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: July 18th, 2025
This professional development session focuses on the components of authentic learning. Participants will connect the components of authentic learning to a Rumpelstiltskin lesson. Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: August 14th, 2025
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: July 23rd, 2025
In this lesson, students will work on their very own assembly line to create "kicks'' fit for the Second Industrial Revolution. Through an exploration of texts and videos, students will begin to formalize their understanding of industrialization and how technological change and innovation has impacted... Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: May 12th, 2023
Intro to the American Industrial Revolution
In collaborative groups, students will work to understand and create point-of-view statements, such as tweets for a mock Twitter debate, for both Federalists' and Anti-Federalists' viewpoints on ratifying the U.S. Constitution. Then, students will identify important issues currently being debated on... Read more »
Created by: Sarah Brewer
Date Updated: July 29th, 2024
Ratification of the Constitution Debate
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. Then, they will... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: May 28th, 2025
Light Emission Energetics and Spectra
In this lesson, students use an online fossil database to explore changes in life forms throughout the history of life on Earth. Students also make predictions about environmental changes and how those changes affect organisms living in different environments. Students then analyze anatomical similarities... Read more »
Created by: Alonna Smith
Date Updated: August 7th, 2025
Evidence of Common Ancestry and Diversity
This lesson gives students a sneak peek inside how a sports statistician interprets team and player statistics. Students will analyze basketball player data from the OKC Thunder's 2021–22 season related to measures of central tendency. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to calculate measures... Read more »
Created by: Laura Young
Date Updated: May 20th, 2025
Measures of Central Tendency
Students reflect on their life after high school. In groups they are tasked with finding facts about various Post-Secondary Education options through a virtual scavenger hunt. Acting like a recruiter, students present their key information to the class. They reflect on which school matched best with... Read more »
Created by: Amber Stokes
Date Updated: October 5th, 2022