, 2024
In this lesson, students will learn about the history of Ivy League institutions and their role in postsecondary education. They will begin by becoming familiar with some of the many famous and successful people who attended Ivy League schools. Students will explore and conduct their own research on... Read more »
Created by: Mariana DeLoera
Date Updated: November 14th, 2024
