Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
Test prep often becomes a "one and done" technique for preparing students for standardized tests or college entrance exams. However, this technique has only a small impact on students. In this session, teachers will explore test prep strategies that can be embedded into the curriculum in a more meaningful... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: September 10th, 2020
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: March 8th, 2022
This professional learning session focuses on providing teachers with foundational knowledge and strategies they can use to promote cognitive student engagement in the classroom. Participants will explore research on student engagement, analyze engagement scenarios, and generate strategies for generating... Read more »
Created by: Shayna Pond
Date Updated: January 19th, 2021
This professional learning session focuses on providing teachers with foundational knowledge and strategies they can use to promote affective student engagement in the classroom. Participants will explore research on student engagement, analyze engagement scenarios, and generate strategies for improving... Read more »
Created by: Matthew McDonald
Date Updated: January 12th, 2021
This professional learning session focuses on providing teachers with foundational knowledge and strategies they can use to promote student behavioral engagement in the classroom. Participants will explore research on student engagement, analyze engagement scenarios, and generate strategies for generating... Read more »
Created by: Matthew McDonald
Date Updated: January 12th, 2021
This professional learning session focuses on providing teachers with foundational knowledge and strategies they can use to promote emotional student engagement in the classroom. Participants will explore research on student engagement, analyze engagement scenarios, and generate strategies for improving... Read more »
Created by: Shayna Pond
Date Updated: January 19th, 2021
Workshop offered to all 10th to 12th-grade students interested in understanding the ACT and increasing their composite scores. Students engage in specific content through instructional strategies for seven two-hour ACT prep sessions. These research-based instructional strategy examples are designed... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: July 27th, 2021
Workshop offered to all 10th to 12th-grade students interested in understanding the ACT and increasing their composite scores. Students engage in specific content through instructional strategies for seven two-hour ACT prep sessions. These research-based instructional strategy examples are designed... Read more »
This professional development session focuses on authentic instruction and implementation of technology in the classroom. During this session, participants explore the K20 Center Mentoring Team’s materials, resources, and activities through a digital breakout session. Participants will have an opportunity... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: November 11th, 2021
Participants will actively engage in formative assessments that are in lessons on Learn and reflect on how those assessment strategies can be used in their specific content area and with their students. Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: October 20th, 2021
This 7th-grade campus visit focuses on providing an opportunity for students to tour a college campus and learn about different facets of college life. Students will participate in a learning activity to familiarize themselves with college degrees and other postsecondary education (PSE) options for... Read more »
Created by: Lacy Pennington
Date Updated: July 18th, 2022
This 7th Grade Campus Visit professional development focuses on providing an opportunity for students to tour a college campus and learn about different facets of college life. Students will participate in a learning activity to familiarize themselves with college degrees and other postsecondary education... Read more »
This lesson allows students to explore post-secondary education opportunities related to the sport of fencing. Read more »
Students consider statements they already know about Esports in college and then jigsaw readings about four colleges that offer Esports scholarships. After a discussion about the four college Esports programs, students examine the types of aid available at each college and compare that to the total... Read more »
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 lesson, students will use various strategies while defining the social contract and learning the origin of this political idea. Students will use instructional strategies to relate the ideas upon which our government was founded and research whether or not we are truly an equal society "with... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 22nd, 2020
U.S. Government
In this lesson, students will explore the concepts of sampling distributions and the central limit theorem through hands-on activities and practical application in the Deadly Distribution digital game-based learning (DGBL) module. Read more »
Created by: William Thompson
Date Updated: May 19th, 2022
Sampling Distribution and the Central Limit Theorem
In this lesson, students will learn to effectively identify and analyze themes through and across a variety of texts through a variety of engaging activities. Students will explore universal theme sets through the Four Corners and Always, Sometimes, Never strategies before composing their own theme... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 2nd, 2022
Theme
This lesson encourages students to analyze immigration patterns and policies in the United States and explore some of the experiences of Asian immigrants. Students will analyze statements about immigration and decide whether they are always, sometimes, or never true, delve into the history of immigration... Read more »
Created by: David Paulson
Date Updated: May 19th, 2022
Teaching with Technology
This lesson introduces identifying, classifying, and comparing rational and irrational numbers. Students will label and describe groups of numbers, as well as add new numbers into their appropriate groups. Then, students will predict whether statements are true or not based on their understanding. This... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 8th, 2022
Identifying and Classifying Rational Numbers
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: May 20th, 2022
themes in literature
This lesson is an introduction to polynomials. Solving polynomials is not included in this lesson, and would be the next lesson after this one. Academic language as well as patterns in polynomial family functions is explored. Prerequisite knowledge would be an understanding of functions and exponents... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 8th, 2022
Polynomials
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 »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: March 18th, 2021
Analyzing Short Stories
This lesson focuses on the accomplishments and culture of the Spiro Mounds builders and their impact on Oklahoma history. Students will take notes as they watch an interview with a Spiro Mounds archaeologist and read about pre-contact cultures before completing a Two-Minute Paper to summarize what they've... Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: May 19th, 2022
Oklahoma History
In this lesson, students will consider the context and evaluate perspectives while comparing "Story of an Hour" and excerpts from "The Awakening". After reading the stories, students will write a short response from the perspective of the characters. Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: June 29th, 2021
Perspective
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
Building upon students' understanding of gravity, this lesson helps them to determine that gravity is attractive and is correlated with mass and inversely correlative with distance. Rather than using calculations or formulas, students use data and tables to determine whether the provided information... Read more »
Created by: Alonna Smith
Date Updated: April 6th, 2021
Relative Gravity and Gravitational Force
This lesson focuses on the relationship between an equation and the domain or range of a function. The goal is for students to understand how to recognize and analyze the domain and range of different functions by their properties. Students will be able to solve for domain and range based on the graph... Read more »
Created by: Brittany VanCleave
Date Updated: July 11th, 2022
Domain and Range of Various Functions
In this lesson, students will learn about the different stages in which a rock can exist due to natural causes or human impact. Students will construct models that illustrate how biochemical processes cycle through living and nonliving organisms. Read more »
Created by: Brittany Bowens
Date Updated: November 30th, 2021
Earth's Systems
This lesson focuses on how to analyze and solve systems of linear equations by using the graphing method. The goal is for students to use prior knowledge to expand their understanding of equations and how they connect to real-world scenarios. Students will be able to identify, solve, and write equations... Read more »
Created by: Brittany VanCleave
Date Updated: July 13th, 2022
Systems of Linear Equations: Graphing
In this lesson, students will be introduced to imaginary numbers and their history. Students will learn how to simplify the square root of a negative number and how to simplify i to a power. Before beginning this lesson, students need to (1) know how to simplify the square root of a whole number and... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: June 30th, 2022
Understanding and Simplifying Imaginary Numbers
This is the first lesson in the "What Is a Wave?" unit. Students will begin by recalling information they already know about waves. They will explore movement with springs to learn about and identify types of waves. In groups, students will create anchor charts with key concepts and examples of waves.... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: June 23rd, 2022
London Bridge Is Falling Down
In this seventh lesson of the "Lord of the Flies" unit, students examine the idea of evil and whether or not individuals can overcome the worst thing they have ever done. Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: August 12th, 2022
Good to Be Bad
In this introductory lesson to the unit Introduction to Waves, students recall information they already know about waves. They explore with Slinkies to recognize types of waves, then create an anchor chart in groups with key concepts about waves and complete an exit ticket to assess their learning. Read more »
London Bridge is Falling Down
In this introductory lesson, students will explore the different parts of a journalistic article to determine what makes a good newspaper or magazine story. Students will begin by brainstorming a list of elements that make an article visually, textually, and emotionally engaging. Students then will... Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: March 4th, 2022
What Makes a Good Article?