Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
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 investigate the similarity of reproduction, embryonic development, and DNA sequences to illustrate the indirect evidence for evolution. "How EGG-ceptional Are We?" is written for a general biology course. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 14th, 2024
Evolution: Embryonic Development
In this lesson, students will explore, learn, and connect concepts of Intermolecular Forces (IMFs) to physical phenomena. Prerequisite knowledge would be that bonding exists (that is, there is continuum from non-polar covalent to ionic bonding) as well as the formation of ions and electron configuration.... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 22nd, 2023
Intermolecular Forces
Equality, Fairness, and the Amendments
Students will read and analyze the short story, "Harrison Bergeron," by American writer Kurt Vonnegut. Students will consider how the amendments to the constitution promote equality. They will discuss different claims, which support the amendments, and discuss evidence or lack of evidence to explain... Read more »
Created by: Polly Base
Date Updated: August 29th, 2024
Equality, Fairness, and the Amendments
In this U.S. government lesson, students will explore limitations to the Constitutional right to free speech by analyzing court cases that use the "clear and present danger" precedent. They will do so by learning about the Supreme Court case Gitlow v. New York and analyzing other cases that similarly... Read more »
Created by: Mariana DeLoera
Date Updated: August 14th, 2023
Gitlow v. New York