This professional development session focuses on the components of authentic learning. Participants will connect the components of authentic learning to a Rumpelstiltskin lesson. Read more »
This professional development session focuses on the components of authentic learning. The session is designed to have a minimum of eight participants. Participants will connect the components of authentic learning to a Rumpelstiltskin lesson and explore ways to make their own lessons more authentic... Read more »
The "Embedded Literacy Across the Disciplines (2019)" professional development focuses on defining and promoting literacy strategies across all subject areas. Participants will examine how literacy components are necessary for their subject areas, identify the specific literacy strategies appropriate... Read more »
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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 »
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This professional development will provide participants with literacy strategies to use in their classrooms as they implement document-based questions (DBQs). Read more »
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This professional learning session focuses on providing teachers with foundational knowledge and strategies they can use to promote student autonomy. Participants will explore research on best practices for self-regulated learning, analyze learner motivation, reflect on personal teaching styles, and... Read more »
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This professional learning sessions focuses on providing teachers with foundational knowledge and strategies they can use to promote student autonomy. Participants will explore research on best practices for self-regulated learning, analyze learner motivation, reflect on personal teaching styles, and... Read more »
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Constructing a technology integration vision is the way to build cohesion and support an innovative school climate. In this activity, participants will explore the needs of the school and their pedagogy to develop a vision for the school site or district. Read more »
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Students will analyze President Lyndon B. Johnson's speech on voting rights. Students will also do a quick write regarding the current condition of voting rights in the United States using content from the speech and current events to substantiate their claims. Read more »
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This lesson will focus on the impacts of the Cold War era in U.S. history. Guiding this lesson is an essential question focused on the use of fear. Hands-on activities, reading of a relevant news article, and argumentative writing will assist students in their exploration of brinkmanship and mutually... Read more »
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This lesson explores the use of literacy tests during elections following Reconstruction. Students must understand the First, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments prior to this activity. This lesson will allow students to investigate the purpose of literacy tests while also allowing students... Read more »
Post-Reconstruction America
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In this lesson, students explore energy conservation based on how energy from the sun is captured and used to make chemical energy. Students also review how solar energy and the concept of photosynthesis have been used to engineer technology that could be beneficial to humans. This lesson can be used... Read more »
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In this lesson, students will listen to a song while completing a painting activity. Students will collaborate to paint a list of descriptive words on their canvases based on the song. Considering the song lyrics as poetry, students will analyze the song, focusing on descriptive language and sensory... Read more »
Communication: Using Descriptive Language
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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 »
The Vietnam War
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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 »
Key Periods in U.S. History
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Banned Books, Censorship Part 1
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Through conversation and close reading, students will begin the study of a controversial work of literature by examining the pros and cons of trigger warnings in our society. Students will choose two published opinion pieces (one from both sides of the free-speech debate) and deconstruct the arguments... Read more »
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During this interactive lesson, students will explore various map types, learn about the different features of maps, hone in on the unique qualities of their state's maps, and create their very own maps of the state of Oklahoma. Read more »
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Students will use close reading strategies to analyze an author’s tone within nonfiction texts. The class will begin with modern music lyrics, then shift to famous passages of nonfiction writers. Through collaborative exercises, students will scaffold knowledge of word choice and structure to analyze... Read more »
tone analysis through music and nonfiction
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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 »
Propaganda & the American Revolution
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Students will implement a close reading strategy to annotate and summarize an informational text about Generation Z slang. Students will use context clues to infer the meaning of slang words. With the knowledge gained from the text reading, students will create their own Gen Z dictionary of definitions. This... Read more »
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Interdependence of Science, Engineering, and Technology on Society and the Natural World
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In this lesson on the interdependence of science, engineering, and technology, students will use the example of snake venom to explore how natural resources can be used to make synthetic products that humans rely on. Students will learn and practice research strategies and evaluate sources. Finally,... Read more »
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Students will examine various forms of earthquake data, ranging from intensity, magnitude, and first-person accounts, to explore which factors contribute to earthquake damage and how geologists use this information to pinpoint the epicenter and focus of an earthquake. Students will look at USGS data... Read more »
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Students examine primary and secondary source documents and photos surrounding the Manhattan Project. Using a close reading strategy, they will highlight and summarize important information found in the documents in their own words. Students will also analyze photos from the Manhattan Project. Students... Read more »
World War II Era
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Students will use DNA processes such as replication, transcription, and translation to study the differences between healthy individuals and those with a genetic disorder (in this case, cystic fibrosis). Students will apply this knowledge to the inheritance of traits through the use of Punnett squares. Read more »
DNA Processes
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In this lesson, students explore gas production by micro-organisms by designing and experimenting with biogas digesters made from small water bottles. Read more »
Anaerobic Respiration
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In this lesson, students will analyze primary and secondary sources to determine the push and pull factors that led immigrants to come to the United States by the millions in the 1880s through the 1920s and will also examine the immigrant experience upon arriving in the United States, including the... Read more »
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In this lesson, students will identify the components of Reconstruction after the Civil War and determine whether reconstruction was a success or a failure. In order to do so, students will analyze primary sources from opposing perspectives on reconstruction before forming their own opinions, based... Read more »
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Using a graphic organizer, students record what they know about Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Then, collaborating with partners, students expand their knowledge with group discussion and research. Students then create a Venn diagram to examine and compare the three monotheistic religions as a final... Read more »
Monotheistic Religions
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Health and Media Literacy: Advertising Practices in the Tobacco Industry
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This health and media literacy lesson is intended to raise awareness of predatory advertising practices in the tobacco industry. Read more »
Health and Media Literacy: Advertising Practices in the Tobacco Industry
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This lesson is based on the short story "The Lady, or the Tiger?" by Frank R. Stockton. Students will summarize the story and analyze each character's personality and internal conflict. Students will also identify the external conflict through the plot and setting. The author does not provide an ending... Read more »
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In this lesson, students learn to compare and contrast geographical features found among different regions in the United States. Students will then apply these skills by comparing their home state's features with those of another state in the nation. Read more »
This Health and Media Literacy lesson is intended to raise awareness of the predatory advertising practices in the tobacco industry. Read more »
Media literacy: Advertising practices in the tobacco industry
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Students will read and interact with the short story, "The Most Dangerous Game." They will focus on making predictions, analyzing the text, and evaluating the characters—namely protagonist v. antagonist. Read more »
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Students will read and interact with the short story, "The Most Dangerous Game." They will focus on making predictions, analyzing the text, and evaluating the characters--namely protagonist v. antagonist. Read more »
Understanding Character
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Understanding Asthma
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In this introductory lesson to the Connecting Social Issues and Human Health Inequities unit, students will explore asthma through a variety of station activities, videos, readings, and charts. In doing so, students will better understand what occurs in the respiratory system before, during, and after... Read more »
Understanding Asthma
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Environmental Racism in America
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During this fifth and final lesson in the Connecting Social Issues and Health Inequalities unit, students will analyze Marvin Gaye's song, "Mercy, Mercy Me," discuss the history of environmental racism in America, and complete and present their project proposals. Read more »
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In this lesson, students will explore biotic and abiotic factors and the essential elements that are cycled throughout Earth’s many ecosystems. Students will determine how the cycling of these elements sustains life and then will create their own closed ecosystems. Read more »
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This is a lesson that revolves around a modified version of The College Board's floating disks lab for AP biology. It can be used as an introduction or a wrap-up of a photosynthesis lesson. Read more »
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In this lesson, students will participate in a “Tip of the Iceberg” activity to track what they know about using loops throughout the lesson. First, students will create a loop using Chrome Music Lab’s Melody Maker. Then, they will discuss what a loop is and watch a professional musician build a full... Read more »
Creating Songs with Loops
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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 »
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Designing YouTube Content Using World Languages
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Students discuss their favorite content creators on YouTube. They explore different content creators on a Wakelet and consider what it is about the video that makes it intriguing. Students learn from a YouTube content creator that creating YouTube videos is "kind of like an octopus"—you need a lot of... Read more »
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Students discuss their favorite content creators on YouTube. They explore different content creators on a Wakelet and consider what it is about the video that makes it intriguing. Students learn from a YouTube content creator that creating YouTube videos is "kind of like an octopus"—you need a lot of... Read more »
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