Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
In this session, participants will reinforce their understanding of authentic teaching and learning using the instructional strategy QC2E (question, claim, evidence, and explanation). They also will work in content areas to create meaningful questions related to their disciplines. Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Hawkins
Date Updated: January 23rd, 2024
In this session, participants will gain a deeper understanding of meaningful Bell Ringers through the modeling of interdisciplinary instructional strategies. Participants are asked to a) address superficial uses of Bell Ringers and more meaningful uses of Bell Ringers, b) actively engage in authentic... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: March 11th, 2024
Productive student conversations are a vital part of deep, flexible understanding of content. During this session, participants will increase their awareness of productive and scaffolded student conversations in the classroom or within a synchronous online learning platform, such as Summit or Odyssey. Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: February 22nd, 2024
This PD introduces the use of Swivl™ robots in the classroom. Participants will go through the process of setting up the bot, recording video, uploading video to the cloud, and accessing previously saved videos. Additionally, participants will discuss possible uses of Swivl bots both for instructional... Read more »
Created by: Bradly Cusack
Date Updated: May 21st, 2024
When a work environment provides agency, social support, and opportunities for professional growth, these factors stimulate employees to become more competent and engaged in their work. This professional learning session is part of a series that explores the eight aspects of organizational culture and... Read more »
Created by: Shayna Pond
Date Updated: June 1st, 2023
When a work environment provides agency, social support, and opportunities for professional growth, these factors stimulate employees to become more competent and engaged in their work. This professional learning session is part of a series that explores the eight aspects of organizational culture and... Read more »
Created by: Shayna Pond
Date Updated: June 5th, 2023
During this professional learning session, participants will explore the principles of authenticity and real-world connections. They will apply academic knowledge to solve and illustrate authentic problems that students may encounter both inside and outside of the classroom. Additionally, they will... Read more »
Created by: Brittany Bowens
Date Updated: October 14th, 2024
This professional development addresses the essential question, "How can educators intentionally incorporate students' cultural identities and life experiences into the curriculum to foster joy, engagement, and academic excellence?" During this session, participants will explore the importance of recognizing... Read more »
Created by: Amber Smith
Date Updated: January 27th, 2025
In this lesson, students will explore various types of expository writing. Students will experience the expository forms of description, sequence, comparison, cause/effect, and problem/solution writing through engaging tasks and collaborative activities and create an expository writing reference sheet... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: September 25th, 2024
Expository Writing
Students will implement a close reading strategy to annotate and summarize an informational text about Generation Alpha slang. They will use context clues to infer the meaning of slang words. With the knowledge gained from reading, students will create their own Gen Alpha dictionary of definitions. Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: November 20th, 2024
Summarizing Informational Texts
Students will examine the book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" by Laura Joffe Numeroff to learn about the conditional mood. After deconstructing, reconstructing, and creating their own conditional sentences, students will write collaborative Chain Stories in a narrative style similar to Joffe's book,... Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: August 21st, 2024
Conditional Statements
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 will examine the facts associated with evolution, infer what fossilized remains can inform us about an organism, explore how evolution is influenced by an ever-changing environment, and construct a timeline of an organism change resulting from environmental factors or human... Read more »
Created by: Brittany Bowens
Date Updated: June 18th, 2025
Biology
Students will explore the relationships between exterior angles in regular and irregular polygons to determine the sum of exterior angles, and they will apply that knowledge to solve problems. To complete this lesson, students need to know the interior angle sum theorem. See the "Department of the Interior... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 10th, 2025
Polygons and the Exterior Angle Sum Theorem
In this lesson, students will learn about the four points of natural selection and how they drive the evolutionary patterns of a species. Students will determine how to answer evolutionary questions through interpreting graphs and making connections among natural selection concepts. Students also will... Read more »
Created by: Brittany Bowens
Date Updated: June 24th, 2025
Natural Selection
In this second lesson of the "Lord of the Flies" unit, students examine leadership qualities, looking especially at characters Jack and Ralph. Students analyze multiple points of view in the text. Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: June 3rd, 2025
Leader of the Pack
This lesson is designed to view the benefits of natural selection occurring in one species (bacteria) having an adverse effect on another (humans). It also teaches students how to extrapolate and interpret the meanings of graphs and predict solutions based on that data. Read more »
Created by: Brittany Bowens
Date Updated: June 24th, 2025
Natural Selection and Adaptation
In this second lesson of "The K20 Chronicle" journalism unit, students will practice their active listening skills to determine what makes a good interview. After some collaboration time, students will apply what they have learned to conduct their own interviews of the school's seniors, which will be... Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: July 5th, 2024
How to Conduct an Interview
This lesson is a basic introduction to setting up a chemical equation. This could be part of a unit for physical science and can be done as a refresher or opener in chemistry for chemical equations. Read more »
Created by: Brittany Bowens
Date Updated: June 24th, 2025
Chemical Reactions
In this lesson, students will discover how to determine if any three side lengths make a triangle through a GeoGebra activity. Then, students will formalize their knowledge of the Converse of the Pythagorean Theorem before applying their knowledge through a Card Matching activity and a real-world scenario. Read more »
Created by: Lydia Baker
Date Updated: June 18th, 2025
Converse of the Pythagorean Theorem and Inequality Theorems
In this lesson, students explore the celebration of Diwali while practicing expository writing skills. Students read and summarize the various legends of Diwali and the significance of each day of the festival. Next, students create anchor charts for each day using symbols, images, and their paraphrased... Read more »
Created by: Lisa Loughlin
Date Updated: June 3rd, 2025
Exploring the Festival of Lights Through Expository Writing
In this lesson, students practice their active listening skills and analyze the components of a good interview question. Students will work together to write interview questions and establish norms for the interview process. Then, students will conduct and record an interview of a classmate and review... Read more »
Created by: Michael Grubb
Date Updated: March 19th, 2025
How to Conduct an Interview