Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
Participants will use provided data to construct a viable argument using mathematical reasoning. Participants will also explore ways to incorporate math strategies in other content areas to support math achievement. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: March 11th, 2024
Meeting students where they are can seem like a daunting task, particularly when it comes to the ever-changing world of technology. However, using intentionally designed games can make learning fun, provide opportunities for critical thinking, and enhance knowledge related to mindset. Participants will... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: January 29th, 2024
The G Suite and Google Classroom PD focuses on exploring online instruction and implementation of technology in the classroom by using these innovative collaboration and productivity tools. Participants will collaborate to explore various components of G Suite, including Docs, Slides, Sheets, Forms,... Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: October 25th, 2023
This 120-minute professional development focuses on understanding how virtual reality (VR) can take teaching and learning to a higher level through real-world connections, 21st-century skills, and critical thinking. Participants will explore VR, and then use VR resources to create a lesson or classroom... Read more »
Created by: Mandy Green
Date Updated: February 28th, 2024
This short professional development activity allows participants to interact with G Suite and the Explore button and identify its use in the classroom. Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: July 10th, 2024
Participants will determine how to sequence science lessons through the lens of authenticity to increase student engagement. Participants will engage in a non-example of an authentic science learning experience. Following the activity, participants will reflect upon their experience and how it demonstrates... Read more »
Created by: Heather Shaffery
Date Updated: July 11th, 2024
In this session, participants will explore the value of interactive story as a pedagogical tool, instructional strategies that can help to implement interactive story in existing instruction, and ways that Twine can support building interactive story as learning activities. Participants will engage... Read more »
Created by: Shayna Pond
Date Updated: May 9th, 2023
This session gives participants a guided exploration of K20's LEARN website, including 5E lessons, instructional strategies, tech tools, and tech-integrated strategies, to help them create a repository of resources they can use to aid authentic teaching in the classroom. Read more »
Created by: Laura Young
Date Updated: February 2nd, 2024
This resource is part of a series of professional learning activities that can be used to support a group book study. In each section, you will be able to select from several activities that will enable you and the other participants in your book study group to think critically about the reading. The... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: September 3rd, 2024
This lesson demonstrates how using reading strategies enhances understanding of text. Students are asked to “read” a variety of texts, including art, a video, and a short story, using the OPTIC strategy. Students first make (O)bservations and (P)redictions about the text to aid in their understanding... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 14th, 2024
Visual Literacy
Segregation was a pivotal issue in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Homer Plessy took a stand against segregation and the notion that separate but equal was legal. Upon reviewing and evaluating the Fourteenth Amendment, Jim Crow Laws, the Plessy v. Ferguson case, and other... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 15th, 2024
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 14th, 2024
Evolution: Embryonic Development
This is the first lesson in a series called, “Survival.” In this lesson students will observe different groups of animal groups and why the animals form groups to survive. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 17th, 2020
Animal Adaptations
Students explore exponential functions by investigating exponential decay. Students should already have an introduction to exponential equations before starting this lesson. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 17th, 2023
Exponential Decay
Students will analyze and summarize the philosophical and political principles of ancient and classical societies. Students will work independently and in groups using discussion, text, handouts, and video to identify the impact of Greek and Roman philosophy on the modern world. Read more »
Created by: Cheryl Dezell
Date Updated: May 18th, 2023
Ancient Philosophy
Students are introduced to a more holistic view of doing the scientific method by using scientific thinking instead. Students will be challenged to review and revise what they already know about the scientific method. Students will investigate what it means to do science and discover why some science... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: February 22nd, 2024
Scientific Method vs. Scientific Thinking
Students will be introduced to Shakespeare's language through a hands-on approach. First, students will read the prologue of "Romeo and Juliet" and translate the text into their own words. Then, students will connect with Shakespeare's words in the prologue by thinking of present-day examples of art... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 5th, 2023
Making Shakespeare Accessible
Before, during, and after reading the play "Antigone" by Sophocles, students will use pre-, during-, and after-reading strategies from Kylene Beers' book "When Kids Can't Read." Students will focus on both comprehension of the play and meaningful and relevant themes. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 20th, 2024
The Greek Drama Antigone
This lesson invites students to explore scientific models and simulations to learn about climate and weather phenomena. Students will learn from a meteorologist about how those in the field of climatology use math and science in their careers, as well as the details of this job and career path. By the... Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: October 10th, 2024
ICAP Science: Weather
Students will research the criminal justice system and participate in a mock trial as an assessment of their understanding. Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: September 20th, 2022
The Criminal Justice Process
In this lesson, students build key information literacy skills related to collecting, evaluating, and using information from different media types and formats to support a conclusion. Students start by playing through The Detective: Verona, a digital game-based learning (DGBL) module, to introduce the... Read more »
Created by: William Thompson
Date Updated: July 2nd, 2024
Information Literacy
In this lesson about the growth and development of organisms, students will gather evidence from research about specific plant phenomena, then use research and in-class investigations to explain the relationship between environmental conditions and plant growth. Activities throughout the lesson will... Read more »
Created by: Heather Shaffery
Date Updated: September 12th, 2024
Growth and Development of Organisms
In this lesson, students will learn to compare anatomical similarities and differences between organisms and explain the relationship between organisms based on homologous structures. They begin by reading a recent research article on either parrots or penguins. Then, students learn about the ancient... Read more »
Created by: Teresa Randall
Date Updated: January 11th, 2024
Homologous Structures
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
Setting and Conflict
In this lesson, students experiment with changing the settings in well-known fairy tales and examine how conflict might change in a different setting. Students explore the Prologue from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" and analyze how the setting affects the conflict. After analyzing and comparing different... Read more »
Created by: Shelby Blackwood
Date Updated: September 13th, 2024
Setting and Conflict
Students will evaluate what motivates people, especially as it relates to the main characters in “The Gift of the Magi.” As they read and listen to the story, students will identify thoughts and feelings that relate to the motivations and actions of the main characters. Students will also look for and... Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: June 21st, 2023
Motivation in Characters
In this lesson, students will discuss aspects of performance anxiety when speaking in front of an audience. They will identify strategies to manage these symptoms and create a tool to help improve their confidence when speaking to a group. Read more »
Created by: Adam Yeargin
Date Updated: September 12th, 2024
Speech and Debate
This lesson will introduce students to some of the lesser-known individuals whose actions paved the way for the civil rights movement. Individuals discussed in this lesson include Elizabeth Jennings, Samuel W. Tucker, Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, George McLaurin, and Clara Luper. Using primary and secondary... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: March 13th, 2023
The Civil Rights Movement
In this lesson, students will be asked to determine what a siren is. Students will read an excerpt from "The Odyssey" and other texts and watch selected videos. They will examine the various texts and videos from different perspectives to draw conclusions about the mythical siren. Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: August 10th, 2023
Is It a Bird or Is It a Fish?
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
In this lesson, students will examine the facts associated with evolution, infer what fossilized remains can inform us about an organism, explore how evolution is influenced by an ever-changing environment, and construct a timeline of an organism change resulting from environmental factors or human... Read more »
Created by: Brittany Bowens
Date Updated: August 5th, 2024
Biology
This lesson is intended to support life science standards found in biology. The lesson is not intended to cover the standards completely, but rather to supplement them and raise awareness of ethical issues and racism in science and medicine. Read more »
Created by: Alonna Smith
Date Updated: March 11th, 2024
Ethics in Scientific Research
In this lesson, students will work in groups to annotate and summarize texts about plagiarism and its effect on learning. They will reflect on what they know about plagiarizing and how to avoid it in their writing. By teaching one another through group and class discussions, students will better understand... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: November 6th, 2024
Avoiding Plagiarism
This lesson will take learners through the discovery of various word parts. Throughout the lesson students will be able to connect parts of a word they are familiar with to help understand unknown vocabulary through context clues. Read more »
Created by: Chrissy Waldhoer
Date Updated: May 5th, 2023
Affixes and root words
In this lesson, students explore the changes that happen from night to night in the sky, especially the Moon's changing appearance. Students learn that as the Moon orbits the Earth, the Moon appears to change shape, which is a predictable pattern. In this lesson, students use a Moon card sort, view... Read more »
Created by: Brenda Rivera
Date Updated: May 31st, 2023
Eight Phases of the Moon
This lesson will introduce students to the impact of the Cold War within the United States. This lesson is meant to be taught after the WWII content was introduced to students and can be used in tandem with multiple cross-curricular lessons in LEARN. Using hands-on activities, discussions, and research,... Read more »
Created by: Kim Press
Date Updated: May 22nd, 2023
Effects of the Cold War
This informative writing lesson explores what informative writing is, how it differs from other modes of writing, and how to apply that new knowledge. This lesson is perfect for introducing informative writing, assessing what students have learned about informative writing during instruction, and... Read more »
Created by: Lisa Loughlin
Date Updated: July 10th, 2024
Informative Writing
In this fourth and final lesson of "The K20 Chronicle" journalism unit, students will have an opportunity to peer review/edit a classmate's article, learn about magazine/newspaper layouts, preview examples and non-examples of proper layouts, hear from two graphic artists on how they came to be in the... Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: August 10th, 2023
Putting It All Together: Layout and Final Product
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 listen and engage with a fiction and nonfiction story about nocturnal animals. They then learn to put their ideas and facts into a graphic organizer, which they use to help them write a 3-5 sentence fact story about nocturnal animals. Read more »
Created by: Cheryl Arnall
Date Updated: January 10th, 2023
Informative Writing About Nocturnal Animals
In this visual arts lesson, students will look at examples of photo touch-ups, restoration, and mash-ups. They will practice by attempting to make a mash-up with provided practice images. As a class, students will discuss what they tried to do with the software to make it work, share any tricks learned,... Read more »
Created by: Shayna Pond
Date Updated: May 30th, 2023
Digital Image Editing, Collage Art, and Fair Use
In this lesson, students will learn the basic formatting guidelines needed to follow for writing a script. They will also listen to a film professor talk about careers in television and movies. This is also adaptable for ELA using books that are commonly assigned. Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
Date Updated: January 11th, 2024
Screenwriting and other careers in the film industry
In this lesson, students explore a variety of examples of how science is conducted in the world outside of the classroom. Examples come from a variety of Twitter trends where scientists share their mistakes, unexpected mishaps, and use of non-standard equipment in the course of their research. Additionally,... Read more »
Created by: Heather Shaffery
Date Updated: January 19th, 2024
The Nature of Science
In this lesson, students explore how data travels through the internet, define packages and protocols, and understand the best protocol for the type of data. Students put together puzzles to replicate how information is put into packets, watch an informational video on how networks work, compare two... Read more »
Created by: Laura Young
Date Updated: February 2nd, 2024
Understanding Data Transfer Protocols
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 learn to analyze relationships in bivariate data by exploring scatter plots and calculating the correlation coefficient. Prerequisite knowledge for this lesson includes z-scores using summation notation (sigma), mean (x bar), and standard deviation. Students build their understanding... Read more »
Created by: Lydia Baker
Date Updated: September 25th, 2024
Correlation Coefficient
This lesson is designed to help students use an excerpt from “In Praise of Bats” to identify the author’s purpose by analyzing word choice and figurative language use. By examining an author’s purpose and the mood of a text, students will be able to better identify with texts on a deeper level. Read more »
Created by: Polly Base
Date Updated: November 12th, 2024
Identifying an Author's Purpose and Intended Response
The K20 Center’s GEAR UP program wants to help you explore career options! This Career Cluster activity will help you think about your skills, personality, and interests to identify which clusters might be a good fit for you when it comes to a career using drones. While your interests will likely change... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: November 23rd, 2022
College2Career Forums (C2CF), a series of focused, career-specific explorations, have been planned for the top requested careers. In these day-long experiences, students will travel to a PSI (Post Secondary Institution) to explore a common aspect of the career through hands-on activities. Armed with... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: August 22nd, 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: July 15th, 2022
Students taking AP or Concurrent Enrollment courses will be able to benefit from actively thinking about how they study for these college-level courses compared to their other courses. Students who know how to approach their college courses differently will be better prepared to succeed with these study... Read more »
Created by: Sherry Franklin
Date Updated: June 25th, 2024
This 7th grade campus visit companion activity complements a college campus tour for students. To learn about different facets of college life, students will participate in a learning activity to familiarize themselves with college degrees and other postsecondary education (PSE) options for various... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 12th, 2024
In this lesson, students will explore the history and societal impact of fraternities and sororities. Students will explore new vocabulary and read about the history behind multicultural Greek organizations. They will then watch interviews with members of Greek organizations who share their personal... Read more »
Created by: Mariana DeLoera
Date Updated: October 22nd, 2024
The College2Career Forum: Build My Future focuses on career exploration in the architecture and construction career clusters. Held at a pavilion at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds, students will engage with over 100 exhibitors ranging from Post-Secondary Education institutions to local businesses. They... Read more »
Created by: Will Markham
Date Updated: September 27th, 2024
Families will gain an understanding of how postsecondary opportunities increase career choices and lifetime earnings. Students and their families will investigate two career choices and discover the benefits and challenges of each. Families will identify resources and information for the potential funding... Read more »
Created by: Jane Reynolds
Date Updated: December 13th, 2022
This activity is designed to introduce the parents and caregivers of GEAR UP cohort students to the definition and benefits of postsecondary education and provide them with a brief overview of GEAR UP for LIFE services. Read more »
Created by: Nicole Harris
Date Updated: August 20th, 2024
