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
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 6th, 2024
This professional development session focuses on the components of authentic learning. The session is designed to have a minimum of eight participants. Participants will connect the components of authentic learning to a Rumpelstiltskin lesson and explore ways to make their own lessons more authentic... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: August 6th, 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
Data, data everywhere! But how can teachers get students excited, engaged, and comfortable interacting with it? Students have fun collecting data on all sorts of things in the classroom but struggle with what to do with the data once they are done. Come experience cutting-edge, user-friendly sensor... Read more »
Created by: Shayna Pond
Date Updated: July 30th, 2024
In this session, participants explore themes from research on the benefits of extra/co-curricular activities and analyze the ways in which club activity design connects back to the research. Facilitators model guidance that participants can apply to their classrooms; this will provide educators with... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: June 26th, 2024
Students will explore climate variation in various environments using EOMF (Earth Observation and Modeling Facility) data, GIS (Geospatial Information Science) data, and weather and climate data. Students will use their observations and data to make predictions about future environmental change and... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 14th, 2023
Climate Variation
In this lesson, students will understand the essential elements of identity theft and consumer fraud. They will create a PSA-style poster or video about how to avoid identity theft. This lesson includes optional modifications for distance learning. Resources for use in Google Classroom are included. Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: August 3rd, 2023
Standard 9: Identity Theft
To support students' ability to write persuasive essays, this lesson will scaffold aspects of argumentation through paragraph development. Students will first review the use of evidence and reasoning to support a claim by performing a CER analysis of a comic strip. Next, students will work both collaboratively... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 10th, 2023
Writing Paragraphs With Evidence and Reasoning
This lesson introduces students to what makes something living or nonliving. Students will investigate the characteristics of life by identifying the similarities and differences between organisms. Students will then use their knowledge to create dichotomous keys that will be used to determine if an... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: July 30th, 2024
Characteristics of Life and Cell Theory
In this lesson, students connect to the essential question, "What do the effects of life events look like?" through the skill of summarizing. To answer that question, students summarize a slam poem, a short story, and a recent Presidential speech. To make a personal connection to the skill of summarizing,... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 13th, 2024
Summarizing
In this lesson, students will use various strategies while defining the social contract and learning the origin of this political idea. Students will use instructional strategies to relate the ideas upon which our government was founded and research whether or not we are truly an equal society "with... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 3rd, 2022
U.S. Government
To assist students in their ability to determine a theme in literature, this lesson will introduce the concept of theme by using a children's book, although any piece of literature can be used with this lesson. Students will listen to a children's book, collaboratively distinguish between topic and... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 14th, 2023
Themes in Literature
In this lesson, students will read two texts that depict the role of women in American society during the 19th Century. Kate Chopin’s fictional, “The Story of an Hour,” and John H. Young’s, “Our Deportment, or the Manners, Conduct, and Dress of Refined Society,” will be used to analyze elements of... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 15th, 2024
Elements of Fiction
In this lesson, students will closely examine the social problems that emerged in American society as a result of industrialization. Students will interpret and evaluate primary sources from the early 20th Century to understand how photography and journalism exposed desperate social conditions and political... Read more »
Created by: Roger Jackson
Date Updated: September 9th, 2022
Key Figures in the Progressive Movement
Students will investigate the water cycle and how water flows through ecosystems. Students will use statistical analysis and mathematical reasoning to develop models that can determine the factors that contribute to a tree’s influence on matter and energy cycles within an ecosystem. Students will apply... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 17th, 2022
Plant Transpiration and the Water Cycle
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, students will work together to determine the definition of desertification and create a chart to explain the causes and effects of desertification in the sub-Saharan Sahel region. Then, students will learn how Africa is responding to desertification with a project called the Great Green... Read more »
Created by: Sarah Brewer
Date Updated: July 8th, 2024
Desertification of the Sahel
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
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
Science
Students explore water erosion and investigate erosion and weathering in different types of soil. Funding provided by Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grant no. 2013-69002-23146 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 1st, 2024
Science
Students will construct a watershed and discover how water flow impacts humans. IMPORTANT NOTE: Parts of the lesson are adjusted to meet each grade level's specific standard, so be sure to do the parts that correlate with your grade level. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 25th, 2020
Earth and Human Activity
Students will investigate the relationship between mass and volume, which leads to density. This lesson includes modifications for advanced classes if needed. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 3rd, 2023
Relative Density
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 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 10th, 2022
Evidence of Common Ancestry and Diversity
In this lesson, students will explore the meaning of the word "parallel" and analyze how and for what purposes parallel structure is used in speeches. At the end of the lesson, students will compose a tweet to summarize the purpose of parallel structure in writing. This lesson includes optional modifications... Read more »
Created by: Brandy Hackett
Date Updated: September 12th, 2024
Parallel Structure
In this lesson, students analyze the political ideas of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke by brainstorming why people create governments, comparing and contrasting monarchies and democracies and debating as a class which philosopher was right about the amount of power a government should have. Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: June 22nd, 2023
The Philosophies of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes
In this lesson, students examine the nature and function of international trade agreements in the world economy. Through engaging in an interactive story, students learn many important concepts regarding world trade. In addition, students explore both the benefits and drawbacks of trade agreements through... Read more »
Created by: Cody Sivertsen
Date Updated: August 29th, 2024
International Trade Agreements
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: August 14th, 2024
Measures of Central Tendency
Workers in STEM fields provide research and services related to science, technology, engineering, and math. Those in this field gather and examine information, solve problems, and apply their findings. One such career that falls into this cluster is chemical engineering. In this activity, you will explore... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: November 23rd, 2022
Would you like to have a career that lets you help others and make a difference? Social workers have been doing this for more than 100 years, and it continues to be a much-needed job. In this activity, students read about the skills needed to be a social worker and the different career pathways available... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: November 23rd, 2022
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
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