Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
This professional development is designed to promote a college-going culture (life post-secondary school). College culture is typically thought of as a four-year university, but the term actually also entails other options after high school. As educators, we must prepare our students to think of their... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: August 14th, 2023
Participants will gain an understanding of creating a college-going culture. Participants are asked to: a) analyze the significance of a college-going culture, b) assess the current college-going culture at their school site, and c) create a list of strategies that signal a college-going culture. Through... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: August 21st, 2023
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 session focuses on insights and strategies for creating a college- and career-going culture in schools. Participants will be asked to: (1) analyze the significance of a college- and career-going culture, (2) assess the current college- and career-going culture at their... Read more »
Created by: Lacy Pennington
Date Updated: December 15th, 2023
The "Reading Realities: Using E-Readers to Engage and Support Students' Critical Reading Skills" professional development focuses on using Kindle e-readers and Google Expeditions to support student reading engagement. Research suggests that students are more eager to read when using an e-reader or mobile... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: July 5th, 2024
This activity will dive deep into encouraging inquiry and implementing inquiry-focused instructional strategies in the classroom. Participants will be actively engaged in a variety of strategies as facilitators model the implementation of these strategies. Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: March 8th, 2024
Participants will experience a workshop session that provides the fundamentals of Essential Questions. They will then discover how they can use Essential Questions as a focus when lesson planning by creating their own content-specific Essential Questions. Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Williams
Date Updated: June 4th, 2024
This activity aims to prepare faculty to design effective, technology-integrated project-based learning (PBL) experiences that leverage the opportunities afforded by a robust Makerspace or STEM lab. It is based on the "Design a Project" Project-Based Learning PD, which introduces participants to the... Read more »
Created by: Christina Naruszewicz
Date Updated: March 8th, 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
This session is designed to engage teachers in using researched-based strategies to explore ACT data and identify specific skills that can be implemented in daily instruction. The goal of this session is to raise ACT scores by targeting skills within a composite score range provided by available ACT... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: September 19th, 2022
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
Students explore the top 10 benefits of continuing their education after high school through an interactive overview. Students are given a brief introduction into the seven year GEAR UP grant and take a class photo. Students also participate in student stations that include: a note to their future... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: April 5th, 2024
This activity is a classroom version of the GEAR UP Student Kickoff assembly which can be found on this site at: Gear UP Student Kickoff-Assembly Version. The link can be found below. School sites participating in the GEAR UP grant can choose how they share the grant information to students. Both... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: January 23rd, 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
In this session, students will learn the importance of the FAFSA and important information about filling out the FAFSA. Students will brainstorm ways to pay for college. Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: February 8th, 2024
This resource gives students real-world content knowledge and information needed to be successful when navigating the interview process. These activities will prepare students to make a good first impression and to answer interview questions, regardless of the desired goal (applying for a job or trying... Read more »
Created by: Will Markham
Date Updated: April 25th, 2024
Students explore the top 10 benefits of continuing their education after high school through an interactive overview. Students are given a brief introduction into the 7-year GEAR UP grant, learning about the benefits of postsecondary education, writing letters to their future selves, signing a GEAR... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: April 5th, 2024
The College2Career Forum: University of Central Oklahoma Forensic Science Institute (FSI) focuses on career exploration in a variety of areas in the forensic science field while visiting a Post-Secondary Institution (PSI) campus. Students will explore the UCO (University of Central Oklahoma) Forensic... Read more »
Created by: Will Markham
Date Updated: August 1st, 2024
The College2Career Forum: OSU-OKC Fire Protection and Police Science programs focus on career exploration in firefighting and criminal justice while visiting a Post Secondary Institution (PSI) campus. Students will visit the respective program locations on the OSU-OKC campus to hear from professionals... Read more »
Created by: Will Markham
Date Updated: August 23rd, 2024
The College2Career Forum: OSU-OKC Veterinary Technology program focuses on career exploration in health science and veterinary technology while visiting a Post Secondary Institution (PSI) campus. Students will tour the Vet Tech building on OSU-OKC’s campus, visit labs and classrooms, hear from instructors... Read more »
Created by: Will Markham
Date Updated: August 23rd, 2024
The College2Career Forum: Rose State College (RSC) Cyber Security program focuses on career exploration in cyber security and information technology while visiting a Post-Secondary Institution (PSI) campus. Students will visit the respective program locations on the RSC campus to hear from professionals... Read more »
Created by: Will Markham
Date Updated: September 30th, 2024
The College2Career Forum: National Weather Center (NWC) focuses on career exploration in STEM fields related to meteorology while visiting a Post Secondary Institution (PSI) campus and a federal institution. Students will explore the OU College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences and NWC federal... Read more »
Created by: Jacob Kniffen
Date Updated: August 23rd, 2024
The College2Career Forum: University of Central Oklahoma’s Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM@UCO) focuses on career exploration in music production, marketing, and performance while visiting a Post Secondary Institution (PSI) campus. Students will tour ACM@UCO’s facilities, visit recording studios... Read more »
Created by: Will Markham
Date Updated: September 5th, 2024
The College2Career Forum: SoonerVision focuses on career exploration in digital and print media, communications, and technology while visiting a PSI (Post Secondary Institution) campus. Students will tour both the SoonerVision production facilities and Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication.... Read more »
Created by: Will Markham
Date Updated: September 5th, 2024
The College2Career Forum: The University of Oklahoma College of Law (OU Law) educator resource focuses on career exploration in law and criminal justice. While visiting this PSI (Post Secondary Institution) campus, students will tour OU Law’s facilities, hear career talks from lawyers and college professors,... Read more »
Created by: Will Markham
Date Updated: September 5th, 2024
The College2Career Forum: Prairie Surf Studio focuses on career exploration in digital media, communications and technology while visiting a PSE (Postsecondary Environment) campus. Students will tour the Prairie Surf Studio production facilities, hear from film industry professionals, and engage in... Read more »
Created by: Will Markham
Date Updated: September 5th, 2024
The College2Career Forum: OU College of Architecture and Construction focuses on career exploration in Architecture, Construction, and STEM career clusters while visiting a Post Secondary Institution (PSI) campus. Students will explore the OU College of Architecture and Construction to connect career... Read more »
Created by: Jacob Kniffen
Date Updated: October 22nd, 2024
The College2Career Forum: Museum of Osteology focuses on career exploration in a variety of areas of the Health Sciences, Human Services, and STEM career clusters while visiting a museum workplace. Students will explore the Museum of Osteology through scavenger hunts and guided tours, as well as hear... Read more »
Created by: Mitch Davis
Date Updated: October 22nd, 2024
The OU College of Social Work College2Career Forum explores different career pathways and education available to students in the Human Services career cluster. Participants will explore OU’s College of Social Work and speak with professors, professionals, and current students about the field. Additionally,... Read more »
Created by: Will Markham
Date Updated: October 31st, 2024
The College2Career Forum: OSU Nursing focuses on career exploration in the Health Science fields related to Nursing while visiting a Post Secondary Institution (PSI) campus. Students will connect career information with current academic learning while discussing plans for post-secondary opportunities.... Read more »
Created by: Will Markham
Date Updated: October 31st, 2024
Students will explore soil chemistry, vegetable growth needs, environmental impact, and soil health through project based learning by creating a school garden proposal. Acknowledgement: Funding provided by USDA to Project No. 2012-02355 through the National Institute for Food and Agriculture's Agriculture... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 16th, 2022
Chemistry & Soil Health
Students will analyze President Lyndon B. Johnson's speech on voting rights. Students will also do a quick write regarding the current condition of voting rights in the United States using content from the speech and current events to substantiate their claims. Read more »
Created by: Milton Bowens
Date Updated: September 20th, 2022
Voting Rights
Banned Books, Censorship Part 2
This lesson is designed to take place following completion of another K20 lesson, "Trigger Warnings." Through collaboration, reading, and research, students will continue the study of a controversial work of literature by examining various perspectives on book banning. Students will establish their... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 10th, 2023
Banned Books, Censorship Part 2
Students will discuss global cultural, political, and economic issues/challenges facing today's society. Students will work independently and in groups, utilizing discussion, text, handouts, and video, to identify the pros and cons of globalization. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 19th, 2024
Globalization
Students will understand the various forms of bankruptcy, how bankruptcy can occur, and alternatives to bankruptcy. This lesson includes optional modifications for distance learning. Resources for use in Google Classroom are included. Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: September 10th, 2024
Standard 13: Bankruptcy
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
By analyzing a variety of resources, students consider how style, format, and genre affect meaning and effectiveness. Students then craft an argument in a genre of their choice and present it to their classmates. While this lesson is aligned to 9th-grade standards, it would be appropriate to teach in... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 21st, 2024
Style, Format, and Genre
This lesson focuses on the reasons for the Great Migration, in which African-Americans left the South during the early 1900s. Students will analyze push and pull factors that led to the Great Migration, observe and summarize a painting series about the Great Migration, and listen to an author discuss... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: July 26th, 2022
The Great Migration
This lesson introduces the importance of argument in everyday life. Students will identify arguments in order to build an initial understanding of claims, evidence, and reasoning, and the rhetorical situation: author’s purpose, audience, and context. While this lesson is currently aligned only to 11th-grade... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 23rd, 2024
Introduction to Argument
Students will apply the idea of generational change to the living world and to the inventive/technological world. Students need to have prior knowledge of the concept of speciation and factors that influence speciation. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 16th, 2022
Evolution: Cladogram
Students will be introduced to dimensional analysis by analyzing a veterinary lab result, focusing mainly on the metric dimensions of a tumor. Students use prior understanding of units to match a set of metric data to the English equivalents. Students will then determine the conversion factor that is... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 4th, 2024
Intro to Dimensional Analysis
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
This lesson will provide students with a personal understanding of Stevie Smith's poem, "Not Waving but Drowning." Students will practice inferencing and analytical skills during this lesson. Students will be assessed by utilizing a graphic organizer and a writing prompt encouraging a personal relationship... Read more »
Created by: Keristy Nieto
Date Updated: September 24th, 2024
Interpreting Poetry
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
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
Students will define function, domain, and range and apply these concepts to a variety of relations. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 8th, 2022
Introduction to Functions
Students will create three-dimensional representations of volumes with known cross sections in order to better understand what the solids look like and to better calculate volume. Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: June 22nd, 2023
Volumes With Known Cross Sections
In this lesson, students explore the essential questions "Who am I?" and "What makes me, me?" through multimodal narrative writing. For this creative composition, students engage in preliminary reflective writing and in an up-close look at their thumbprints. Throughout this creative writing process,... Read more »
Created by: Jane Baber
Date Updated: August 22nd, 2024
Thumbprint Autobiography
Students will identify common lab mistakes via simulated lab stations. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 22nd, 2023
Lab Safety
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
In this lesson, students will identify aspects of their own cultural identity and how they contribute to cultural diversity within society. Students use their knowledge of geographical concepts including acculturation, assimilation, and cultural diffusion to determine how culture impacts human life.... Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: October 17th, 2024
Cultural Diversity
Elements of an Essay
In this lesson, students will engage in multiple independent and group strategies to both identify and analyze essential structural elements of an essay. By doing this, students will both practice and gain a clearer perspective of how to write with greater clarity and effectiveness. Read more »
Created by: Jane Baber
Date Updated: August 10th, 2023
In this lesson, students explore energy conservation based on how energy from the sun is captured and used to make chemical energy. Students also review how solar energy and the concept of photosynthesis have been used to engineer technology that could be beneficial to humans. This lesson can be used... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 19th, 2024
Photosynthesis
This lesson should be taught as a culminating project after the novel "The Great Gatsby" has been read completely. In this lesson, students will explore the essential question "What can one's observations about a person reveal about their character?" to create a multimodal composition that explores... Read more »
Created by: Jane Baber
Date Updated: August 10th, 2023
The Great Gatsby and the Sense of Sight
Students will use a graphing tool to analyze basic transformations on linear, absolute value, and quadratic parent graphs in order to create general rules about function transformations. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: April 3rd, 2024
Function Transformations
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
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
Students will evaluate two key Supreme Court cases to create a definition of judicial activism and judicial restraint. Students will then use their definitions to analyze other Supreme Court cases to determine if they are judicial activism or judicial restraint. Read more »
Created by: Kristen Sublett
Date Updated: June 22nd, 2023
Judicial Activism vs. Judicial Restraint
Students will be able to identify geographical features and the political, economic, and cultural functions of a favorite city or town through research. Students will acquire information from their peers about similar features and functions of cities and towns through student presentations. Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: April 17th, 2023
Characteristics of Location
Every story has at least two sides. While students may accept this idea in everyday life, they do not often explore this idea in literature. In this lesson, students will examine point of view in a familiar children's story from an author or narrator's perspective. Students will also examine other characters'... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: October 9th, 2024
Point of View
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
Using Sketchnotes to Analyze Mood and the Components of Author’s Style
In this lesson, students use sketching to help them analyze the mood and elements of the author's style of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: October 17th, 2024
Using Sketchnotes to Analyze Mood and the Components of Author’s Style
Banned Books, Censorship Part 1
Through conversation and close reading, students will begin the study of a controversial work of literature by examining the pros and cons of trigger warnings in our society. Students will choose two published opinion pieces (one from both sides of the free-speech debate) and deconstruct the arguments... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 10th, 2023
Banned Books, Censorship Part 1
Students will explore specific angle pair relationships that are created between a set of parallel lines and a transversal. After an understanding of the angle pairs is developed, students will then create a city map that demonstrates their ability to apply these angle pairs. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 17th, 2023
Parallel Lines Cut by a Transversal
Students will build a general understanding of why people choose to move and settle where they do. They will draw on specific, real-world examples of urban explosion in India to identify motivation for movement and analyze the existence and influence of push and pull factors. Read more »
Created by: Clayton Canon
Date Updated: May 27th, 2022
push/pull factors
Whether they realize it or not, many students love poetry and use it every day. Introducing poetry in a relevant way can positively engage students in the composition of poetry. In this lesson, students will explore song lyrics as they engage in the analysis and creation of poetry. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 13th, 2024
Poetry and Poetic Devices
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
Through collaborative research, students will locate, evaluate, and create effective, engaging hooks for a variety of texts. Students will also write a personal narrative and share their openings with fellow classmates. While this lesson is currently aligned only to 9th grade standards, it would be... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 8th, 2024
Writing Personal Narratives
Comparing Congruent and Similar Triangles
Students will develop definitions of congruent and similar figures and use the definitions to find the missing sides and/or angles of congruent triangles. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 10th, 2022
Comparing Congruent and Similar Triangles
Students determine the triangle congruence theorems. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 10th, 2022
Triangle Congruence Theorems
This multiple-day collaborative group lesson uses dice to explore probability of simple events similar to those in the book "Jumanji" by Chris Van Allsburg. Students will examine sample space, theoretical probability, and experimental probability and make predictions using outcomes of probability. (NOTE:... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: May 31st, 2022
Probability
This lesson continues to develop an understanding of fractions and builds a foundation for understanding the addition of fractions. Students engage in thoughtful mathematical conversations and use manipulatives to prove their thinking. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: April 22nd, 2021
Fractions
Students will be given a fantasy fiction scenario in which they must resettle a country or region of the world that is safe from zombies. Students will determine what parts of the previous culture of the region they wish to preserve and continue and which parts they will change and adapt. Students will... Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: August 5th, 2024
Understanding Culture
Students will use manipulatives to solve algebraic equations. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 29th, 2020
Algebraic equations
This lesson engages students in the concept of rounding numbers. Students participate in a hands-on exploration that allows them to visualize and master the concept. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: May 31st, 2023
Rounding Numbers
The Great Gatsby and the Sense of Sound
This lesson is to be taught after reading Chapter 6 where Gatsby throws another one of his famous parties, this time with Daisy in attendance. In this lesson, students will explore the essential question "How can music help establish mood and tone?" to create a playlist that explores the sense of sound... Read more »
Created by: Jane Baber
Date Updated: August 7th, 2024
The Great Gatsby and the Sense of Sound
In this lesson, students will distinguish between indicative, imperative, and interrogative sentences. Students will act out different types of sentences and write their own sentences in indicative, imperative, and interrogative mood. While this lesson is currently aligned only to 8th grade standards,... Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: June 22nd, 2023
Indicative, Imperative, Interrogative Mood
Students will explore the flow of energy among living organisms by constructing a food web consisting of the organisms that inhabit a salt marsh. This lesson includes optional modifications for distance learning. Resources for use in Google Classroom are included. Read more »
Created by: Morgan Myers
Date Updated: April 6th, 2023
Food Webs
In this lesson, students will explore how the sense of taste functions in The Great Gatsby by composing recipes that make connections between culinary creations and character. Read more »
Created by: Jane Baber
Date Updated: July 12th, 2023
The Great Gatsby and the Sense of Taste
In this lesson, students will compose haiku inspired by an analysis of the connection between smell and memory in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby." Read more »
Created by: Jane Baber
Date Updated: February 22nd, 2024
The Great Gatsby and the Sense of Smell
Interdependence of Science, Engineering, and Technology on Society and the Natural World
In this lesson on the interdependence of science, engineering, and technology, students will use the example of snake venom to explore how natural resources can be used to make synthetic products that humans rely on. Students will learn and practice research strategies and evaluate sources. Finally,... Read more »
Created by: Teresa Randall
Date Updated: July 31st, 2024
Interdependence of Science, Engineering, and Technology on Society and the Natural World
Students will explore the connections between what they know about linear relationships and extend that understanding to arithmetic sequences. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: February 4th, 2024
Functions: Arithmetic Sequences
Students will take measurements of themselves and then use what they know about proportions to find out if they are proportional to a doll, action figure, or other "toy" human model. To learn more about proportions and dimensions, students will then create an accurate model or visual of their "toy self.”... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 9th, 2022
Proportional Reasoning
Students will explore the rotation of a Ferris wheel and make conjectures about the function represented by the motion. Students will find and plot points in the motion and use technology to find the line of best fit. Students will also manipulate the equation for their function to discover what the... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: July 25th, 2022
Relationship Between the Unit Circle and the Sine Curve
Students will explore the properties of a cube and make connections to exponents through a short exploration of volume. Students will also construction and defend a mathematical argument. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 7th, 2023
Geometry, Volume, & Exponents
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
To activate prior knowledge and introduce two tales from "The Canterbury Tales," students complete an Anticipation Guide before discussing theme statements from the tales. Then, students work collaboratively to read the tales and compile two-column notes during reading. Students revisit their Anticipation... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 19th, 2024
Themes in Literature
There's more than enough information at our students' fingertips, but how do they determine if that information is credible? In order to determine the credibility of a source, students first examine the credibility of individuals and then investigate their own authority and expertise on a particular... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 10th, 2023
Evaluating Sources
Students continue to work with data collected in "Trashketball: Part 1" (or the example data provided) to write inequalities to describe possible future outcomes. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 17th, 2022
Linear Inequalities
Part of any adolescent's life is determining one's identity. In this lesson, students will initially consider who they are as people—what makes up their identities. Then, they will work through several readings, including a poem and two short stories, with a focus on the role characterization and character... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 23rd, 2024
Characterization / Character Traits
In this lesson, students will estimate population data leading them to discover the midpoint formula. They will then apply the formula they created to various other real-world applications. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: October 2nd, 2023
Discovering Midpoint Formula Through Estimations
Students model population growth across continents to discover the difference between linear and exponential models. Students should already be familiar with both linear and exponential functions and equations. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 22nd, 2023
Linear vs. Exponential Growth
Students construct a definition of "percent" and learn how to calculate percentages. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 4th, 2022
Defining and Calculating with Percents
In this lesson, students will learn how to use a clinometer and trigonometric ratios to solve problems involving right triangles. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 17th, 2023
Using Clinometers and Trig Ratios to Measure Unknown Heights
This lesson focuses on applying Newton's third law of motion and on finding solutions to problems associated with collision. By the end of the lesson, students will be able to examine and explain evidence to support Newton's third law of motion, identify a real-world problem involving a transfer of... Read more »
Created by: Alonna Smith
Date Updated: September 16th, 2024
Forces and Motion
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
In this lesson about the journalism writing process and the role of a copy editor, students will explore the importance of grammar and style. Students will work in groups to identify the key elements of a news story through a Card Sort. Then, students will work independently to practice editing a paragraph... Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: September 26th, 2024
Copy Editing and the Writing Process
In this lesson, students explore the essential question, "How do mood and tone contribute to the reader's experience of a piece of literature?" through reading and analyzing the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce. Read more »
Created by: Jane Baber
Date Updated: June 21st, 2023
Mood and Tone
Students develop questions about the phenomenon of wolf reintroduction into Yellowstone National Park. They explore published data to explain how different organisms interact to change the entire park ecosystem. Using this data, students take the role of a community member to engage in a role-play and... Read more »
Created by: Heather Shaffery
Date Updated: February 27th, 2024
Ecosystem Interactions
Using Wendy Ewald's book of children's photography and poetry as a mentor text, students will compose descriptive poems based on photographs that they take of their favorite personal feature. Read more »
Created by: Jane Baber
Date Updated: March 11th, 2024
Photography and Descriptive Poetry
This short, introductory lesson is a great way to begin the year in any history class from 8th-12th grade. Each student will create their own definition of history then compare it to quotes about history and the term's dictionary definition. Students then will reexamine their own definitions, modify... Read more »
Created by: Kristen Sublett
Date Updated: September 3rd, 2024
Intro to History
In this lesson, students explore concepts of perimeter, area, surface area, and volume while engaging in hands-on construction of origami boxes. Students collaborate to discover the formulas for volume and surface area. Then students listen to a civil engineer and learn how he uses volume and surface... Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: June 7th, 2023
Surface Area and Volume of Rectangular Prisms
In this lesson, students will use questions, a book, and their favorite foods to explore multi-digit division with tools and strategies they already know. Students will also practice making conjectures (or reasonable estimated solutions). After students find a solution to the main problem, the teacher... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: February 20th, 2024
Partial Quotients
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 use a fun problem to discover and practice the partial quotients process for multiple-digit division. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: April 22nd, 2021
Partial Quotients Division Method
The Benefits of Earning a Post-Secondary Degree
This lesson is a classroom version of the GEAR UP Student Kickoff assembly which can be found on this site at: Gear UP Student Kickoff-Assembly Version. The link can be found below. School sites participating in the GEAR UP grant can choose how they share the grant information to students. Both... Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: January 11th, 2024
The Benefits of Earning a Post-Secondary Degree
This lesson is the first in a series of lessons, Wave Inventions, related to light and sound waves and inventors. In this lesson, using household objects, students will plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials produce sound. The lesson will culminate with students... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 30th, 2020
Sound
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 final lesson of the Wave Inventions series, students design a communication tool using concepts they learned in the light and sound lessons. They also explore various inventors and their inventions. Students also discuss the characteristics that make good inventors, including being problem solvers... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 17th, 2020
Light, Sound, Inventors
Author's Purpose
Using the tale of The Three Little Pigs and associated nonfiction pieces, students try their hand at text analysis with a special focus on author’s purpose. Through examining a variety of texts, students practice determining author’s purpose. At the conclusion of this lesson, students demonstrate their... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 30th, 2020
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
This lesson begins with a discussion of how authors tell great stories. Students will hear two stories about dogs, one told from the first person and the other from the third person point of view. Students will use a Card Sort activity to discover how to tell the difference in point of view and will... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 4th, 2021
Point of View
This lesson uses fiction and nonfiction books to have students think about the author’s purpose for writing the piece. The goal is to help students understand that nonfiction works have common elements with the purpose to inform, while fiction stories have common elements with the purpose to entertain.... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: May 31st, 2023
Author's Purpose: Informing or Entertaining
In this lesson, students will use fraction strips to develop a definition of numerator and denominator and discover how we describe the numbers between zero and one or part of a whole. They will then extend their understanding of fractions by investigating how to describe part of a set using a sample... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 14th, 2020
Fractions
Students will use protractors to discover, identify, and define angles and lines. Using vocabulary developed through this activity, students will identify different types of quadrilaterals. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 14th, 2020
Angles and Quadrilaterals
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
In this lesson, students play the role of a nosy detective, digging through a mysterious neighbor's garbage to make observations and inferences in order to solve a case. Using images and "artifacts," students create a character profile to show how their observations and inferences help them come to... Read more »
Created by: Jane Baber
Date Updated: June 22nd, 2023
Observations and Inferences
Computer programming helps young learners to understand how to think things through step-by-step, solve problems, and make adjustments based on feedback. There are many great resources now for both online and offline coding and using algorithms to solve problems for learners of all ages. These lessons... Read more »
Created by: Teresa Lansford
Date Updated: February 17th, 2022
Programming and Algorithms
Sometimes, students have an aversion to writing because they lack a sense of purpose. In this lesson, students learn that letters can be an important way to communicate and can be fun to write. First, students brainstorm what they already know about letters and then explore letters written by a variety... Read more »
Created by: Makala Foley
Date Updated: September 10th, 2024
Writing Letters
In this lesson, students will use primary and secondary sources to learn about history. Students will compare and contrast how primary and secondary sources can offer different views and perceptions of events. Students will demonstrate understanding by creating their own primary and secondary sources. Read more »
Created by: Patricia Turner
Date Updated: September 11th, 2024
Comparing Primary and Secondary Sources
This lesson focuses on an extension of parallel lines by exploring what happens when a transversal line passes through them. The goal is for students to understand the different angles that form due to the intersection and to apply that knowledge to real-world situations. Students will be able to identify... Read more »
Created by: Brittany VanCleave
Date Updated: August 17th, 2023
Parallel Lines, Transversal Lines, and Angles
Students analyze primary source documents to understand the motives of colonists who supported, opposed, or remained neutral before the American Revolution. They apply this understanding to open-ended scenarios and write from the perspective of a loyalist, patriot, or neutralist. Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: November 11th, 2024
American Revolution
This lesson focuses on the properties of real numbers, properties of equality, and inverse operations to help students solve linear equations. The goal is for students to understand the fundamentals of isolating a variable. Students will then be able to solve two-step equations by applying properties... Read more »
Created by: Matthew McDonald
Date Updated: May 18th, 2023
Solving Two-Step Equations
This lesson focuses on the properties of real numbers, properties of equality, and inverse operations to help students solve linear equations on a deeper level. The goal is for students to understand the fundamentals of isolating a variable and to apply that knowledge to more complex problems. Students... Read more »
Created by: Brittany VanCleave
Date Updated: September 22nd, 2022
Solving Multi-Step Equations
In this lesson, students will use proportions and percentages to discover what classrooms around the world are like. Read more »
Created by: Amber Stokes
Date Updated: May 18th, 2023
Proportions and Percents
In this lesson, students will engage in a hands-on learning activity centered around a geometric construct called a hexomino. Similar to the more familiar domino (with two squares fused together on a side), a hexomino consists of six squares fused together. Students will (1) use spatial reasoning skills... Read more »
Created by: Amber Stokes
Date Updated: June 17th, 2022
Area, Perimeter, Spatial Reasoning, and Patterns
Students will read and analyze the short story "The Interlopers." They will determine multiple themes throughout the story, compare character motivation, and evaluate the effects of setting on the story. Using a similar format, students will research a popular “feud” in contemporary culture or history... Read more »
Created by: Polly Base
Date Updated: September 10th, 2024
Conflict, Motivation, and Setting
Sometimes, we know a great deal about the meaning and inspiration behind a work of art. In many cases, the artist has left information about their art in an artist's statement. Sometimes though, it is up to the viewer to construct their own meaning of a work of art, regardless of what information about... Read more »
Created by: Jane Baber
Date Updated: August 9th, 2024
Ekphrastic Poetry
This interactive inquiry-based lesson focuses on how our mindset impacts how we engage and approach different situations throughout life. Students will reflect on their own mindset and current beliefs that affect growth and fixed mindset. Students will develop a plan to foster a growth mindset. Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: November 22nd, 2022
Growth Mindset
What motivated and inspired legendary folk musician Woody Guthrie to create and perform music? Students explore this question throughout the lesson by engaging in a Gallery Walk analysis of Guthrie photos and quotes and then using his lyrics to determine the political and social issues that Guthrie... Read more »
Created by: Sarah Brewer
Date Updated: April 18th, 2023
Contributions of Influential Oklahomans
Students love learning about animals. In this lesson, students will use research and data to study farm animals. Students will explore farm animals at various learning stations and use the information they gathered to compose a class book about farm animals. Included is an optional STEAM activity where... Read more »
Created by: Katie Miller
Date Updated: August 30th, 2023
What Do Animals on the Farm Need to Survive?
In this lesson, students go on a hat hunt, enjoy a story, and play with words. Students are introduced to a variety of hats and headgear and their purposes. A parent guide for doing the lesson at home accompanies this lesson. Read more »
Created by: Patricia Turner
Date Updated: April 22nd, 2021
Reading, Playing with Words, and Gathering Information
In this lesson, students learn about the way trade affects the spread of religion by studying the contributions of Mansa Musa to the culture of West Africa. Students examine the empire that Mansa Musa led by viewing images related to Mansa Musa’s contributions, viewing a video, and reading an article... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: September 10th, 2024
Trade and Religion in West Africa
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 will explore how communities of living things are connected within an ocean ecosystem. They will create an ocean food web and learn how even small changes can impact an entire ecosystem. Read more »
Created by: Elizabeth Rader
Date Updated: August 13th, 2021
Investigating Interconnectedness in Ocean Ecosystems
In this lesson, students will use their existing knowledge to find the area and perimeter of triangles, rectangles, and trapezoids to discover how to find the area of a regular polygon and apply their knowledge to real-world scenarios. Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: April 3rd, 2024
Area and Perimeter of Regular Polygons
In this lesson, students learn about primary sources by creating their own "Show and Tell Museum." They will practice reading and interpreting artifacts from their classmates' lives. They will then apply this knowledge to primary sources from Oklahoma's Early Native American tribes. Read more »
Created by: Elizabeth Rader
Date Updated: May 31st, 2023
Read and Interpret Primary Sources
This lesson introduces the Declaration of Independence in a fun and engaging way. The lesson explores the reason for the document, as well as modern day relevance. It also helps students to see how this document has guided our government, applies to equal rights, and how conflicts are handled. This... Read more »
Created by: Patricia Turner
Date Updated: March 14th, 2022
Declaration of Independence
Students will identify a need and engage with wants and needs through a brief activity. They will reflect on the difference between want and need. They will then complete a budgeting activity to understand saving versus spending. Students will recognize that having what you need is important, and be... Read more »
Created by: Brooke Lee
Date Updated: May 31st, 2023
Understanding Wants vs. Needs
In this lesson, students evaluate the foreign policies of Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, and Woodrow Wilson. Students consider the dilemmas presidents faced and learn the motivations behind their diplomatic policies. The use of diplomacy is extended to the modern era through a video of how George... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: July 24th, 2023
Foreign Relations of Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson
In this lesson, students will discover how a given side, side, and angle could result in 0, 1, or 2 triangles. They will then learn the Law of Sines and use it to find missing side lengths and angle measures. This lesson is intended to be taught before the Law of Cosines lesson and after students learn... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: April 3rd, 2024
AAS, ASA, SSA
In this lesson, students will discover how to determine if any three side lengths make a triangle through a GeoGebra activity. Then, students will formalize their knowledge of the Converse of the Pythagorean Theorem before applying their knowledge through a Card Matching activity and a real-world scenario. Read more »
Created by: Lydia Baker
Date Updated: April 10th, 2024
Converse of the Pythagorean Theorem and Inequality Theorems
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 discover the attributes of three systems of government by discussing advantages and disadvantages of each type and then sorting characteristics of each type. Students will reflect on potential issues faced by citizens living under each type of system and will summarize... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: June 6th, 2023
Unitary, Federal, and Confederal Systems of Government
Students will use their knowledge of real world scenarios to graph a situation. After graphing, the students will use prior knowledge to connect vocabulary terms to the graphs that were created before practicing their own scenario to be graphed. This lesson is intended to introduce the basics of quadratics,... Read more »
Created by: Lydia Baker
Date Updated: August 29th, 2024
Visual Approach to Parabolas
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
In this lesson, students investigate what factors affect the force of gravity and use plotted data to determine graphically how each variable is related to the force of gravity. Students review their understanding of gravity and how to linearize a set of data. Students use a gravity simulation to collect... Read more »
Created by: Kevin Warren
Date Updated: February 8th, 2024
Universal Law of Gravity
In this lesson, students will begin by analyzing two images depicting the Washita Massacre to generate hypotheses about what happened during this historical event. Next, students will read and analyze an article and complete a corresponding history frame graphic organizer. As an extension, students... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: September 25th, 2023
The Indian Wars in Indian Territory
In this lesson, students review the First Amendment and consider whether or not the separation of church and state can violate the fundamental rights of American citizens. Students then analyze images and complete a Painting a Picture activity. To extend their learning, students read a brief document... Read more »
Created by: Tanner Lusher
Date Updated: October 17th, 2023
Engel v. Vitale (1962)
Through this lesson, students will use math and equity to discover the equation solving for any circle's arc length and sector area while investigating food deserts and how they impact a community. Read more »
Created by: Lydia Baker
Date Updated: September 26th, 2023
Arc Length and Sector Area of a Circle
Through this lesson, students will utilize math and equity to discover the equation to solve for any circle's arc length and sector area while investigating food deserts and how they impact a community. Read more »
Created by: Lydia Baker
Date Updated: September 26th, 2023
Arc Length and Sector Area of a Circle
In this lesson, students first reflect on how they respond to stimuli in their environment. Next, students work to identify stimuli and responses to common scenarios. Students then summarize a reading and a video on Pavlov’s learning theory. Learning is extended by students through creating a classical... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: October 18th, 2023
Classical Conditioning Learning Theory
Texas v. Johnson
In this lesson, students first analyze a quote about free speech before discussing whether the right to free speech is important. Next, students summarize the Texas v. Johnson Supreme Court case before debating whether a constitutional amendment banning flag burning is necessary. Students reflect on... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: December 8th, 2023
Texas v. Johnson
Compare & Contrast Nursing Past and Present
In this lesson, students look through the lens of nursing to think about what it means to overcome adversity. Students will read Civil War-era memoirs from Walt Whitman and Louisa May Alcott. They will then compare and contrast the descriptions of nursing in those texts with an account of modern nursing... Read more »
Created by: Polly Base
Date Updated: September 3rd, 2024
Compare & Contrast Nursing Past and Present