Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
To support students' ability to write persuasive essays, this lesson will scaffold aspects of argumentation through paragraph development. Students will first review the use of evidence and reasoning to support a claim by performing a CER analysis of a comic strip. Next, students will work both collaboratively... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 5th, 2025
Writing Paragraphs With Evidence and Reasoning
In this lesson, students will use various strategies while defining the social contract and learning the origin of this political idea. Students will use instructional strategies to relate the ideas upon which our government was founded and research whether or not we are truly an equal society "with... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: August 5th, 2025
U.S. Government
Students will investigate the water cycle and how water flows through ecosystems. Students will use statistical analysis and mathematical reasoning to develop models that can determine the factors that contribute to a tree’s influence on matter and energy cycles within an ecosystem. Students will apply... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: July 30th, 2025
Plant Transpiration and the Water Cycle
In this lesson, students listen to a song while completing a painting activity. They collaborate to paint a list of descriptive words on their canvases based on the song. Considering the song lyrics as poetry, students analyze the song, focusing on descriptive language and sensory details. Students... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: April 22nd, 2025
Communication: Using Descriptive Language
Students explore causes for the decline in number of giant catfish of the Mekong River system and interpret a set of data taken from 2003 regarding the size and mass of catfish that were caught and tagged. They will display their knowledge in the form of tables, graphs, and pictures. Read more »
Created by: Danny Mattox
Date Updated: April 3rd, 2025
Tracking Population Decline Using Biology and Algebra
Students will be able to explain the fundamental concepts involved in electrostatics, such as charge, friction, conservation of charge, laws of attraction, and Coulomb’s Law. Read more »
Created by: Danny Mattox
Date Updated: June 18th, 2025
Electrostatics
Science
Students explore water erosion and investigate erosion and weathering in different types of soil. Funding provided by Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grant no. 2013-69002-23146 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: July 23rd, 2025
Science
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: July 30th, 2025
International Trade Agreements
Would you like to have a career that lets you help others and make a difference? Social workers have been doing this for more than 100 years, and it continues to be a much-needed job. In this activity, students read about the skills needed to be a social worker and the different career pathways available... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: April 23rd, 2025
Participants will experience a workshop session that provides the fundamentals of Essential Questions. They will then discover how they can use Essential Questions as a focus when lesson planning by creating their own content-specific Essential Questions. Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Williams
Date Updated: June 4th, 2024
This session engages participants in a model learning activity that showcases how specific technologies that are typically teacher-centered can be authentically used to develop student-centered learning environments. Participants will explore interactive technologies such as Chromebooks and touchscreen... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: July 23rd, 2025
This professional learning activity asks participants to reflect on the importance of the inquiry cycle. Participants will examine a school data case study, take on different lenses for interpreting data, and explore what research tells us about the inquiry cycle and how it can support schools in making... Read more »
Created by: Shayna Pond
Date Updated: March 28th, 2024
This session will invite participants to consider how they can integrate educational games into the classroom to enhance student learning and engagement. They will have an opportunity to try out “Operation: ELECT,” a game developed by K20 in which students develop computational thinking skills by role-playing... Read more »
Created by: Jared Whaley
Date Updated: June 26th, 2024