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: September 10th, 2020
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 7th, 2023
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: September 14th, 2020
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 7th, 2023
Participants will gain a deeper understanding of embedded literacy through the modeling of interdisciplinary instructional strategies. Participants are asked to: a) evaluate five components of literacy, b) explore various strategies for embedding literacy in various subject areas, and c) reflect upon... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 13th, 2020
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 »
Created by: Keristy Nieto
Date Updated: June 26th, 2023
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: November 4th, 2021
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: October 21st, 2021
Workshop offered to all 10th to 12th-grade students interested in understanding the ACT and increasing their composite scores. Students engage in specific content through instructional strategies for seven two-hour ACT prep sessions. These research-based instructional strategy examples are designed... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: July 27th, 2021
Workshop offered to all 10th to 12th-grade students interested in understanding the ACT and increasing their composite scores. Students engage in specific content through instructional strategies for seven two-hour ACT prep sessions. These research-based instructional strategy examples are designed... Read more »
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: August 4th, 2021
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: February 23rd, 2022
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: October 29th, 2021
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 »
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: February 16th, 2022
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 and extract the... Read more »
Created by: Brittany Bowens
Date Updated: February 14th, 2022
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
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 explore projectile motion using Newton's first law of motion. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 4th, 2022
Newton's First Law of Motion
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: May 31st, 2022
"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: June 22nd, 2023
Intermolecular Forces
This Oklahoma/U.S. history lesson provides students with engaging audio, visual, and textural sources to examine the environmental conditions of the Dust Bowl alongside FDR’s response in his Dust Bowl Fireside Chat. Students engage in the intellectual work of the historian as they evaluate primary... Read more »
Dust Bowl
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
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 »
Created by: Clayton Canon
Date Updated: May 27th, 2022
push/pull factors
This lesson focuses on the daily experiences of enslaved men and women in the antebellum South—their living and working conditions, family life, and treatment by slaveholders. The lesson compares how this experience is represented in the students' textbook versus in the primary sources of slave narratives.... Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: June 22nd, 2023
Antebellum Era
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: June 12th, 2023
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: May 5th, 2023
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
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 lesson references the 2019 "Alienstock" phenomenon to engage students in exploring, assessing, and drawing their own conclusions about the validity of various media sources. Students will work independently and in groups to compare two news segments about the existence of aliens, read and evaluate... Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: June 12th, 2023
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: June 21st, 2023
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
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: William Thompson
Date Updated: April 6th, 2023
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: April 17th, 2023
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 and will also examine the immigrant experience upon arriving in the United States, including the... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 13th, 2022
U.S. History
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 »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: July 5th, 2022
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: February 27th, 2023
Perspectives in The Civil War
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 »
Created by: Teresa Randall
Date Updated: November 4th, 2022
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: June 5th, 2023
What Makes Us Clique?
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 »
Created by: Kristen Sublett
Date Updated: May 31st, 2022
Monotheistic Religions
Colonial History
This lesson compares the various roles that colonists played in the Southern Colonies. Students will begin by examining the economy of the Southern Colonies. They will then compare various roles within the Southern Colonies and will write a RAFT strategy prompt to share what they learned about the colonists. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 17th, 2020
Colonial History
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
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: June 22nd, 2023
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: June 14th, 2023
Characters' Differing Perspectives
Students explore the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. through some of his most prominent words. Read more »
The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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: October 28th, 2022
Photosynthesis and Coral Reef Health
In this lesson, students are introduced to Ralph Ellison, a celebrated Oklahoman, and the influence of his literary achievements. Students will analyze an excerpt from Ellison's most notable work, Invisible Man, to explore major themes in Ellison's writing and make connections between those themes... Read more »
Contributions of Influential Oklahomans
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
In this lesson, students will analyze primary source documents to understand the motives of those who supported, opposed, or chose to remain neutral prior to the American Revolution. Students will apply their knowledge of colonists' motivations to open-ended scenarios and then write from the perspective... Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: April 17th, 2023
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 rather to supplement them and raise awareness of ethical issues and racism in science and medicine. Read more »
Created by: Alonna Smith
Date Updated: June 7th, 2022
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: August 10th, 2023
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?