Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
In this professional development session, participants will engage in embedded instructional strategies that will allow them to examine the criteria for authentic assessments. Participants also will explore connections between the “whys” and “hows” of creating and using rubrics for authentic assessment... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: July 24th, 2023
This activity models authentic, inquiry-based strategies and connects research to the benefits of student engagement. Participants will discuss the strategies they use to engage their students and then document these strategies for future faculty reference and collaboration. Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: July 24th, 2023
This professional development session focuses on the "Four C's" (Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, and Creativity) and how to integrate them into the classroom. In this interactive session, participants also will explore various iPad applications and develop a lesson or activity with... Read more »
Created by: Mandy Green
Date Updated: December 15th, 2023
The Interactive Classrooms in English/Language Arts (Short Version) 90-minute professional development focuses on exploring multiple technology applications to determine how they can be applicable for use in the English/Language Arts (ELA) classroom. Participants will explore various tech applications,... Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: December 13th, 2023
The Interactive Classrooms in Social Studies (Short Version) 90-minute professional development focuses on exploring multiple technology applications to determine how they can be applicable for use in the Social Studies classroom. Participants will explore various tech applications, choose at least... Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: December 13th, 2023
During this activity, teachers will have an opportunity to explore activities, lessons, and materials the K20 Center has developed. Using these materials, they will find ways to implement the ICAP initiative in their classrooms. They will research new career fields and create their own vision boards... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: September 29th, 2021
This Authenticity and Chromebooks professional development session focuses on the relationship of authentic instruction and technology implementation in the classroom. Participants will identify, analyze, and apply components of authenticity in lessons and activities to further their pedagogical knowledge. Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: May 30th, 2024
Forging a path of strong community in an online classroom can be a challenge. Teachers and students are separated, and maintaining a sense of community relies on some of the same practices we use in the in-person classroom. However, when coupled with uniquely designed virtual materials, authentic teaching... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: July 2nd, 2024
This professional development session applies research-based practices to support the use of educational technology (EdTech) in the classroom. Through exploring Scratch coding on a Raspberry Pi, 3D printing with TinkerCAD, and Swivl robots, participants will connect EdTech to science and engineering... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: May 30th, 2024
The Interactive Classrooms for All Contents professional development focuses on exploring multiple technology resources to determine how they can be applicable for use in the classroom. Participants will explore various resources, choose at least one to apply in the classroom, and demonstrate its integration... Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: February 28th, 2024
This professional development session focuses on instilling an understanding of the framework of authentic learning through multiple tools, such as the 5E Model and LEARN Strategies, while keeping in mind the Oklahoma Academic Standards for Mathematics. The interactive session will give participants... Read more »
Created by: Brittany VanCleave
Date Updated: June 26th, 2024
Meaningful student discussion is an important component of Authentic instruction, but many teachers find it challenging to facilitate effectively. This session explores effective approaches to planning for and facilitating student discussion, common discussion roadblocks, and strategies to support meaningful... Read more »
Created by: Heather Shaffery
Date Updated: July 13th, 2022
Now that many schools have added student devices to their schools, they are looking for other ways to integrate technology and give students enhanced authentic opportunities to apply learning. Makerspaces provide a platform for that, but many educators and administrators do not know where to start.... Read more »
Created by: Teresa Lansford
Date Updated: July 2nd, 2024
During this session, participants practice formative assessment strategies that get students moving. They walk, dance, vote, and debate their way to authentic learning experiences. Using multiple resources from the K20 LEARN website, participants leave the session with easily customized strategies that... Read more »
Created by: Jared Whaley
Date Updated: May 2nd, 2023
Districts review their previous Strategic Action Plans. They work to adjust their plan for updated student achievement data. Leaders determine action steps to keep, delete, or add for the next 3 years. Read more »
The session aims to answer the question of how technology can be effectively utilized to facilitate authentic learning experiences. It will guide teachers in generating action steps to nurture authentic learning with technology. Participants will explore the essential elements of authentic learning... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: August 28th, 2023
Leadership is the process of working collaboratively to shape a culture of interdependence and trust to foster inclusive practices and serve a shared vision which responds to change for growth and promotes learning and empowerment for all stakeholders. Read more »
Created by: Danny Mattox
Date Updated: August 6th, 2024
In this session, participants will explore the authenticity component, student-centered learning. First, participants identify characteristics of student-centered learning environments. Next, participants consider common views regarding student engagement and how it affects learning. Participants will... Read more »
Created by: Brittany Bowens
Date Updated: October 14th, 2024
Through small-group activities and discussions, students will be exposed to a variety of careers, along with their average salaries and post-secondary requirements. Students will also be asked to brainstorm possible fears or concerns that high school students have concerning college. Then, students... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: December 15th, 2023
Give students a taste of life beyond high school in this real-world "Game to Prepare for Life" based on the popular board game. Students will get a career, salary, and family to provide for. Along the way, they will encounter expenses like housing, health, cars, and insurance. They will juggle their... Read more »
Created by: Mariah Warren
Date Updated: April 21st, 2023
This lesson focuses on scaffolding the use of the Get a Life college and career simulation game in the classroom, specifically targeting career awareness in middle school students. Participants will play the game and experience classroom activities designed to process the gameplay and facilitate discussion... Read more »
Created by: Shayna Pond
Date Updated: September 19th, 2024
Through their own research and discussion, students see how career choice, postsecondary education, and salary are all interrelated. Students identify three careers that they might be interested in, identify the postsecondary requirements to attain these careers, and learn what the beginning is for... Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: September 11th, 2024
Standard 1: Earning an Income
This lesson will focus on the impacts of the Cold War era in U.S. history. Guiding this lesson is an essential question focused on the use of fear. Hands-on activities, reading of a relevant news article, and argumentative writing will assist students in their exploration of brinkmanship and mutually... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 13th, 2024
Impact of the Cold War
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 will explore angles of incline on different wheelchair ramps by researching the ADA's accessibility standards, measuring different surfaces of a ramp, and uncovering missing angles using inverse trigonometric functions. Students will have the opportunity to share their own ideas... Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: July 13th, 2022
Inverse Trigonometric Functions
This lesson encourages student writing by combining an art project with a creative writing assignment. Through guided inquiry and responses, students elicit responses that inform their creative writing piece. While this lesson is currently aligned only to ninth grade standards, it would be appropriate... Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: November 22nd, 2022
Creative Writing
This lesson provides an overview of the key events and concepts of the Vietnam War. Using hands-on activities and discussions, students are able to explore the vocabulary and multiple perspectives of the war. This lesson is meant to be taught after this era and subject have been introduced to students.... Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: June 26th, 2023
The Vietnam War
This lesson examines key terrorist attacks on U.S. soil and identifies how the Patriot Act was created to prevent terrorism. Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: June 22nd, 2023
The Patriot Act of 2001
Language, Character Motivation, and Theme
In this lesson, students will interactively explore Acts 3 and 4 of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Students will engage in various strategies, focusing on thematic elements of the play in consideration of language and character motivation. Students will engage in during-reading strategies designed... Read more »
Created by: Jane Baber
Date Updated: February 21st, 2024
Language, Character Motivation, and Theme
Students will create a definition of terrorism and articulate in a more complex way an understanding of terrorism and issues regarding terrorism. Students will create an oral presentation of terrorist events and their ideological causes. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: April 18th, 2023
Understanding Terrorism
In this lesson, students learn to effectively identify and analyze themes in both fiction and nonfiction texts. Students evaluate universal theme sets then find examples of these themes in articles and passages from literature. Finally, students demonstrate their understanding of theme statements by... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: October 24th, 2024
Theme
In this lesson, students will critically examine how literary elements contribute to the theme of a text. Students will explore universal theme sets by examining pictures and engaging in the Four Corners strategy. Students will then identify a universal theme within a text by using the Why-Lighting... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: July 6th, 2023
Picture the Theme
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
This lesson serves as an introduction to writing effective arguments. Students will engage in a Four Corners Debate, differentiate between the various elements of argument writing, and understand how to effectively argue their own claims by using supporting evidence. Students will also create a multimodal... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 14th, 2023
Argument Writing
This lesson engages students in exploring, assessing, and drawing conclusions about the validity of various media sources through exploration of the 2019 "Alienstock" phenomenon. Students will work independently and in groups to compare and analyze different media sources and evaluate the validity and... Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: October 3rd, 2024
Analyzing Information, Media, and Validity
This two-part lesson includes a variety of pre-reading activities to prepare students to actively read Shakespeare's tragedy, "Othello." Students first rely on prior knowledge as they research Shakespeare as a playwright and his writings in a K-W-L activity. Then, they consider theme statements from... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 7th, 2024
Pre-Reading Strategies
This lesson is intended to be either an introduction or a refresher of Darwinian fitness. Students think about what it means to be 'fit' and the impact humans have had on this natural mechanism. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 8th, 2022
Darwinian Fitness
In this lesson, students use a variety of manipulatives to create and compare numbers. They practice comparing number sets using phrases such as “smaller,” “more than," “less than," “equal," “the same as,” etc. Students use their understanding of comparing numbers to create and read a class graph about... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 16th, 2020
Comparing Numbers
Students will use DNA processes such as replication, transcription, and translation to study the differences between healthy individuals and those with a genetic disorder (in this case, cystic fibrosis). Students will apply this knowledge to the inheritance of traits through the use of Punnett squares. Read more »
Created by: Danny Mattox
Date Updated: October 29th, 2024
DNA Processes
In this lesson, students will move through a series of primary source documents, maps, and graphs to explore the underlying causes of World War I. After analyzing the documents, students will use a graphic organizer to connect new information to historical concepts: militarism, alliances, imperialism,... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 22nd, 2023
World War I
In this lesson, students will analyze primary and secondary sources to determine the push and pull factors that led immigrants to come to the United States by the millions in the 1880s through the 1920s and will also examine the immigrant experience upon arriving in the United States, including the... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 13th, 2022
U.S. History
In this lesson, students move through a series of primary source document sets about the culture in the 1920s to explore the tension that existed between modern and traditional values. After analyzing the documents, students engage in a guided debate on modernism and traditionalism in the 1920s. Finally,... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 7th, 2024
U.S. History: 1920s
Students use data about a weight loss competition to compare different ways of measuring change and analyze the benefits and shortcomings of each method. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 10th, 2022
Percent Change
Students will analyze the "Worcester v. Georgia" United States Supreme Court case, then work together to summarize and categorize actions that protected the sovereignty of the Cherokee Nation or undermined it. To extend knowledge, students will watch a video of a judge discussing the powers of the judicial... Read more »
Created by: Sarah Brewer
Date Updated: February 27th, 2023
Cherokee Sovereignty and Actions of the U.S. Government
In this lesson, students will learn to determine which materials are best used in various situations based on their properties. After categorizing a few common materials like cotton balls and cooking oil, students contribute their rationales to an Anchor Chart, which is then expanded to include the... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 30th, 2020
Structure And Properties of Matter
This lesson is the second in the series of lessons, Wave Inventions. In this lesson students will make observations and conduct investigations to explore how light interacts with a variety of materials. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 17th, 2020
Light
In this lesson, students use their prior knowledge to identify shapes and their attributes. "What Shape is it Anyway?" provides students with ample group discussion as well as individual assessment. The end goal of this lesson is to have students correctly identify, sort, and explain their understanding... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 4th, 2021
Shapes
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
This lesson is best taught after students have already explored how speed, velocity, and mass determine momentum in terms of Newton’s first and second laws. Here, students will take those principles and determine Newton’s third law, including what occurs when two objects act upon one another. Students... Read more »
Created by: Brittany Bowens
Date Updated: October 11th, 2024
Physical Science
This lesson focuses on comparing and contrasting fiction and nonfiction, writing a researchable inquiry question, and developing justice-based research questions. Students will familiarize themselves with the Tulsa Race Massacre and then read an excerpt from the novel "Dreamland Burning," followed by... Read more »
Created by: Polly Base
Date Updated: June 10th, 2024
Guided Inquiry Research
Students begin this lesson by brainstorming what it means to be a good citizen. Next, students analyze two documents to understand what it means to be a good citizen of a democracy, including responsibilities like participating in the democratic process, protesting injustice, and understanding how the... Read more »
Created by: Sarah Brewer
Date Updated: November 18th, 2022
Responsibilities and Rights of U.S. Citizens
In this lesson, students explore the idea of superstitions and ghost stories and how they affect people and their emotions and behaviors. Students read “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving and examine how the two main characters react to and are affected by the legend of the headless... Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: September 12th, 2024
Characters' Differing Perspectives
Students will read and interact with the short story, "The Most Dangerous Game." They will focus on making predictions, analyzing the text, and evaluating the characters—namely protagonist v. antagonist. Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: February 7th, 2024
This is the second lesson in a series called, "Survival." In an effort to understand animal characteristics and adaptations, this lesson invites students to make observations about a variety of animals, participate in a modified four corners activity, and create a class Anchor Chart. Learning is extended... Read more »
Created by: Patricia Turner
Date Updated: May 31st, 2023
Animal Adaptations
Students will investigate financial lending sources and compare their services. Students will identify similarities and differences among the different sources through a mind-mapping strategy and evaluate which financial source offers the best opportunities for lending. Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: June 28th, 2023
Standard 3: Banking and Financial Services
This lesson explores the crisis response to the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, in Oklahoma City and the development of the Oklahoma Standard. This lesson should be taught after students have learned about the bombing itself. Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: June 30th, 2022
The Oklahoma City Bombing
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
Truth is a powerful thing. Sometimes it hurts, and sometimes it is hard to deliver. In this multi-genre lesson, students will analyze and compare three texts written on the subject of honesty. Students will determine the claim a text is arguing and the evidence and reasoning that is used to support... Read more »
Created by: Shelby Blackwood
Date Updated: September 11th, 2024
Claim, Evidence, Reasoning
In this fourth lesson of the "Lord of the Flies" unit, students continue examining this question: How does the author use symbolism to develop characterization and theme? Students specifically examine human nature through readings, a Four Corners activity, and a Padlet reflection. Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: September 13th, 2024
Bad to the Bone
In this lesson, students will engage in several activities to understand Machiavelli's political writing, "The Prince." Students analyze excerpts from "The Prince," view a video about Machiavelli, participate in an activity to examine Machiavellian characteristics, and have a class debate about the... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: July 29th, 2022
The Political Thought of Machiavelli
In this lesson, students discuss and analyze the ways in which genetics and the environment play a role in human development. Students participate in a Four Corners activity, a Card Sort, and an article analysis, and then extend their learning by viewing a video about an experiment that separated triplets... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: August 17th, 2023
Nature vs. Nurture
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
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
Diamonds, Not Just a Girl's Best Friend
Students will watch an ICAP video of Plains tribe member Crystal Pewo Lightfoot who makes star quilts and start quilt based designs. They will learn the history of the quilts and the Plains tribes, examine quilts using modern principles of design, and make a design of their own. Students will share... Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
Date Updated: May 20th, 2024
Diamonds, Not Just a Girl's Best Friend
In this lesson, students examine the impact that women have had on the advancement of civil rights in the United States. In particular, they will learn the inspiring story of Fannie Lou Hamer, who endured harassment, physical abuse, and imprisonment as she fought for Black Americans’ right to vote.... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: February 5th, 2024
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
Escher's Terrific Tessellations: The Art of Tile Transformations
In this follow-up lesson to "Diamonds, Not Just a Girl's Best Friend," students explore an app that creates Escher-like drawings. Students discuss the principles of design in the drawings. Students discuss Escher and then discuss similarities of the Plains tribes art that precede Escher. Students reflect... Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
Date Updated: May 20th, 2024
Escher's Terrific Tessellations: The Art of Tile Transformations
In this lesson, students explore what a Faustian bargain is and examine examples in literature and pop culture. Students read, watch, listen, discuss, and write an argument as they work through the concept and its lasting legacy. Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: September 20th, 2023
Robert Johnson and Faustian Bargains
In this lesson, students first consider what they are motivated by, and then match descriptor cards with the four types of operant conditioning. Next, students summarize a reading and a video about Operant Conditioning before writing their own operant conditioning scenario and groups, and then sharing... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: August 23rd, 2023
Operant Conditioning Learning Theory
In this lesson, students develop computational thinking skills by role-playing as a campaign manager in political elections. Students begin by considering and discussing a set of statements related to the election process used in the United States. Next, students participate in two separate activities... Read more »
Created by: Mariana DeLoera
Date Updated: July 1st, 2024
Understanding the Electoral Process
In this session, participants will learn about the FAFSA and its benefits. The participants will understand the importance of filling out the FAFSA and take time during this session to complete the FAFSA. Read more »
Created by: Allie Bishop
Date Updated: March 12th, 2024