Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
Formative Assessments are opportunities for teachers to evaluate student understanding and areas of need during the process of learning, rather than at the end of a unit. In this session, participants will identify formative assessment strategies for various grade levels or content areas. After exploring... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: October 13th, 2023
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 »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: August 6th, 2024
The Building School and Classroom Community professional development focuses on building school identity among teachers and students. Participants will be empowered to select research-based strategies that create community and support learning for all students. Participants will create a vision for... Read more »
Created by: Karin Lange
Date Updated: August 10th, 2023
The Parent Leadership Academy designs and engages a school team consisting of parents, community members, and school leaders to forge the commitment and involvement of parent-school-community partnerships. This event will lead and educate the parent leadership teams through a data driven decision-making... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: January 25th, 2024
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 »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: August 6th, 2024
This 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 for their content, and discuss ways to implement... Read more »
Created by: Keristy Nieto
Date Updated: May 23rd, 2025
This professional development session focuses on instilling an understanding of the frameworks of authentic learning as well as the SAMR (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, Redefinition) model for technology. Participants will apply these practices to the authentic use of technology in their... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Williams
Date Updated: July 27th, 2023
This Authenticity and Chromebooks professional development session focuses on the relationship of authentic instruction and technology implementation in the classroom. Participants will identify, analyze, and apply components of authenticity in lessons and activities to further their pedagogical knowledge. Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: May 30th, 2024
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 session engages participants in a model learning activity that showcases how specific technologies that are typically teacher-centered can be authentically used to develop student-centered learning environments. Participants will explore interactive technologies such as Chromebooks and touchscreen... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: September 10th, 2024
During this introductory module, participants are introduced to foundational ideas about classroom assessment. They work to define and examine the main types of assessments and their role in a student-centered learning environment, Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: August 29th, 2024
This professional learning session will focus on how to incorporate a love of reading and student choice into all classes. Participants will explore a variety of authentic strategies that support reading comprehension, substantive conversations, and student choice to gain a deeper understanding that... Read more »
Created by: Patricia McDaniels-Gomez
Date Updated: July 5th, 2024
How can 3D printers be used authentically to support learning? In this session, participants will be able to distinguish between examples vs. non-examples of authentic 3D printing. Participants will view a LEARN lesson and maker challenge that applies authenticity using a 3D printer, extracting the... Read more »
Created by: Brittany Bowens
Date Updated: July 2nd, 2024
During this session, participants practice formative assessment strategies that get students moving. They walk, dance, vote, and debate their way to authentic learning experiences. Using multiple resources from the K20 LEARN website, participants leave the session with easily customized strategies that... Read more »
Created by: Jared Whaley
Date Updated: May 2nd, 2023
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 looks at K20's CAN DO resources. CAN DO stands for College Application Necessities for Different Opportunities. At the beginning of this session, participants will review common college vocabulary and application data. They will then explore the different resources... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: January 19th, 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
The Leading Educators in Authentic Development (LEAD) workshop is a series of professional learning sessions to develop teachers’ skills to lead professional development at their school sites. This workshop features four sessions over a two-day period. This third session focuses on developing a foundational... Read more »
Created by: Mariah Warren
Date Updated: November 11th, 2024
In this session, participants explore the Authenticity Framework and foundations for how people learn. The Authenticity Framework is a conceptual framework that promotes a meaningful, student-centered learning environment and encourages higher-order thinking. Participants will also explore excerpts... Read more »
Created by: Brittany Bowens
Date Updated: October 2nd, 2024
During this professional learning session, participants will explore the principles of authenticity and real-world connections. They will apply academic knowledge to solve and illustrate authentic problems that students may encounter both inside and outside of the classroom. Additionally, they will... Read more »
Created by: Brittany Bowens
Date Updated: October 14th, 2024
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 »
Created by: Milton Bowens
Date Updated: September 20th, 2022
Voting Rights
Students will discuss global cultural, political, and economic issues/challenges facing today's society. Students will work independently and in groups, utilizing discussion, text, handouts, and video, to identify the pros and cons of globalization. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 19th, 2024
Globalization
America’s Industrial Transformation
In this lesson, students will investigate the careers of four major business leaders from the late 19th century to discover how their actions and ideas transformed the U.S. economy. Students will consider the distinction between “Robber Barons” and “Captains of Industry,” two terms that historians have... Read more »
Created by: Roger Jackson
Date Updated: March 6th, 2025
America’s Industrial Transformation
In this lesson, students will explore various types of expository writing. Students will experience the expository forms of description, sequence, comparison, cause/effect, and problem/solution writing through engaging tasks and collaborative activities and create an expository writing reference sheet... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 25th, 2024
Expository Writing
Students will investigate multiple viewpoints from primary source documents of American imperialism. The texts will cover the United States' acquisition of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Hawaii. Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: November 26th, 2024
"The White Man’s Burden" by Rudyard Kipling
Students will use two-dimensional (2-D) figures and nets to explore three-dimensional (3-D) figures and will talk about how 3-D figures combine to create sculptures. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 15th, 2020
3-D Shapes
This lesson examines key terrorist attacks on U.S. soil and identifies how the Patriot Act was created to prevent terrorism. Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: June 22nd, 2023
The Patriot Act of 2001
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: November 25th, 2024
Intermolecular Forces
Discovering the Relationship Between Overcrowding and the Spread of Diseases
Students will examine the black plague and understand how it was spread and how it could have been prevented. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: July 24th, 2023
Discovering the Relationship Between Overcrowding and the Spread of Diseases
This lesson will focus on the impact of the New Deal in addressing the hardships of the Great Depression. Guiding this lesson is an essential question focused on debating the level of government intervention in a crisis situation and when that intervention becomes too powerful. Students will be able... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: December 13th, 2022
The New Deal
In this lesson, students consider why people choose to move and settle where they do. They explore specific, real-world examples of rapid urbanization in India to identify motivations for movement by analyzing the influence of push and pull factors. To extend their learning, students complete a short... Read more »
Created by: Clayton Canon
Date Updated: April 21st, 2025
Push/Pull Factors
How do you persuade others? How did the characters in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" use ethos, pathos, and logos to sway the minds of the Roman people? This lesson explores the three modes of persuasion and invites students to analyze and notate the speeches in Shakespeare's tragedy for ethos, pathos,... Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: October 10th, 2024
Julius Caesar
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
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
In this lesson, students will explore the meaning and application of the Bill of Rights. Students will summarize each amendment from the Bill of Rights in their own words and discuss the application of each amendment. Students will then discuss whether or not "ballot selfies" should be a protected form... Read more »
Created by: Sarah Brewer
Date Updated: November 27th, 2024
Interpreting the Bill of Rights
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 »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 10th, 2023
Tone Analysis Through Music and Nonfiction
This stress management lesson will challenge students' ideas about stress and its effects on the body. Students will participate in a high-pressure competitive activity, learn about good and bad stress, research and evaluate articles about stress, and create SMART goals for stress management. By the... Read more »
Created by: Adam Yeargin
Date Updated: November 26th, 2024
Stress Management
This lesson engages students in exploring, assessing, and drawing conclusions about the validity of various media sources through exploration of the 2019 "Alienstock" phenomenon. Students will work independently and in groups to compare and analyze different media sources and evaluate the validity and... Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: March 24th, 2025
Analyzing Information, Media, and Validity
In this lesson, students will compose haiku inspired by an analysis of the connection between smell and memory in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby." Read more »
Created by: Jane Baber
Date Updated: February 22nd, 2024
The Great Gatsby and the Sense of Smell
Students explore how different cultures have contributed to the United States of America. We are made of many, but we are one nation. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 29th, 2020
Respect for Cultural Diversity
Interdependence of Science, Engineering, and Technology on Society and the Natural World
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 »
Created by: Teresa Randall
Date Updated: December 2nd, 2024
Interdependence of Science, Engineering, and Technology on Society and the Natural World
Students will identify public services provided through taxes. They will read and present information about local, state, and federal revenue sources that become our tax-based funding for services and programs. Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: January 24th, 2023
Standard 2: Taxes
There's more than enough information at our students' fingertips, but how do they determine if that information is credible? In order to determine the credibility of a source, students first examine the credibility of individuals and then investigate their own authority and expertise on a particular... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 10th, 2023
Evaluating Sources
In this lesson, students will move through a series of primary source documents, maps, and graphs to explore the underlying causes of World War I. After analyzing the documents, students will use a graphic organizer to connect new information to historical concepts: militarism, alliances, imperialism,... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 22nd, 2023
World War I
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. It will also examine the immigrant experience upon arriving in the United States, including the... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 21st, 2024
U.S. History
In this lesson, students will examine the three East Asian religions of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism using the traditional painting "The Vinegar Tasters" as a visual guide. Students will work in groups to read about these religions and teach the class what they learned. After completing a Venn... Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: July 15th, 2022
East Asian Religions
In this lesson about perspectives in the Civil War, students will participate in a role-playing activity to become familiar with the motives and points of view of various key figures in the Civil War; analyze each figure in greater depth; participate in a close reading and annotation activity involving... Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: October 11th, 2024
Perspectives in The Civil War
This lesson has students compare anatomical similarities and differences between organisms and explain the relationship between organisms based on homologous structures. Students first watch a video about a giant parrot and read an article about a giant penguin, then explore the ancient roots of modern-day... Read more »
Created by: Teresa Randall
Date Updated: March 12th, 2025
Homologous Structures
In this lesson, students will discuss conflicts, cliques, and stereotypes and what can cause each of them to arise. Through the lens of five nonfiction articles inspired by the cliques in the film "The Breakfast Club," students will form real-world connections to the stereotypes at their own schools... Read more »
Created by: Jane Baber
Date Updated: February 21st, 2024
What Makes Us Clique?
This lesson invites students to explore three monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Students begin the lesson by sharing their prior knowledge of the three religions and collaborating with partners to expand their understanding through discussion. Student groups then read articles... Read more »
Created by: Kristen Sublett
Date Updated: February 18th, 2025
Monotheistic Religions
This lesson explores DNA fingerprinting and how it relates to paternity (or familial) tests and police investigations. After talking about what DNA fingerprinting is and what it covers, students will read an article to decide whether they agree or disagree with the practice of DNA fingerprinting in... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 28th, 2023
DNA Fingerprinting and Profiling
In this lesson, students reflect on the diversity of the churches in their community before exploring the causes and key figures of the Protestant Reformation and making connections to how the Reformation affected what they see in their community today. Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: July 15th, 2022
Global Age
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
After analyzing a variety of character descriptions, students will take a closer look at their own writing and make revisions to enhance their character descriptions. Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: June 11th, 2021
Narrative Writing
In this lesson, students will discuss aspects of performance anxiety when speaking in front of an audience. They will identify strategies to manage these symptoms and create a tool to help improve their confidence when speaking to a group. Read more »
Created by: Adam Yeargin
Date Updated: September 12th, 2024
Speech and Debate
In this lesson, students explore the idea of superstitions and ghost stories and how they affect people and their emotions and behaviors. Students read “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving and examine how the two main characters react to and are affected by the legend of the headless... Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: September 12th, 2024
Characters' Differing Perspectives
Students will look at the increase in seismic activity in Oklahoma and around the United States in recent years. Some say the earthquakes are a direct result of an oil and gas process called hydraulic fracturing, while others disagree. Students will investigate this question for themselves and formulate... Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: July 10th, 2024
Earthquakes in Oklahoma
This lesson examines the phenomenon of coral bleaching as a context for learning about photosynthesis. Students investigate photosynthesis' inputs and outputs using an online simulation activity and connect these elements to the relationship between coral and their symbiotic algae. Student will also... Read more »
Created by: Heather Shaffery
Date Updated: June 26th, 2023
Photosynthesis and Coral Reef Health
Students will explore the relationship between fractions using real-world examples. First, students will practice different strategies for converting fractions for a cupcake recipe. This includes adding fractions, converting mixed numbers, and working with improper fractions. Students will extend their... Read more »
Created by: Jane Baber
Date Updated: January 15th, 2021
Fractions
This lesson is part of a series, titled "Woman Crush Wednesday" in which we look at how female scientists have shaped our view of science. In this biology lesson, students will explore the contributions of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the interconnectedness of an ecosystem, and endangered species. Read more »
Created by: Mariah Warren
Date Updated: November 22nd, 2022
Students analyze primary source documents to understand the motives of colonists who supported, opposed, or remained neutral before the American Revolution. They apply this understanding to open-ended scenarios and write from the perspective of a loyalist, patriot, or neutralist. Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: November 11th, 2024
American Revolution
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 different research methods used by sociologists. Students will work in groups to analyze different readings and summarize what they have read. To extend their learning, students will create visual representations of the different research methods to display across... Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: September 1st, 2022
The Foundations of Sociology
This lesson is intended to support life science standards found in biology. The lesson is not intended to cover the standards completely but to supplement them and raise awareness of ethical issues and racism in science and medicine. Read more »
Created by: Alonna Smith
Date Updated: February 18th, 2025
Ethics in Scientific Research
Environmental Factors
During this second lesson in the Connecting Social Issues and Health Inequities unit, students will analyze Oklahoma City's air quality and pollutant levels from 2020 and summarize important information about air pollutants in a public service announcement. Read more »
Created by: Alonna Smith
Date Updated: July 13th, 2023
Environmental Factors
In this lesson, students evaluate the historical and cultural perspectives behind spoken word poetry. Students review several spoken word poems and analyze their historical, cultural, and social connections while studying the history of spoken word poetry. Students then demonstrate and justify their... Read more »
Created by: Shelby Blackwood
Date Updated: September 12th, 2024
Historical and Cultural Perspectives in Literature
Students will inquire about what is happening in a photo. At first, they might say that it is the ocean or propose that it is a beach on an island or strip of land. As they view two more photos, they will see evidence of an oil spill. When they look back at the original photo, they will begin to see... Read more »
Created by: Crystal Young
Date Updated: May 31st, 2023
Humans Impact the Earth: How students can be part of the solution?
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: September 13th, 2024
Good to Be Bad
Students begin this lesson by analyzing a poem written by Wilfred Owen, a British soldier in WWI. Students then make observations and inferences about the technologies developed and used in WWI. Students view a short video about WWI technologies and complete Jigsaw readings in groups about the technologies.... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: November 12th, 2024
Technology in WWI and Its Effects
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 »
Created by: Brittany Bowens
Date Updated: June 27th, 2023
Biology
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
This lesson will introduce students to the impact of the Cold War within the United States. This lesson is meant to be taught after the WWII content was introduced to students and can be used in tandem with multiple cross-curricular lessons in LEARN. Using hands-on activities, discussions, and research,... Read more »
Created by: Kim Press
Date Updated: May 22nd, 2023
Effects of the Cold War
In this second lesson of "The K20 Chronicle" journalism unit, students will practice their active listening skills to determine what makes a good interview. After some collaboration time, students will apply what they have learned to conduct their own interviews of the school's seniors, which will be... Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: July 5th, 2024
How to Conduct an Interview
In this lesson, students will explore the way in which culture is connected to the foods people eat. Students will examine how their own favorite foods are connected to their cultural identities and read Amy Tan's short story "Fish Cheeks." Read more »
Created by: Lisa Loughlin
Date Updated: August 10th, 2023
Exploring Cultural Identity Through Food
In this visual arts lesson, students will analyze three pieces of art that were created collaboratively and then work in a small group to create a piece of art that is collaborative. Students will then gallery walk the created art pieces, leave feedback on each piece, and reflect on the process of creating... Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
Date Updated: July 15th, 2024
Collaboration in the Visual Arts
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 »
Created by: Patricia McDaniels-Gomez
Date Updated: April 17th, 2023
Tribal Governments
Students will begin this lesson by establishing their current understanding of diplomacy tactics by discussing Magnetic Statements independently and collaboratively. Students will learn about President Richard Nixon's diplomatic ventures by reading and annotating articles, then filling out a graphic... Read more »
Created by: Cody Sivertsen
Date Updated: January 10th, 2023
Nixon Diplomacy
In this lesson, students analyze the legislation enacted immediately following the Civil War and examine the effects that legislation had, especially on newly freed slaves. Students will then make connections between the harsh realities of the Reconstruction Era and more current Civil Rights issues... Read more »
Created by: Mariana DeLoera
Date Updated: May 18th, 2023
The Reconstruction Era
Geographical Landforms and Waterforms
This lesson is about physical geography in the United States and focuses on major landforms and their features. Students will start by reviewing what they already know about landforms with a fun game called Kahoot. They will then create a model of an assigned landform using paper mache. After that,... Read more »
Created by: Kallie Patrick
Date Updated: March 14th, 2024
Geographical Landforms and Waterforms
In this lesson, students evaluate the foreign policies of Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, and Woodrow Wilson. Students consider the dilemmas presidents faced and learn the motivations behind their diplomatic policies. The use of diplomacy is extended to the modern era through a video of how George... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: July 24th, 2023
Foreign Relations of Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson
In this lesson, students analyze and create multimedia messages to communicate the risks to life and property associated with severe weather and natural disasters. Students analyze informational graphics made by meteorologists to identify critical information and actions residents need to take in response... Read more »
Created by: Danny Mattox
Date Updated: April 17th, 2025
Using Multimedia to Communicate Weather Hazards
After watching an ICAP video with a tattoo artist, students explore the history of tattooing and weigh in on the debate: “Are tattoos art?” Following this, students learn about the history of temporary tattoos, and they design their own temporary tattoos and print them. Finally, students do a Gallery... Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
Date Updated: May 30th, 2023
Designing Temporary Tattoos
This lesson provides context for events leading up to World War ll by focusing on the leadership of four dictators: Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and Tojo. Students will evaluate how these four leaders contributed to the causes of the war and will later determine what enables leaders to obtain too much... Read more »
Created by: Cody Sivertsen
Date Updated: May 25th, 2023
Rise of World War II Dictators
In this lesson, students explore reasons for variance in character portrayal. Students begin by watching different interpretations of the same scene and then read an article and each select a monologue to research. Students use a random generator to change the context of their chosen monologues. Finally,... Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
Date Updated: October 4th, 2024
Character Portrayal on Stage Versus Film
Day and night, yin and yang, love and despair, Biggie and Tupac—all opposite yet equal counterparts to one another. In this lesson, students explore the reaction to the American Transcendental movement, dark romanticism. They Jigsaw informational texts of this subgenre and come to a consensus on what... Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: May 31st, 2023
Dark Romantic Author Nathaniel Hawthorne
This is a lesson used to provide context for the Holocaust prior to teaching about the involvement of the United States and other Allied nations in the Nuremberg Trials. Students will watch a short film about the Holocaust called "Pigeon" and comment about what they notice. Next, students will use a... Read more »
Created by: Becky Lockler
Date Updated: August 24th, 2023
Introduction to the Holocaust
In Part 2 of this lesson on federalism, students discuss a political cartoon, summarize governmental powers, and illustrate a given power. Learning will be extended by analyzing how the federal government influenced the states to change their drinking age. Finally, students complete a justified true... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: May 31st, 2023
Powers of the Federal Government and the States
In this lesson, students explore what a Faustian bargain is and examine examples in literature and pop culture. Students read, watch, listen, discuss, and write an argument as they work through the concept and its lasting legacy. Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: September 20th, 2023
Robert Johnson and Faustian Bargains
In this lesson, students will begin by analyzing two images depicting the Washita Massacre to generate hypotheses about what happened during this historical event. Next, students will read and analyze an article and complete a corresponding history frame graphic organizer. As an extension, students... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: September 25th, 2023
The Indian Wars in Indian Territory
In this lesson, students will explore the history of the loss of land for Native American tribes and how policies in place further contributed to the loss. Students explore the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887, the Curtis Act, and the Burke Act and their lasting impacts. To extend their learning, students... Read more »
Created by: Mariana DeLoera
Date Updated: October 25th, 2023
The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887
This lesson introduces students to the phenomenon of the bystander effect. They begin by examining situations in which the bystander effect has been known to occur. They also have an opportunity to analyze hypothetical scenarios and determine whether or not they are examples of the phenomenon. Students... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: October 14th, 2024
The Bystander Effect and How to Overcome It
Students will participate in a shared piano experience. Following this, they will read about the history of the piano, and learn some basic piano technique. Students will use this knowledge to make a song in BandLab and then share and react to each other's songs on SoundCloud. Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
Date Updated: November 3rd, 2023
The History and Technique of the Piano
Students learn about data encryption, why it is needed, and how it works by engaging in a range of group activities exploring cyber security. First, they attempt to pass along an unsecured message and learn how difficult it is to do so without some sort of plan. Then, they participate in a Jigsaw activity... Read more »
Created by: Teresa Lansford
Date Updated: February 8th, 2024
Encryption and Keys
In this lesson students will begin with an analysis of the popular image, “The Ultimate Confrontation,” and move into an exploration of lyrics that are found in popular protest music of the time. Students will learn about a variety of foreign and domestic events. As they learn about the artists’ backgrounds... Read more »
Created by: Kyra Carroll
Date Updated: April 4th, 2024
Exploring the influence of protest music on social change
Students explore the element of line by observing, sketching, and analyzing real-world examples. They begin by sketching lines found in a cog and identifying real-world examples through photography. In class, they analyze their findings, define key terminology, and discuss the artistic significance... Read more »
Created by: Patricia Turner
Date Updated: April 29th, 2025
Visual Arts: Exploring the Elements of Line in Art
How do we keep the library organized? In this lesson, students reflect on their prior knowledge of libraries and librarians using a KWL chart. Then, students practice shelving virtually before jigsawing a reading about Melvil Dewey and the Dewey Decimal System. After watching some videos on shelving,... Read more »
Created by: Jessica Armstrong
Date Updated: November 15th, 2024
Library Training
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 will explore how social groups, like generations, are defined by different characteristics and stereotypes. In groups, students will jigsaw readings to investigate these characteristics and stereotypes. Students will then create a mood board that represents one of the generations... Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: May 6th, 2025
Comparing and Contrasting the Generations
World War One Mental Illnesses of Soldiers
In this lesson students will consider what they already know about psychiatric disorders and how they affect individuals. They will analyze poetry, photos, and video clips of the effects that World War One had on the soldiers mentally and physically. Read more »
Created by: Kyra Carroll
Date Updated: March 31st, 2025
World War One Mental Illnesses of Soldiers
In this lesson, students will Jigsaw an article covering four different types of dragons in literature or mythology. Students will evaluate how the cultural and historical meaning of these dragons impact their use in literature. Students will then apply their knowledge of the historical meaning of these... Read more »
Created by: Polly Base
Date Updated: April 2nd, 2025
Historical Analysis
Themes of resilience, meaningful goal-setting, and prioritizing relationships are fundamental issues students will explore in this 5E lesson based on Randy Pausch’s inspirational memoir, The Last Lecture. Students will analyze how Pausch’s tone, language, sincerity, and anecdotes contribute to his... Read more »
Created by: Amanda Reeves
Date Updated: May 15th, 2025
Exploring Life Lessons Through The Last Lecture
In this grammar and punctuation lesson, students will explore the proper usage of brackets [ ], parentheses ( ), and ellipses … in writing. From ELA to math, science, and social studies, students will explore how brackets, parentheses, and ellipses are used across the curriculum. This exploration will... Read more »
Created by: Polly Base
Date Updated: March 18th, 2025
Special Grammar Ingredients: Brackets, Parentheses, and Ellipses
In this lesson, students practice their active listening skills and analyze the components of a good interview question. Students will work together to write interview questions and establish norms for the interview process. Then, students will conduct and record an interview of a classmate and review... Read more »
Created by: Michael Grubb
Date Updated: March 19th, 2025
How to Conduct an Interview
In this lesson, students use linear equations to compare and contrast living wage and minimum wage in their community. Through collaborative brainstorming, graphing linear equations, and analyzing local data from the MIT Living Wage Calculator, students apply algebraic concepts to understand financial... Read more »
Created by: Lydia Baker
Date Updated: May 12th, 2025
Comparing linear equations using income
In this lesson, students dive into the big question: Is music poetry? It starts with a fun sorting challenge where they guess whether lines come from poems or song lyrics. Then, they analyze real lyrics, debating what makes some feel more poetic than others. Through a hands-on annotation activity, they... Read more »
Created by: Kyri Hester
Date Updated: March 31st, 2025
Analyzing Lyrics Like Literature
Students take on the role of detectives and investigate the core beliefs, practices, and historical development of the three major monotheistic religions: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. During their investigation, students will uncover similarities and differences among these faiths, explore the... Read more »
Created by: Bradly Cusack
Date Updated: May 9th, 2025
Abrahamic Religions
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
Through small-group activities, research, and discussion, students will be exposed to a variety of careers, along with their average salaries, educational institutions, and postsecondary requirements. Students will learn about a variety of jobs in eight career clusters and the educational institutions'... Read more »
Created by: Patricia McDaniels-Gomez
Date Updated: September 22nd, 2023
In this session, students will learn the importance of the FAFSA and important information about filling out the FAFSA. Students will brainstorm ways to pay for college. Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: February 8th, 2024
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 lesson focuses on scaffolding the use of the Get a Life college and career simulation game in the classroom, specifically targeting career awareness in middle school students. Participants will play the game and experience classroom activities designed to process the gameplay and facilitate discussion... Read more »
Created by: Shayna Pond
Date Updated: September 19th, 2024
The Planning Campus Visits session focuses on participants exploring how to plan and prepare for a group campus visit. Participants will explore pre-planning information for a campus visit, simulate planning a campus visit through a local PSI, and reflect on important information needed to plan for... Read more »
Created by: Amber Stokes
Date Updated: May 12th, 2025
This session focuses on helping students and their families prepare for college by learning useful task management and organization skills. Participants will play a game where they simulate organizing their weekly calendar, then they will explore digital tools that can aid them in their task management,... Read more »
Created by: Jane Reynolds
Date Updated: June 11th, 2024
To promote diverse student collaboration, use a deck of cards to randomly divide students into groups. Read more »
Created by: Kelsey Willems
January 27th, 2025