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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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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 »
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 »
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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 »
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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
"The White Man’s Burden" by Rudyard Kipling
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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 »
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This lesson examines key terrorist attacks on U.S. soil and identifies how the Patriot Act was created to prevent terrorism. Read more »
The Patriot Act of 2001
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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 »
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Discovering the Relationship Between Overcrowding and the Spread of Diseases
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Students will examine the black plague and understand how it was spread and how it could have been prevented. Read more »
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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 »
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Students will build 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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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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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 »
Analyzing Information, Media, and Validity
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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 »
The Great Gatsby and the Sense of Smell
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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 »
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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 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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 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 »
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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 »
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In this lesson, students will learn to compare anatomical similarities and differences between organisms and explain the relationship between organisms based on homologous structures. They begin by reading a recent research article on either parrots or penguins. Then, students learn about the ancient... Read more »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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 »
The Foundations of Sociology
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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 »
Ethics in Scientific Research
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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 »
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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 »
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Humans Impact the Earth: How students can be part of the solution?
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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 »
Humans Impact the Earth: How students can be part of the solution?
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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 »
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