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: January 3rd, 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 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: March 18th, 2024
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
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: September 24th, 2024
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: June 4th, 2024
This professional learning activity asks participants to reflect on meaningful learning experiences through the question, "What makes learning meaningful?" Participants build up a definition of meaningful learning as they progress through the activities. Participants will experience a lesson that models... Read more »
Created by: Mariah Warren
Date Updated: August 6th, 2024
This professional learning session introduces some of the more effective strategies for preparing for the ACT. The goals of this learning experience are to access prior knowledge of the ACT and use the "Power Up: ACT Prep" activities already prepared to assist students in increasing their scores. Read more »
Created by: Matthew McDonald
Date Updated: October 21st, 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: June 13th, 2025
In this professional development, participants explore elements of student engagement and examples of positive classroom culture. Next, they participate in a variety of engaging instructional strategies as learners and gain experience modifying and/or scaffolding these strategies to support their own... Read more »
Created by: Heather Shaffery
Date Updated: August 13th, 2024
In this session, participants will examine their understanding of family engagement and reflect on past Family Leadership Academy (FLA) efforts to identify areas of strength and improvement. They will explore the impact of increased family participation on student success and school culture, and they... Read more »
Created by: Mindy Newberry
Date Updated: June 20th, 2025
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: June 18th, 2024
Sampling Distribution and the Central Limit Theorem
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
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: September 7th, 2022
Teaching With Technology
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
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: August 10th, 2023
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: June 3rd, 2025
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: June 4th, 2025
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 3rd, 2025
Perspective
This lesson builds upon students' understanding of gravity and guides students to understand that gravity is attractive, correlates with mass, and inversely correlates with distance. Students conduct a lab then evaluate various statements about gravity based on their understanding of the lab. At the... Read more »
Created by: Alonna Smith
Date Updated: January 24th, 2025
Relative Gravity and Gravitational Force
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
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: January 22nd, 2025
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: August 10th, 2023
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: September 10th, 2024
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 5th, 2023
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: June 3rd, 2025
Good to Be Bad
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: June 3rd, 2025
What Makes a Good Article?
Energy Transfer using the Engineering Design Process
Students will delve into the engineering design process by developing devices that convert energy from one form to another. First, they will assess their understanding of energy transfers using the "Always, Sometimes, or Never" strategy. Then, they generate a word cloud to explore their knowledge about... Read more »
Created by: Kallie Patrick
Date Updated: February 17th, 2025
Energy Transfer using the Engineering Design Process
Enter if you dare. This highly spooky lesson will have your students exploring the history, motivation, and global perspectives of vampires through excerpts and videos across time. Make sure when you embark on this adventure with your students that you keep a close eye on them throughout—vampires tend... Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: June 3rd, 2025
Vampire Tropes Through History
This lesson is a single-day introduction to key vocabulary related to the Enlightenment period. Students will engage in discussion about general concepts raised by philosophers of the time, sort terms into common themes, and begin to relate them to American life today. Read more »
Created by: Brayden Stone
Date Updated: May 31st, 2023
Introduction to the Enlightenment
Students will activate and build their background knowledge so that they are better able to comprehend Beowulf and draw connections to crucial parts of the story. This lesson is intended to be taught just before students read Beowulf. Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: October 6th, 2023
Introductory Material on Beowulf
This lesson introduces students to the emotions of anxiety and anxiety disorders. Students identify the causes and symptoms of certain anxiety disorders, including Social Anxiety Disorder, phobias, and Generalized Anxiety Disorder. Students then have an opportunity to explore different coping strategies... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: January 18th, 2024
Causes, Symptoms, and Coping Strategies
In this lesson, students leverage their prior knowledge of numerical long division, factoring, and graphing as a foundation for exploring polynomial division. The lesson formalizes student knowledge of polynomial long division, covering both scenarios with and without remainders. Through active practice... Read more »
Created by: Lydia Baker
Date Updated: March 4th, 2024
Polynomial Division
Executive Branch, Cabinet, Executive Departments
In this lesson, students will research the role of the President’s Cabinet and the Executive Departments in creating public policy. Students will explore the duties of the cabinet, then participate in a simulated activity to gain a deeper understanding of the role the executive departments play in our... Read more »
Created by: Dannie Deason
Date Updated: May 22nd, 2024
Executive Branch, Cabinet, Executive Departments
This lesson will explore the particular challenges of experimental design in psychology. Students will get to know the fundamentals of experimentation, and how they apply to psychological research. They will come to appreciate why the scientific method is necessary, and how psychology employs it, including... Read more »
Created by: James Welch
Date Updated: November 27th, 2024
Psychology Research
In this lesson, students begin by evaluating statements to decide if they are always, sometimes, or never true, building their critical thinking skills. They then explore Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal, annotating and analyzing the text. Next, students identify an issue from their school, society,... Read more »
Created by: Emma Hutson
Date Updated: April 7th, 2025
Satire
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: May 23rd, 2025
When you have a big task ahead of you, you need a plan. Why? Because when you have setbacks, a solid plan and manageable goals can help. In this activity, students learn about using micro-goals to break apart large tasks into smaller pieces, how to make big projects more manageable, and how to handle... Read more »
Created by: Sherry Franklin
Date Updated: June 25th, 2024
In this reading ACT prep activity, students review the structure of the reading portion of the ACT and practice locating the main idea, supporting details, and evidence of an ACT-style reading passage about The Great Depression. Students practice responding to five ACT-style questions and review the... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: April 29th, 2025
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
This 7th grade campus visit companion activity complements a college campus tour for students. To learn about different facets of college life, students will participate in a learning activity to familiarize themselves with college degrees and other postsecondary education (PSE) options for various... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: April 16th, 2025
