Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
In this professional development session, participants discover how various instructional strategies can be used as authentic tools to create and facilitate student-centered lessons with the 5E Instructional Model. Individually, participants will choose a component of the 5E Instructional Model (Engage,... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: November 10th, 2021
In this session, participants will gain a deeper understanding of meaningful bell ringers through the modeling of interdisciplinary instructional strategies. Participants are asked to a) address superficial uses of bell ringers and more meaningful uses of bell ringers, b) actively engage in authentic... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 11th, 2021
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: September 14th, 2020
Productive student conversations are a vital part of deep, flexible understanding of content. During this session, participants will increase their awareness of productive and scaffolded student conversations in the classroom or within a synchronous online learning platform, such as Summit or Odyssey. Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: January 5th, 2021
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: August 3rd, 2021
Discussions are a natural, common practice in ELA classrooms. It is a daily challenge to engage students face-to-face, but engaging students online can feel especially difficult. This presentation introduces strategies that can effectively spark ideas for both face-to-face and virtual discussions: First... Read more »
Created by: Brandy Hackett
Date Updated: March 8th, 2022
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 24th, 2022
This 120-minute professional development focuses on understanding how virtual reality, or 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 »
A Classroom Framework for Supporting Student Well-Being focuses on creating a common language for safety, connections, and coping strategies in the classroom. Participants will reflect on their teaching practices with an eye towards transforming their classrooms into safe and nurturing spaces. Read more »
Created by: Shayna Pond
Date Updated: March 12th, 2021
Participants will gain a deeper understanding of meaningful bell ringers through the modeling of interdisciplinary instructional strategies. Participants are asked to a) address superficial uses of bell ringers and more meaningful uses of bell ringers b) actively engage in authentic instructional strategies... Read more »
During this second day of the Formative Assessment Institute, participants focus on distinguishing assessment of learning, assessment for learning, and assessment as learning. Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: October 29th, 2021
Mathematics is sometimes perceived as one directional, but it doesn’t have to be. In this interactive professional development institute, participants will reflect upon what 'math' really is, how it looks and feels, and how intentional tasks can enhance overall understanding and critical thinking. Participants... Read more »
Students will explore climate variation in various environments using EOMF (Earth Observation and Modeling Facility) data, GIS (Geospatial Information Science) data, and weather and climate data. Students will use their observations and data to make predictions about future environmental change and... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: May 4th, 2023
Climate Variation
In this lesson, students will investigate how to use systems of equations to solve real-world problems. This is a great lesson to wrap up a unit on systems of equations, after students have become familiar with solving systems using any method. This lesson will connect solving systems to real-world... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 14th, 2022
Linear Systems of Equations
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: May 18th, 2023
Elements of Fiction
In this lesson, students explore the historical period of the Progressive Era through analyzing photos and gain a deeper knowledge of this era by reading primary source documents. They learn about several social reform movements and create speeches and posters in order to rally their peers to support... Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: May 31st, 2022
Key Periods in U.S. History
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: May 22nd, 2023
Scientific Method Vs. Scientific Thinking
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. While this lesson... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: May 18th, 2023
Poetry and Poetic Devices
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: June 5th, 2023
The Greek Drama Antigone
This lesson allows students to reflect on and discuss their perceptions about writing. Shifting the focus from writing from scratch to using words already written as a starting place, students engage in reading and creating blackout poems from newspaper articles. Students also practice listening and... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 5th, 2023
Centered on the phenomenon of the Blue Fugates, students will explore how recessive traits increase in a population using a Punnett square activity, genotype/phenotype ratios and allele frequency calculations, and pedigree analysis. By the end of the lesson they will be able to explain how social, genetic,... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 21st, 2022
Recessive Gene Inheritance
This is an introduction to karyotypes and what uses they have. Prerequisite knowledge would be basic genetic structures, such as chromatids, genes, and alleles. Using this lesson would lead nicely into having a discussion/next lesson about the ethics of gene therapy and CRISPR in humans. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: May 24th, 2023
Karyotype for Chromosomal Disorders
This lesson uses mathematical manipulatives to engage students in learning how to use order of operations for finding solutions to simple expressions. Students will explore concepts by playing three games to work with order of operations and to help develop computational fluency. Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: November 16th, 2022
Order of Operations
Propaganda often plays a significant role in influencing populations, especially in times of crisis. In this lesson, students will build their knowledge about Paul Revere's role in the American Revolution and how he used propaganda to influence colonists' opinions through his engraving of the Boston... Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: May 20th, 2022
Propaganda & the American Revolution
This lesson takes students through an exploration of what they already know about slopes and develops their understanding of lines, especially the linear equation, y=mx+b. Students interact with the lesson in an easy-to-do activity that allows students to gather real data and then use those data to... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 22nd, 2022
Linear Functions
The U.S. Constitution can be a daunting document for students to understand. By having students search through the Constitution, connecting numbers to some important information about our government, this scavenger hunt activity provides the students with a non-threatening way to become familiar with... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 10th, 2022
U.S. Government
In this lesson, students will examine the three East Asian religions of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism using the traditional painting "The Vinegar Tasters" as a visual guide. Students will work in groups to read about these religions and teach the class what they learned. After completing a Venn... Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: July 15th, 2022
East Asian Religions
This short, introductory lesson is great for beginning the year in any history class from 8th-12th grade. Students will create their own definition of history and then compare it to quotes about history and the term's dictionary definition. Students then will reexamine their own definition, modify as... Read more »
Created by: Kristen Sublett
Date Updated: April 18th, 2023
Intro to History
This lesson presents an overview of political maps in general and specifically maps from countries in the Eastern Hemisphere. Students will understand the key features of a political map. They will complete a map of European countries, capital cities, and related political map information. By the end... Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: November 17th, 2022
European Countries
This lesson examines the phenomenon of coral bleaching as a context for learning about photosynthesis. Students investigate photosynthesis' inputs and outputs using an online simulation activity and connect these elements to the relationship between coral and their symbiotic algae. Student will also... Read more »
Created by: Heather Shaffery
Date Updated: October 28th, 2022
Photosynthesis and Coral Reef Health
Glucose in Biomolecule Synthesis
Students explore the molecular makeup of starch and gather evidence from a research article on marine cryptomonad nutrient requirements to answer the essential question: Read more »
Glucose in Biomolecule Synthesis
This lesson, used in conjunction with Ray Bradbury's short story "A Sound of Thunder," guides students to determine their own definitions for cause, effect, and foreshadowing, find examples of these concepts in the text, and create a brochure based on the story's fictional Time Travel, Inc. This lesson... Read more »
Analyzing Short Stories
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 »
The Greek Drama Antigone
Students will use text analysis strategies to summarize two significant events of the Revolutionary War - the Battle of Saratoga and the French Alliance. Then students, working in collaborative groups, will use their knowledge of these events to annotate the lyrics of the song "Guns and Ships" from... Read more »
Battle of Saratoga and the French Alliance
This lesson focuses on the notation for writing domain and range of a function. Students will recall their knowledge of domain and range then formalize their understanding of algebraic, set, and interval notation. This lesson is designed to be taught at the beginning of an Algebra II course. There are... Read more »
Created by: Brittany VanCleave
Date Updated: August 25th, 2022
Domain and Range Notations
Participating in difficult conversations in a classroom setting gives students a chance to learn how to express ideas and opinions safely. In this lesson, students build trust and respect for each other, building their confidence to speak on difficult topics without fear. Students will engage with complex... Read more »
Created by: Polly Base
Date Updated: May 24th, 2023
Speaking and Listening
Causes and Effects of the Congress of Vienna
This lesson introduces students to the impact of the Congress of Vienna. This lesson is meant to be taught after the French Revolution and Napoleon content has been introduced to students. Using hands-on activities, discussions, and research, students explore the individuals who helped shape the Congress... Read more »
Created by: Kim Press
Date Updated: July 12th, 2022
Causes and Effects of the Congress of Vienna
In this lesson, students will research, analyze, and evaluate the history of the Indian Reorganization Act, individual tribal governments, and their impact on Native Americans. Students will watch a short video describing the purpose of tribal governments. Then, they will choose one of the 39 Oklahoma... Read more »
Created by: Patricia McDaniels-Gomez
Date Updated: April 17th, 2023
Tribal Governments
Students will learn that light is formed by waves and can change direction through diffraction. They will use pencils to build a spectroscope and make observations as to the color and size of light. Students will research wave diffraction and use what they learned to build and test a spectroscope. Read more »
Created by: Sherry Franklin
Date Updated: August 2nd, 2022
What Is Diffraction?
In this lesson, students will explore some culinary aspects of French culture to learn about stereotypes and how learning about other cultures affects our conception of others. Students will define the word “stereotype.” After doing so, they will share stereotypes they have regarding French food, watch... Read more »
Created by: Macey Dedmon
Date Updated: April 20th, 2023
Examining Stereotypes in French Cuisine