Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
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 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 plans after high school and explore various post-secondary education (PSE) options through a virtual campus scavenger hunt. Working in groups, they research assigned campuses, create presentations as “admissions recruiters,” and share their findings with the class. Finally,... Read more »
Created by: Amber Stokes
Date Updated: September 25th, 2025