Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
In this professional development session, participants discover how various instructional strategies can be used as authentic tools to create and facilitate student-centered lessons with the 5E Instructional Model. Individually, participants will choose a component of the 5E Instructional Model (Engage,... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: December 15th, 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 session provides an overview for staff at site recipients of 2018 GEAR UP projects. Through a series of activities, staff will be introduced to the K20 Center, understand what GEAR UP is, share the value of authentic teaching and learning, and also communicate the value of college-going culture. Read more »
Created by: Jane Baber
Date Updated: November 9th, 2021
The Creating 5E Lessons PD focuses on familiarizing participants with the 5E instructional model. The goal of the session is to immerse participants in an authentic 5E activity with an emphasis on each element of the 5E model. Participants will identify and describe the components of a 5E lesson and... Read more »
Created by: Robyn Hilger
Date Updated: March 7th, 2024
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
This session focuses on using strategies and questioning techniques that will actively engage young students in the learning process. Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: September 10th, 2024
Participants will develop a broader understanding of what makes real-world phenomena engaging, student-centered, relevant, and grade-appropriate. During this session, participants will explore the role of phenomena in lessons that may be delivered virtually or in blended learning environments. By centering... Read more »
Created by: Alonna Smith
Date Updated: July 22nd, 2024
This professional development session applies research-based practices to support the use of educational technology (EdTech) in the classroom. Through exploring Scratch coding on a Raspberry Pi, 3D printing with TinkerCAD, and Swivl robots, participants will connect EdTech to science and engineering... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: May 30th, 2024
In this GEAR UP Overview session, high school faculty and staff will be asked to identify the activities and experiences that students need to be prepared for a career and postsecondary education. They will also recognize how GEAR UP supports schools and their staff in creating these experiences. Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: February 28th, 2024
This activity aims to prepare faculty to design effective, technology-integrated project-based learning (PBL) experiences that leverage the opportunities afforded by a robust Makerspace or STEM lab. It is based on the "Design a Project" Project-Based Learning PD, which introduces participants to the... Read more »
Created by: Christina Naruszewicz
Date Updated: March 8th, 2024
This professional development session focuses on instilling an understanding of the framework of authentic learning through multiple tools, such as the 5E Model and LEARN Strategies, while keeping in mind the Oklahoma Academic Standards for Mathematics. The interactive session will give participants... Read more »
Created by: Brittany VanCleave
Date Updated: January 22nd, 2025
This professional development session focuses on authentic instruction and implementation of technology in the classroom. During this session, participants explore the K20 Center Mentoring Team’s materials, resources, and activities through a digital breakout session. Participants will have an opportunity... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: September 24th, 2024
Participants will actively engage in formative assessments and reflect on how formative assessment strategies can be used in their specific content area and with their students. Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: June 4th, 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
College and career readiness is a predictor of a student’s success in postsecondary endeavors. Critical thinking and analysis are two powerful skills that support college and career readiness. In this session, participants will be placed in the role of their students and be asked to explore and apply... Read more »
Created by: Patricia McDaniels-Gomez
Date Updated: August 23rd, 2024
This session provides an overview for staff at site recipients of the 2023 GEAR UP for LIFE project. The session aims to introduce staff to the K20 Center, explain what GEAR UP is, highlight the value of authentic teaching and learning, and communicate the value of college-going culture. Read more »
Created by: Sherry Franklin
Date Updated: December 15th, 2023
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
Students explore the top 10 benefits of continuing their education after high school through an interactive overview. Students are given a brief introduction into the seven year GEAR UP grant and take a class photo. Students also participate in student stations that include: a note to their future... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: April 5th, 2024
This 9th-grade campus visit focuses on increasing students’ postsecondary education (PSE) awareness and preparation. Students will recognize the factors that influence the accessibility of PSE options, identify solutions for funding PSE, and create actionable steps for increasing their chances of success... Read more »
Created by: Lacy Pennington
Date Updated: February 28th, 2024
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
Students will listen to an engaging speech and record their thoughts. Students will then choose a topic of their interest and write down all they know about the topic in a two-minute paper. Students will learn more about preparing a speech and discuss their learning with their peers. They will create... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: September 12th, 2024
In this first ACT prep reading activity, students focus on setting a goal for a future ACT. First, students review and reflect on the ACT process of superscoring. Then students review their existing reading scores before setting a goal to reach on the ACT and the reading test when they take the test... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: April 29th, 2025
In this English ACT prep activity, students review the vocabulary and roles of different paragraphs (i.e. introduction, body, and conclusion paragraphs), topic sentences, and thesis statements. Students then select the most appropriate transition words, identify roles of sentences, and apply this knowledge... Read more »
Created by: Patricia McDaniels-Gomez
Date Updated: May 1st, 2025
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
Students explore the top 10 benefits of continuing their education after high school through an interactive overview. Students are given a brief introduction into the 7-year GEAR UP grant, learning about the benefits of postsecondary education, writing letters to their future selves, signing a GEAR... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 25th, 2024
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
This activity simulates the process of enrolling in college courses. Students practice creating a course schedule, evaluating scenarios that impact scheduling, and analyzing course requirements. Participants compare the course schedule to a degree plan and create a semester calendar. This scheduling... Read more »
Created by: Amber Hale
Date Updated: March 31st, 2025
This lesson utilizes a current events video that allows students to investigate federal policies towards Native Americans. This lesson pairs well with discussions over the transformation of the West during the nineteenth century. To ensure the success of this lesson, students will need to have some... Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: November 12th, 2024
Native Americans in the U.S.
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 connect to the essential question, "What do the effects of life events look like?" through the skill of summarizing. To answer that question, students summarize a slam poem, a short story, and a recent Presidential speech. To make a personal connection to the skill of summarizing,... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: April 22nd, 2025
Summarizing
To assist students in their ability to determine a theme in literature, this lesson will introduce the concept of theme by using a children's book, although any piece of literature can be used with this lesson. Students will listen to a children's book, collaboratively distinguish between topic and... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: May 23rd, 2025
Themes in Literature
This lesson is designed to take place after completion of another K20 lesson, "Arguing With Evidence." Students will read an article from the New York Times and integrate knowledge of key terms to construct an argument based on a claim, evidence, and reasoning. Read more »
Created by: Keristy Nieto
Date Updated: June 28th, 2023
Part 2: Constructing Arguments
This lesson explores the stories in history that are often forgotten. Frequently, textbooks include the "winners" of history, but the stories and perspectives of the "losers" of history are left out. Students will explore those stories in this lesson and look at all sides of history in an attempt to... Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: September 18th, 2024
Teaching Perspective in the Social Studies Classroom
Students will investigate the similarity of reproduction, embryonic development, and DNA sequences to illustrate the indirect evidence for evolution. "How EGG-ceptional Are We?" is written for a general biology course. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 19th, 2024
Evolution: Embryonic Development
In this lesson, students explore cell organelles, their functions, and cell theory. Students begin by watching two videos and identifying analogies between them. They then research and identify the functions of cell organelles through a Concept Speed Dating activity. Next, students investigate the principles... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: April 21st, 2025
Intro to Cell Theory: Organelles
Elements of an Essay
In this lesson, students will engage in multiple independent and group strategies to both identify and analyze essential structural elements of an essay. By doing this, students will both practice and gain a clearer perspective of how to write with greater clarity and effectiveness. Read more »
Created by: Jane Baber
Date Updated: August 10th, 2023
This lesson should be taught as a culminating project after the novel "The Great Gatsby" has been read completely. In this lesson, students will explore the essential question "What can one's observations about a person reveal about their character?" The goal is to create a multimodal composition that... Read more »
Created by: Jane Baber
Date Updated: November 20th, 2024
The Great Gatsby and the Sense of Sight
This lesson provides an overview of the key events and concepts of the Vietnam War. Using hands-on activities and discussions, students are able to explore the vocabulary and multiple perspectives of the war. This lesson is meant to be taught after this era and subject have been introduced to students.... Read more »
Created by: Chelsee Wilson
Date Updated: November 14th, 2024
The Vietnam War
Using Sketchnotes to Analyze Mood and the Components of Author’s Style
In this lesson, students use sketching to help them analyze the mood and elements of the author's style of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: February 3rd, 2025
Using Sketchnotes to Analyze Mood and the Components of Author’s Style
Students will discover the three different types of x-intercepts that happen on polynomial functions. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: July 23rd, 2024
Polynomial Graphs
Rethinking the Words of the Declaration of Independence
Students, working in groups, use a "paired-text" strategy to analyze letters between Abigail and John Adams and the song "The Schuyler Sisters." Students create a "third text" by creating a hypothetical conversation between Abigail Adams and Angelica Schuyler regarding political and social issues facing... Read more »
Created by: Sarah Brewer
Date Updated: September 16th, 2024
Rethinking the Words of the Declaration of Independence
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 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
Through collaborative research, students will locate, evaluate, and create effective, engaging hooks for a variety of texts. Students will also write a personal narrative and share their openings with fellow classmates. While this lesson is currently aligned only to 9th grade standards, it would be... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 8th, 2024
Writing Personal Narratives
This lesson focused on the understanding of alternation of generations in plants, and began by examining non-vascular plants, including mosses and liverworts. It is intended for a botany or a phylogenic science class, and is not intended for introductory biology classes. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 28th, 2023
Alternation of Generations: Non-Vascular Plants
This is an introduction to karyotypes and what uses they have. Prerequisite knowledge would be basic genetic structures, such as chromatids, genes, and alleles. Using this lesson would lead nicely into having a discussion/next lesson about the ethics of gene therapy and CRISPR in humans. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 28th, 2023
Karyotype for Chromosomal Disorders
Students will employ a variety of reading strategies to analyze the poem, "The New Colossus." Their analysis will determine the author's perspective. This lesson also offers technology options for teachers, who may choose to use a Kindle E-reader, Google Doc, or Google Expeditions. While this lesson... Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: May 30th, 2025
Determining Author's Perspective
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
Observing a polyurea-coated watermelon dropping from a 148-foot drop as a phenomenon, students will develop an understanding of how the coating is formed via a chemical reaction and what properties make the substance so durable. Through models and observational data, students will explain how the molecular... Read more »
Created by: Heather Shaffery
Date Updated: April 21st, 2025
Chemical Properties and Reactions
Students will make observations of various plants and animals to determine how their environments meet their needs. They will then decide which animal would make the best class pet and design a living environment for that animal. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: March 4th, 2021
Ecosystems
In this lesson, students will look at phenomena using a weather simulation in order to learn more about descriptive statistics and measures of central tendency. The lesson focuses on extreme weather in different parts of the United States. Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: November 9th, 2022
Measures of Central Tendency
This lesson uses mathematical manipulatives to engage students in learning how to use the order of operations for finding solutions to simple expressions. Students will explore concepts by playing three games to work with order of operations and to help develop computational fluency. Read more »
Created by: Cacey Wells
Date Updated: February 11th, 2025
Order of Operations
Literacy Practices
How do you make sense of what you read? In this lesson focused on literacy practices, students engage in a variety of reading strategies. Students consider their reading processes before discovering annotation techniques, and then read and annotate a short story and craft a multimodal response. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: February 11th, 2025
In this lesson, students will learn about the concepts of growth mindset and neuroplasticity, how to identify their own mindsets, and methods to change them. Students will play through Advance U: The TALENT Machine, a digital game-based learning (DGBL) module, to explore these concepts in an interactive... Read more »
Created by: William Thompson
Date Updated: June 18th, 2024
Mindset and Neuroplasticity
In this lesson, students toss balls of trash, or "trashballs," into the trashcan, recording their shooting percentage at various distances from the basket. With distances measured and percentages figured, students create a scatter plot and a line of best fit to make a linear model of the shooting skills... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 17th, 2022
Scatter Plots and Lines of Best Fit
Students will investigate animal behavior by conducting experiments to see how worms respond to stimuli. Read more »
Created by: Danny Mattox
Date Updated: August 19th, 2024
Animal Behavior
This lesson invites students to think about what they know about nouns, verbs, adjectives, and other components of a sentence. Students study a picture prompt and work as a class to compose sentences describing it. Then, students practice diagramming their sentence by drawing color-coded "train cars"... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: May 29th, 2025
Composing Grammatically Correct Sentences
In this financial literacy lesson, students will explore the need to plan for retirement and discuss the amount of money that will be needed to retire comfortably. Students will investigate traditional ways to save for retirement, including personal savings, Social Security, mutual funds, 401K, IRAs,... Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: January 24th, 2023
Standard 6: Planning for Retirement
In this lesson on how plants grow and develop, students will research specific plant behaviors and perform classroom investigations to learn how the environment affects plant growth. Students will focus on using evidence to explain their ideas and make predictions. (Funding provided by USDA Project... Read more »
Created by: Heather Shaffery
Date Updated: May 30th, 2025
Growth and Development of Organisms
This lesson guides students to apply Newton's third law of motion and has them find solutions to problems associated with collisions. During the lesson, students observe various forms of collisions, examine and explain evidence that supports Newton's third law of motion, and identify real-world problems... Read more »
Created by: Alonna Smith
Date Updated: January 24th, 2025
Forces and Motion
Students develop questions about the phenomenon of wolf reintroduction into Yellowstone National Park. They explore published data to explain how different organisms interact to change the entire park ecosystem. Using this data, students take the role of a community member to engage in a role-play and... Read more »
Created by: Heather Shaffery
Date Updated: December 19th, 2024
Ecosystem Interactions
Students will construct a watershed and discover how water flow impacts humans. IMPORTANT NOTE: Parts of the lesson are adjusted to meet each grade level's specific standard, so be sure to do the parts that correlate with your grade level. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 25th, 2020
Earth and Human Activity
This lesson is the first in a series of lessons, Wave Inventions, related to light and sound waves and inventors. In this lesson, using household objects, students will plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials produce sound. The lesson will culminate with students... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 30th, 2020
Sound
In this lesson, students use their prior knowledge to identify shapes and their attributes. "What Shape is it Anyway?" provides students with ample group discussion as well as individual assessment. The end goal of this lesson is to have students correctly identify, sort, and explain their understanding... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 4th, 2021
Shapes
Students will use protractors to discover, identify, and define angles and lines. Using vocabulary developed through this activity, students will identify different types of quadrilaterals. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 14th, 2020
Angles and Quadrilaterals
In this lesson, students discover what tax dollars are used for and evaluate which tax-funded community services they feel are important. These services include libraries, police and fire departments, roads, water/sanitation services, and schools. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 21st, 2020
Taxes and the Community Services They Provide
In this lesson, students learn to compare and contrast geographical features found among different regions in the United States. Students will then apply these skills by comparing their home state's features with those of another state in the nation. Read more »
Created by: Delia Gietzen
Date Updated: September 12th, 2024
In this lesson, students will explore and explain why plants lean toward a window and discuss other adaptations of plants. This lesson can take up to six weeks if you choose to study the full plant growth cycle with students. Read more »
Created by: Delia Gietzen
Date Updated: April 2nd, 2021
Plant Adaptations, Growth, and Tropisms
Computer programming helps young learners to understand how to think things through step-by-step, solve problems, and make adjustments based on feedback. There are many great resources now for both online and offline coding and using algorithms to solve problems for learners of all ages. These lessons... Read more »
Created by: Teresa Lansford
Date Updated: November 19th, 2024
Programming and Algorithms
During this interactive science lesson, students will learn about the patterns of the moon and lunar phases. Over the course of one month, students will observe the moon, look for patterns, and make predictions about the changes in the moon each night. Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: May 5th, 2023
Phases of the Moon
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
Students will investigate the similarity of reproduction, embryonic development, and DNA sequences to illustrate the indirect evidence for evolution. "How EGG-ceptional Are We?" has been scaffolded to AP Biology. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: November 16th, 2022
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
In this lesson, students investigate the phenomenon of differences in water clarity among four Oklahoma lakes. Students investigate how local environmental conditions and the survival strategies and growth of phytoplankton (algae) affect water clarity. Students then design and conduct experiments that... Read more »
Created by: Heather Shaffery
Date Updated: April 8th, 2025
Nutrients, Genetics, and Plant Growth
Students will explore the effects of an increase in nitrogen and phosphorus in aquatic ecosystems. They will collect data from an algae growth investigation and complete a reading about human-produced nutrient inputs. Using these sources of evidence, students will develop a causal explanation of the... Read more »
Created by: Heather Shaffery
Date Updated: January 31st, 2025
Effects of Disturbance on Ecosystems
This lesson serves as an introduction to the novel "Tangerine" by Edward Bloor. The lesson addresses the theme of persistence in the novel by making predictions about what struggles the main character will come across and continually addressing these predictions while reading the book. The lesson's... Read more »
Created by: Susan Mudrick
Date Updated: February 26th, 2025
Character Development
In this lesson, students investigate how digital and analog waves carry information by developing models and relating these to information transmission. This lesson is Part 3 of the "Beyond the Slinky®" series on waves and their properties. Read more »
Created by: Heather Shaffery
Date Updated: December 6th, 2024
Information Transmission Through Waves
This is the second lesson in a series called, "Survival." In an effort to understand animal characteristics and adaptations, this lesson invites students to make observations about a variety of animals, participate in a modified four corners activity, and create a class Anchor Chart. Learning is extended... Read more »
Created by: Patricia Turner
Date Updated: May 31st, 2023
Animal Adaptations
In this lesson, students use an online fossil database to explore changes in life forms throughout the history of life on Earth. Students also make predictions about environmental changes and how those changes affect organisms living in different environments. Students then analyze anatomical similarities... Read more »
Created by: Alonna Smith
Date Updated: August 10th, 2022
Evidence of Common Ancestry and Diversity
Sometimes, we know a great deal about the meaning and inspiration behind a work of art. In many cases, the artist has left information about their art in an artist's statement. Sometimes though, it is up to the viewer to construct their own meaning of a work of art, regardless of what information about... Read more »
Created by: Jane Baber
Date Updated: August 9th, 2024
Ekphrastic Poetry
In this lesson, students will explore the reasons for imperialism in Africa and the effects of colonization on the African continent. Students will analyze maps, images, and political cartoons. They also will watch a video and read an article to understand how imperialism affected the continent of Africa... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: April 18th, 2023
Imperialism in Africa
In this introductory lesson to the "Lord of the Flies" unit of study, students learn what a microcosm is, what its significance to this story is, and how to build a microcosm of their own. The author's use of the microcosm to symbolize human nature sets the stage for the unit and focuses on author William... Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: November 14th, 2024
I'm a Survivor
Beginning just before students read "Tulsa Burning" by Anna Myers, this companion lesson provides a contextual understanding of people, places, and power in the Tulsa Race Massacre. In the first of the series of lessons, students will be introduced to the concept of a flash point in science and compare... Read more »
Created by: Nicole Watkins
Date Updated: February 21st, 2024
Tulsa Race Massacre
Equality, Fairness, and the Amendments
Students will read and analyze the short story, "Harrison Bergeron," by American writer Kurt Vonnegut. Students will consider how the amendments to the constitution promote equality. They will discuss different claims, which support the amendments, and discuss evidence or lack of evidence to explain... Read more »
Created by: Polly Base
Date Updated: November 26th, 2024
Equality, Fairness, and the Amendments
In this introductory lesson to the Connecting Social Issues and Human Health Inequities unit, students will explore asthma through a variety of station activities, videos, readings, and charts. In doing so, students will better understand what occurs in the respiratory system before, during, and after... Read more »
Created by: Alonna Smith
Date Updated: July 12th, 2023
Understanding Asthma
In this lesson, students will be introduced to imaginary numbers and their history. Students will learn how to simplify the square root of a negative number and how to simplify i to a power. Before beginning this lesson, students need to (1) know how to simplify the square root of a whole number and... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: September 10th, 2024
Understanding and Simplifying Imaginary Numbers
This is the first lesson in the "What Is a Wave?" unit. Students will begin by recalling information they already know about waves. They will explore movement with springs to learn about and identify types of waves. In groups, students will create anchor charts with key concepts and examples of waves.... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: June 5th, 2023
London Bridge Is Falling Down
Students will model their writing using mentor sentences and use the mentor sentences to understand how and why authors use commas to make their sentences clear and grammatically correct. Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: August 29th, 2024
Avoiding Comma Blunders
in this lessons students explore and do an investigation to find out if plants need water or sunlight to grow. Students plan and conduct an experiment collaboratively to produce data to serve as the basis for evidence to answer the question. The lesson duration is 2 -4 days, plus more for sprouting... Read more »
Created by: Gina Fisher
Date Updated: May 14th, 2021
Plants depend on water and light to grow.
In this third lesson of the "Lord of the Flies" unit, students research the history of masks across cultures. Students then create a mask that represents a character from the story, using textual evidence to support their choices. Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: June 20th, 2023
Behind the Mask
This lesson aims to help students develop an understanding of zoonotic diseases. In this lesson, students will explore how zoonotic diseases spread. Read more »
Created by: Mariah Warren
Date Updated: March 13th, 2023
Zoonotic Diseases
In this lesson, students examine a map of Oklahoma and complete a scavenger hunt to find objects on the map. Students learn important map-related vocabulary and extend their learning by creating a map of the classroom. Learning is assessed when students answer a reflection question. Read more »
Created by: Chrissy Waldhoer
Date Updated: March 7th, 2022
Elements of a Map
In this lesson, students will explore how communities of living things are connected within an ocean ecosystem. They will create an ocean food web and learn how even small changes can impact an entire ecosystem. Read more »
Created by: Elizabeth Rader
Date Updated: August 13th, 2021
Investigating Interconnectedness in Ocean Ecosystems
In this lesson, students use the Desmos Studio graphing calculator to explore how changing the y-intercept or slope of a line affects the graph. They will find real items to serve as examples of lines with defined slopes and use Desmos Studio to find the linear functions that represent those items.... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: May 12th, 2025
Slope-Intercept Form
In this third lesson of the What Is a Wave? unit, students will experiment with long springs and whirly tubes as well as participate in a guided inquiry activity on constructive and destructive interference. Students will be assessed by explaining true or false statements. Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: June 1st, 2023
Galloping Gertie
In this lesson, students will recall properties of exponents and how to simplify square roots and cube roots. Then, students will learn how to write radical expressions as expressions with rational exponents and vice versa. Students will use this knowledge to simplify expressions using either approach.... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: November 25th, 2024
Rewriting Rational Exponents and Radicals
In this lesson, students will analyze the impact of the Treaty of Versailles. Students will extend their learning by analyzing an article about German reparations. Student learning will be assessed by completing a Claim, Evidence, Reasoning response to a question about the treaty's impact on Germany. Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: June 22nd, 2023
Evaluating the Treaty of Versailles
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
How to prevent the spread of germs
In this lesson, students will make observations on daily routines to understand how healthy practices can prevent the spread of germs. They will explore how "sticky" germs can be and how easily germs can be transferred by participating in a simulation using flour or glitter. The book, "No More Germs... Read more »
Created by: Patricia Turner
Date Updated: May 31st, 2023
How to prevent the spread of germs
In this lesson, students examine the nature and function of international trade agreements in the world economy. Through engaging in an interactive story, students learn many important concepts regarding world trade. In addition, students explore both the benefits and drawbacks of trade agreements through... Read more »
Created by: Cody Sivertsen
Date Updated: August 29th, 2024
International Trade Agreements
In this lesson, students make connections between severe weather events and human behavior. Students will play through AWARE: Advanced Weather Awareness & Response Education, a digital game-based learning (DGBL) module; explore population growth data; and research the economic sectors and natural resources... Read more »
Created by: Heather Shaffery
Date Updated: July 3rd, 2024
The Influence of Natural Hazards on Human Activity
In this lesson, students learn about primary sources by creating their own "Show and Tell Museum." They will practice reading and interpreting artifacts from their classmates' lives. They will then apply this knowledge to primary sources from Oklahoma's Early Native American tribes. Read more »
Created by: Elizabeth Rader
Date Updated: May 31st, 2023
Read and Interpret Primary Sources
In this lesson, students will create a composition using a limited number of musical elements by selecting from a menu of pitches, dynamics, rhythms, and symbols. Students will then reflect on their experience and engage in a discussion concerning the benefits and drawbacks of musical limitations in... Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
Date Updated: June 6th, 2024
Embracing Musical Limitations in Songwriting
In this lesson, students will examine and explore examples and non-examples of MLA formatting in order to come to a clear understanding or correct citation. Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: June 21st, 2023
Citing Sources and MLA Formatting
In this second lesson of a media production unit, students interact with sound equipment, such as an audio mixer, subwoofer, loudspeaker, and a microphone, to determine the purpose of each piece of equipment. Students interact with media equipment, view a video about how to set up a stage and take notes,... Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
Date Updated: July 10th, 2024
Media Production, Lesson 2
In this lesson, students will examine President Hoover's response to the Great Depression and how that affected the presidential election of 1932. Students will analyze videos, Great Depression slang, and a reading to determine the reasons that Hoover did not win reelection for president. Students will... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: September 7th, 2023
The Great Depression and President Hoover
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
This lesson engages students in the concept of money and counting money. Students participate in hands-on activities that allow them to visualize and master the skill. Read more »
Created by: Maria Montano
Date Updated: May 23rd, 2022
Counting Money
In most first-grade classrooms, students are introduced to various styles of writing, including "How To" writing. In this lesson, students will begin by sequencing story ideas and orally explaining how they ordered the steps. Throughout the lesson, transitional words will be introduced to help students... Read more »
Created by: Melissa Corn
Date Updated: October 16th, 2024
The Importance of Story Sequence
Students will explore inputs and outputs of trigonometric functions and use this relationship to identify the need for inverse trigonometric functions to find an unknown angle measure. Students will then watch a video of a civil engineer share how he uses right triangle trigonometry and apply their... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: May 26th, 2023
Inverse Trigonometry: Introduction
In this visual arts lesson, students will look at examples of photo touch-ups, restoration, and mash-ups. They will practice by attempting to make a mash-up with provided practice images. As a class, students will discuss what they tried to do with the software to make it work, share any tricks learned,... Read more »
Created by: Shayna Pond
Date Updated: May 30th, 2023
Digital Image Editing, Collage Art, and Fair Use
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 will learn how to design their own resumes and prepare for job interviews. They will begin by thinking about what they already know about resumes. Next, they will review examples of resumes before writing their own based on common descriptions of jobs for which students typically... Read more »
Created by: Will Markham
Date Updated: April 17th, 2025
Resume Creation and Interview Skills
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: February 3rd, 2025
Translations: Seminole Patchwork
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
Changes in the Earth Over Time: What’s the Evidence?
During this lesson, students are introduced to the significance of fossils in understanding past living organisms, gathering evidence about prehistoric life, and providing valuable insights into the Earth's historical environment and its transformations over time. As students progress through Discovery... Read more »
Created by: Patricia Turner
Date Updated: August 14th, 2024
Changes in the Earth Over Time: What’s the Evidence?
Fire Ecology as a Management Tool for a Tallgrass Prairie Ecosystem
In this lesson, students explore the Tallgrass Prairie ecosystem and fire ecology as a management tool. They evaluate the prairie ecosystem's response to the impact of burning. Read more »
Created by: Teresa Randall
Date Updated: August 29th, 2024
Fire Ecology as a Management Tool for a Tallgrass Prairie Ecosystem
In this U.S. government lesson, students will explore limitations to the Constitutional right to free speech by analyzing court cases that use the "clear and present danger" precedent. They will do so by learning about the Supreme Court case Gitlow v. New York and analyzing other cases that similarly... Read more »
Created by: Mariana DeLoera
Date Updated: August 14th, 2023
Gitlow v. New York
Students will prove the reciprocal, quotient, and Pythagorean trigonometric identities. They will then use those identities to practice simplifying and verifying trigonometric identities during this spy-themed lesson. This lesson is an introduction to identities and is the first lesson of four in a... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: April 9th, 2024
Reciprocal, Quotient, and Pythagorean Identities
Changes in the Earth Over Time: What’s the Evidence?
In this lesson, students learn how geological time can be predicted by examining strata layers and fossil evidence. They explore different rock strata and fossils, making comparisons and inferences. Using provided specimens, students determine which species existed during various time periods in Earth's... Read more »
Created by: Danny Mattox
Date Updated: August 15th, 2024
Changes in the Earth Over Time: What’s the Evidence?
In this lesson, students examine how Einstein’s spacetime is warped by mass, and they learn to use this idea to explain how gravity holds the solar system together. Students investigate spacetime being warped by using a Fabric of Spacetime Table and then apply Newton’s Law of Gravitation to derive the... Read more »
Created by: Kevin Warren
Date Updated: February 15th, 2024
Universal Law of Gravity
In this unit, students will learn that electrons in atoms and molecules absorb visible light. When light passes through various media and then through a diffraction gradient, it produces absorbance spectra. The produced absorption spectra are unique to the elements that interact with the light. These... Read more »
Created by: Chris Yohn
Date Updated: April 11th, 2025
Absorption Spectra
This is one of several lessons that examines Supreme Court decisions that have clarified individual rights under the First Amendment. Students will examine the events that led up to the case of West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette. They will analyze its implications for the freedoms of... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: May 1st, 2025
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
In this lesson, students investigate what factors affect the force of gravity and use plotted data to determine graphically how each variable is related to the force of gravity. Students review their understanding of gravity and how to linearize a set of data. Students use a gravity simulation to collect... Read more »
Created by: Kevin Warren
Date Updated: February 8th, 2024
Universal Law of Gravity
In this lesson, students first review the principle of superposition of waves and constructive and destructive interference with slinkies. Students then investigate diffraction and how different variables change the interference pattern in the double slit experiment using the Wave Interference Phet... Read more »
Created by: Kevin Warren
Date Updated: March 1st, 2024
Quantum Mechanics
In this lesson, students learn about the surprising results of the double slit experiment showing that particles have wavelike behavior through watching a Dr. Quantum video and through the PhET Quantum Wave Interference simulation. Students are split into groups to watch curated videos and create slideshow... Read more »
Created by: Kevin Warren
Date Updated: September 19th, 2024
Quantum Mechanics
This is part 1 of a 3 part lesson. In this lesson, students learn the role of the balanced chemical equation in establishing the stoichiometric relationship between different substances involved in a chemical reaction. This lesson encourages students to reflect on how the coefficients in the balanced... Read more »
Created by: Brittany Bowens
Date Updated: March 6th, 2025
Stoichiometry_ Mole to Mole Ratio
This is part 2 of a 3-part lesson. In this lesson, students will reflect on the purpose and significance of stoichiometry in understanding the quantitative aspects of a chemical reaction. This lesson encourages students to think about how stoichiometry calculations can provide insights into the relative... Read more »
Created by: Brittany Bowens
Date Updated: March 6th, 2025
Stoichiometry_Grams to Grams
This lesson explores a couple of Supreme Court decisions that have specified individual rights of due process under the Constitution. Students will examine the events that led up to the cases of Gideon v. Wainwright and Miranda v. Arizona by analyzing portions of the 5th, 6th, and 14th amendments. They... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: September 18th, 2023
Gideon v. Wainwright & Miranda v. Arizona
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
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
U.S. Constitution and Equal Protection of Laws
In this lesson, students will learn how the Fourteenth Amendment impacted the history of civil rights in the United States within a focused context. Students will discover the origins, significance, and lasting effects of the 14th Amendment by examining a collection of primary and secondary sources.... Read more »
Created by: Tanner Lusher
Date Updated: February 21st, 2024
U.S. Constitution and Equal Protection of Laws
The Civil Rights Movement
In this lesson, students learn about the Little Rock Nine, other monumental moments from the Civil Rights Movement, and their impact on music culture. By examining the historical inspiration behind Beyoncé’s rendition of the song "Blackbird," students analyze a speaker’s impact on the meaning of a text,... Read more »
Created by: Lisa Loughlin
Date Updated: July 8th, 2024
The Civil Rights Movement
This lesson on comma usage focuses on equipping students with a solid understanding of comma rules and their practical application in writing. Through interactive activities and examples, students will learn how to use commas to separate items in a list, set off introductory elements, join independent... Read more »
Created by: Polly Base
Date Updated: October 2nd, 2024
Comma Usage
In this lesson, students will learn how graphs are used to analyze cost of production in business. Students complete a card sort to engage with important terms and use the WIS-WIM strategy to analyze line graphs. Students then learn how double bar graphs are used to compare fixed and variable costs... Read more »
Created by: Louisa Onyekuru
Date Updated: April 1st, 2025
Business Management and Cost of Production
In this technology lesson, students will explore the science of laser cutters. Students will view a variety of videos on lasers, work in stations to develop Frayer Models, and build a shared definition of how a laser functions. The lesson concludes with students developing a product pitch for something... Read more »
Created by: Kelsey Willems
Date Updated: March 6th, 2025
Introduction to Lasers and Laser Cutters
In this lesson, students will explore the culture of the Osage tribe and their ribbonwork. Students will apply what they have learned about math and indigenous cultures to create their own ribbonwork design and demonstrate their understanding of reflections. Prerequisite knowledge for this lesson includes... Read more »
Created by: Michell Eike
Date Updated: February 28th, 2025
Reflections and Osage Ribbonwork
In this lesson, students delve into the fascinating field of forensic entomology by engaging in hands-on and reflective activities designed to spark curiosity, deepen understanding, and apply critical thinking skills. After reviewing the life cycle of flies, students will act as forensic investigators... Read more »
Created by: Lorie Marler
Date Updated: April 2nd, 2025
Forensic Entomology
Mammalian Characteristics and Adaptations for Survival
How have mammals adapted to unique environments, thereby ensuring their survival? How do mammalian body systems work together to maintain stability in response to environmental changes? In this lesson, students will investigate mammalian characteristics and adaptations to diverse habitats and traits... Read more »
Created by: Donna Wilson
Date Updated: May 2nd, 2025
Mammalian Characteristics and Adaptations for Survival
In this introductory lesson, students will learn the three fundamental elements of camera operation: aperture, shutter speed, and ISO, which are key to achieving proper exposure in photography. The lesson will explain how aperture controls the amount of light entering the lens and how it affects depth... Read more »
Created by: Chris Larcade
Date Updated: April 30th, 2025
Camera Operations
In this session, participants will learn about the benefits of postsecondary education scholarships, identify potential scholarships that could benefit their student(s), and review the requirements for the FAFSA. Read more »
Created by: Allie Bishop
Date Updated: March 12th, 2024