Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
Students will learn how to disrupt cell respiration and what happens when cell respiration is disrupted. This is intended for a Pre-AP or AP Biology class, utilizing the respiration lab recommended by CollegeBoard. If selecting this lesson for other groups of students, read through the differentiations... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 22nd, 2023
Energetics / Cell Respiration
This is lesson #1 of a mini unit exploring the ideas of government structure, freedom, and whether governments truly protect our freedom. The student will assess the value of government by analyzing the structures of ruling bodies and how they influence the lives of citizens. Learners will have opportunities... Read more »
Created by: Clayton Canon
Date Updated: November 22nd, 2022
American Government
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 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
Segregation was a pivotal issue in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Homer Plessy took a stand against segregation and the notion that separate but equal was legal. Upon reviewing and evaluating the Fourteenth Amendment, Jim Crow Laws, the Plessy v. Ferguson case, and other... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 15th, 2024
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
In this lesson, students will explore the puzzling ideas behind Grandi's series in order to construct an idea of how the sum of an infinite number of terms in a sequence can be evaluated. After exploring Grandi's series, students take a closer look at limits of rational functions as their values of... Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: November 9th, 2022
Limits Toward Infinity in Rational Functions
In this lesson, students will explore how the sense of touch functions in The Great Gatsby by composing poetry that makes connections between character and an associated object's texture. Read more »
Created by: Jane Baber
Date Updated: August 10th, 2023
The Great Gatsby and the Sense of Touch
This lesson provides an overview of the key events and concepts of the Vietnam War. Using hands-on activities and discussions, students are able to explore the vocabulary and multiple perspectives of the war. This lesson is meant to be taught after this era and subject have been introduced to students.... Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: November 14th, 2024
The Vietnam War
This lesson teaches students about the golden ratio and Fibonacci numbers. The lesson focuses on finding the golden ratio in art, nature, and common objects, as well as in their own skeletal structure. Students take measurements and use calculations to identify examples of the golden ratio both inside... Read more »
Created by: Danny Mattox
Date Updated: September 26th, 2024
Fibonacci Sequence and Patterns in Nature
Students will gain 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: December 2nd, 2024
Push/Pull Factors
This activity will introduce the graphs of the sine and cosine functions. Students will discover how to write the equations of transformed sine and cosine graphs. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: October 2nd, 2023
Graphing Sine and Cosine
In this lesson, students will explore the calculus concepts of optimization and learn to increase their ability to identify, to model, and to set up functions to solve calculus word problems, focusing on the conceptual understanding over calculations. This is done through a mix of activities and by... Read more »
Created by: William Thompson
Date Updated: June 18th, 2024
Calculus Optimization
This lesson explores the role of segregation in Oklahoma's laws as well as the role Oklahoma played in the desegregation of the United States. Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: November 4th, 2022
Individual Rights and Majority Rule
Students will explore the cultural characteristics that appear in various versions of the story "Little Red Riding Hood." Additionally, students will compare and contrast how the cultural characteristics appear in each story and how American authors have revamped the story to mirror popular culture... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: September 10th, 2024
Cultural Characteristics
This lesson focuses on the theme of mob mentality. Students will look for connections between informational text and a piece of fiction from the book "The Outsiders." Students will analyze the actions of a character from "The Outsiders" and determine whether the character acted independently or as part... Read more »
Created by: Keristy Nieto
Date Updated: October 10th, 2024
Integrating Fiction and Nonfiction
This lesson places students in the role of a college admissions officer in order to help them better understand admissions requirements, the admissions process, and how to fill out a good college application. Read more »
Created by: Kristen Sublett
Date Updated: February 4th, 2024
10th Grade Pre-Campus Visit Learning Activity
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
The lesson examines the structure and jurisdiction of the federal court system as explained through Article III of the Constitution. Through playing a Jeopardy game and watching a video, students learn more about the structures, powers, and responsibilities of the Supreme Court and the lower federal... Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: November 10th, 2022
Judicial Branch
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: November 26th, 2024
The Great Gatsby and the Sense of Taste
In this lesson, students build key information literacy skills related to collecting, evaluating, and using information from different media types and formats to support a conclusion. Students start by playing through The Detective: Verona, a digital game-based learning (DGBL) module, to introduce the... Read more »
Created by: William Thompson
Date Updated: July 2nd, 2024
Information Literacy
In this lesson, students explore gas production by micro-organisms by designing and experimenting with biogas digesters made from small water bottles. Read more »
Created by: Danny Mattox
Date Updated: November 4th, 2022
Anaerobic Respiration
In this lesson on the importance of clean water as a natural resource, students will begin by observing a polluted water source within a United States community. Next, students will explore the significance of the Ganges River and the political and religious issues that impact the ongoing struggle to... Read more »
Created by: Kristen Sublett
Date Updated: November 5th, 2024
Ganges River Pollution
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 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
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
Once students have foundational knowledge of rhetorical analysis and persuasion, this lesson allows students to evaluate the use of rhetorical elements in modern product commercials and political campaign ads. This lesson can be used to make connections to rhetorical devices used in American or British... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: February 21st, 2024
Rhetorical Analysis of Media and Text
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: February 27th, 2023
Oklahoma History
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
The main cause of the French Revolution is still debated by historians today. In this lesson, students will begin by activating prior knowledge as they complete a Tell Me Everything activity on revolutions. They will sort conditions in a society that can lead to revolution into categories of political,... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: November 26th, 2024
Exploring Causes of the French Revolution
Students will identify the elements of a budget. They will examine how life events and lifestyle affect and change budgeting needs (i.e., personal expenses, emergencies, saving for future goals, family vs. individual). Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: June 28th, 2023
Standard 1: Fundamentals of Budgeting
This lesson analyzes the context and setting of the novel "Of Mice and Men." This cross-curricular lesson previews societal issues that were prevalent in John Steinbeck's text. Steinbeck was a young man during the Great Depression, and he wove the background and context of the Great Depression into... Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: November 14th, 2024
Background & Setting
Students will investigate financial lending sources and compare their services. Students will identify similarities and differences among the different sources through a mind-mapping strategy and evaluate which financial source offers the best opportunities for lending. Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: June 28th, 2023
Standard 3: Banking and Financial Services
Students will explore the phenomena of light absorption by viewing spectra of sunlight reflected off of different colors of paper. They will match absorption lines created by elements to absorption lines in sun spectra to reveal elements absorbing light in the sun. They will compare the sun's spectrum... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: November 3rd, 2022
Light Absorption and Stars
This lesson explores the crisis response to the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, in Oklahoma City and the development of the Oklahoma Standard. This lesson should be taught after students have learned about the bombing itself. Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: June 30th, 2022
The Oklahoma City Bombing
In this lesson, students will explore the protected rights all students have on school grounds based on the precedent set by 1969 Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines. Students will analyze how this court case helped to clarify and extend students' First Amendment freedoms, then they will reflect... Read more »
Created by: Mariana DeLoera
Date Updated: June 22nd, 2023
What are Your Rights as a Student?
This lesson addresses the circumstances that led up to the internment of Americans of Japanese descent during World War II. It asks students to consider the impact that internment had on the lives of those who were detained. Students will have opportunities to look at photos from internment camps and... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: May 22nd, 2023
The Internment of Japanese Americans During World War II
In this lesson, students will explore the technology used by European explorers during the Age of Exploration. Through analyzing images, watching a video, and selecting an activity from a Choice Board, students will learn about four navigational tools and how this new technology influenced European... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: June 23rd, 2022
European Exploration and Navigational Tools
This lesson introduces students to the American Indian code talkers from Oklahoma who heroically defended the United States in both World Wars. By viewing a documentary, playing a matching game, reading an article, and analyzing an excerpt from a graphic novel, they will also learn the stories of some... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: February 27th, 2023
The Code Talkers of Oklahoma
This lesson is meant to be taught after WWI content and introduces your students to WWII. Students will learn how economic and political issues after WWI lit a fuse that exploded into WWII. Using hands-on activities and discussions, students will explore the vocabulary and multiple causes of WWII. Following... Read more »
Created by: Kim Press
Date Updated: June 27th, 2024
Causes of WWII
In the interview with British Vogue, "Ask a Legend: Billie Eilish Answers Questions from Justin Bieber & 22 Other Famous Fans," singer-songwriter Billie Eilish said of her lyric writing process: “It’s good to know the basics of something because then you can take those basics and shift them around.”... Read more »
Created by: Jane Baber
Date Updated: September 16th, 2024
Writing an Outline
In this lesson, students observe the movement of heat energy by measuring the rise in water temperature after placing hot metal washers in the water. Students also calculate the amount of heat energy transferred between the washers and water. Lastly, students cite specific evidence to refute or agree... Read more »
Created by: Brittany Bowens
Date Updated: August 22nd, 2023
Flow of Heat Energy
This is the fifth and final lesson in the Diffraction Unit. In this lesson, students will apply the Doppler Effect to electromagnetic waves, and examine redshift as evidence of the expanding universe. Read more »
Created by: Chris Yohn
Date Updated: September 1st, 2023
Redshift and the Expanding Universe
In this lesson, students recall their prior knowledge about how the economy functions. Next, students predict how the federal budget is spent before reading an Infogram about fiscal policy. To extend their learning, students play a game with partners that requires them to cut or fund programs. Students... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: March 14th, 2024
The Economic Impact of Fiscal Policy
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 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
Students will listen to an engaging speech and record their thoughts. Students will then choose a topic of their interest and write down all they know about the topic in a two-minute paper. Students will learn more about preparing a speech and discuss their learning with their peers. They will create... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: September 12th, 2024
This professional learning activity asks participants to reflect on the importance of the inquiry cycle. Participants will examine a school data case study, take on different lenses for interpreting data, and explore what research tells us about the inquiry cycle and how it can support schools in making... Read more »
Created by: Shayna Pond
Date Updated: March 28th, 2024