Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
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
Students will physically model the concept of simplifying algebraic expressions as a class then apply this knowledge to written expressions. This is a great lesson for both introducing the concept as well as remediating like terms, if needed. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 26th, 2024
Simplifying Algebraic Expressions
Students will use primary sources to explore and help them explain the Boston Massacre. They will compare two images depicting the event and draw conclusions about what happened based on what the artist chose to depict. Students will examine the roles of perspective and propaganda with regard to the... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 29th, 2020
Primary sources
This lesson addresses rules for exponents. Students will discover the rules for exponents through an exploration of numerical expressions and visual representations of exponents. Prerequisites for this lesson include an understanding of the components of an exponent. This lesson allows students to explore... Read more »
Created by: Amber Stokes
Date Updated: September 30th, 2024
Exponent Rules: Digital Breakout
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 »
Created by: Danny Mattox
Date Updated: October 29th, 2024
DNA Processes
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 is intended to introduce the unit circle, leading into the concept of radians as a unit rather than degrees. This lesson is intended to introduce the concept at the beginning of the unit, but it could also work as remediation if students are just not getting it. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: February 15th, 2024
The Unit Circle / Trigonometry
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 comparing and contrasting fiction and nonfiction, writing a researchable inquiry question, and developing justice-based research questions. Students will familiarize themselves with the Tulsa Race Massacre and then read an excerpt from the novel "Dreamland Burning," followed by... Read more »
Created by: Polly Base
Date Updated: June 10th, 2024
Guided Inquiry Research
Students will investigate the similarity of reproduction, embryonic development, and DNA sequences to illustrate the indirect evidence for evolution. This lesson is adapted for a middle school class. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 28th, 2023
Evolution: Embryonic Development
In this lesson, students will explore a variety of plant reproductive structures and determine differences between sexual and asexual reproduction through hands-on observations and online research. Based on their findings, students will use engineering design to create and test "seed dispersal" structures.... Read more »
Created by: Heather Shaffery
Date Updated: October 9th, 2024
Plant Reproduction and Seed Dispersal
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
This lesson is intended to support life science standards found in biology. The lesson is not intended to cover the standards completely, but rather to supplement them and raise awareness of ethical issues and racism in science and medicine. Read more »
Created by: Alonna Smith
Date Updated: March 11th, 2024
Ethics in Scientific Research
This is a lesson for Law of Cosines, which also connects Law of Sines and Law of Cosines to map triangulation. Students will receive a brief introduction to Trig Pillars: a tool used in the United Kingdom in the mid-20th century to help with mapmaking. Then, they will go through an informal proof of... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: September 16th, 2024
Triangulation and Mapping
In this lesson, students will recall expanding polynomials and factoring quadratics. Students will learn how to factor polynomials with two, three, or four terms: difference of two squares, sum or difference of two cubes, trinomials of the quadratic form that are not quadratics, and grouping. Students... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: September 27th, 2023
Factoring Polynomials
In this lesson, students will explore the culture of the Seminole tribe and their patchwork. They will then use these patterns to explore transformations, specifically translations represented graphically, algebraically, verbally, and with vectors. Students will apply what they have learned to create... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: December 18th, 2023
Translations: Seminole Patchwork
Students discover the sum and difference identities for sine, cosine, and tangent. They discover the double-angle identities for sine and cosine. They will then use those identities to practice simplifying and verifying trigonometric identities during this archeologist-themed lesson. The prerequisite... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: September 27th, 2023
Sum, Difference, and Double-Angle Identities
Students use manipulatives to investigate triangle congruence and complete proofs using triangle congruence theorems in this game-show themed lesson. Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: February 28th, 2024
Investigating Triangle Congruence Theorems
A dash of this and a dash of that works in cooking, but does it work in writing? In this lesson, students will explore the use of em and en dashes. Through reading the short story “Cooking Time,” students will get to explore the use of dashes. Students will also have the opportunity to write a response... Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: April 25th, 2024
The Weirdest Sentence I'd Ever Heard
Participants will experience a workshop session that provides the fundamentals of Essential Questions. They will then discover how they can use Essential Questions as a focus when lesson planning by creating their own content-specific Essential Questions. Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Williams
Date Updated: June 4th, 2024
This professional development session is designed to help teachers employ effective instructional strategies to help students interact with and deepen new content knowledge. These strategies provide in-class opportunities where students can reflect on critical content through cognitively complex tasks.... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: May 14th, 2024
How can we place students in the role of being active rather than passive learners? How do we allow students to have choices in their learning while at the same time creating a diverse learning environment? The answer is learning stations. In this professional learning session, participants will discuss... Read more »
Created by: Mary Braggs
Date Updated: May 4th, 2023