Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
Where is the best place to go on vacation? The worst? What are ways that your students could answer these questions descriptively? In this engaging lesson, students will practice descriptive writing skills by creating uniquely individual "Best/Worst of" lists in e-book format. Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: March 11th, 2024
Writing to Engage and Entertain
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
In this lesson, students learn about the literary elements of character, setting, and plot while reading and exploring several stories: "Love Monster" by Rachel Bright, "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak, "I Need My Monster" by Amanda Noll, and "How To Catch a Monster" by Adam Wallace and... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: October 19th, 2020
Literary Elements
Environmental Racism in America
During this fifth and final lesson in the Connecting Social Issues and Health Inequalities unit, students will analyze Marvin Gaye's song, "Mercy, Mercy Me," discuss the history of environmental racism in America, and complete and present their project proposals. Read more »
Created by: Alonna Smith
Date Updated: July 13th, 2023
Environmental Racism in America
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 culminating lesson of the "Lord of the Flies" unit, students revisit the Microcosms they designed in Lesson 1 and re-evaluate their emergency items, as they think critically about what William Golding intended to say in the story and how the story influenced them as a whole. Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: June 20th, 2023
In the End
This lesson focuses on the benefits, costs, and risks of creating products to protect natural systems and life on Earth. Students will design a tool that can be used to conserve a natural resource, and then they will modify their original designs based on research and peer feedback. In groups, students... Read more »
Created by: Brittany Bowens
Date Updated: March 13th, 2023
Environmental Science
This lesson revisits Elie Wiesel's Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech from "In the Kingdom of Night, Part 1" lesson, but this time with a focus on analyzing what makes it a good speech. Students examine the calls to action in three speeches relating to the Holocaust. Students create a list of what... Read more »
Created by: Lisa Loughlin
Date Updated: July 11th, 2024
A Call to Action
Analyzing Imagery In Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains"
In this lesson, students discuss smart houses and the impact of smart technology in society in small-group and whole-class discussions. Students then read Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" and analyze the imagery throughout before writing a brief literary analysis. Next, students watch an... Read more »
Created by: Lisa Loughlin
Date Updated: September 1st, 2023
Analyzing Imagery In Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains"
Examining Intrinsic & Extrinsic Motivation Through Character Analysis in Macbeth
In this lesson, students explore what intrinsic and extrinsic motivations are and the characters' motivations in William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Students create visual and written representations of their assigned character's motivations. Students end the lesson by writing a scholarly essay about the... Read more »
Created by: Lisa Loughlin
Date Updated: September 28th, 2023
Examining Intrinsic & Extrinsic Motivation Through Character Analysis in Macbeth
In this lesson, students will be introduced to the concept of semiotics and signs. Students will engage with language games and ultimately use semiotics to analyze advertisements to determine how they make meaning. Read more »
Created by: Bradly Cusack
Date Updated: November 26th, 2024
Linguistics, Semiotics
Forging a path of strong community in an online classroom can be a challenge. Teachers and students are separated, and maintaining a sense of community relies on some of the same practices we use in the in-person classroom. However, when coupled with uniquely designed virtual materials, authentic teaching... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: July 2nd, 2024
This two hour digital citizenship professional development focuses on increasing cohort teachers' understanding of digital citizenship. Participants will evaluate their beliefs, values, and digital footprints so that they can model good digital citizenship to their students. As a result of this introspection,... Read more »
Created by: Lindsey Link
Date Updated: February 22nd, 2024
Research indicates that teachers will likely bear additional duties and responsibilities outside the classroom. These added hours can potentially lead to stress and strain. This session is designed to bridge the two roles of coaching and teaching by understanding their similarities. Participants will... Read more »
Created by: Kim Press
Date Updated: June 26th, 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
This professional learning session focuses on guiding teachers on the creation of a science field day and parent night. Participants will experience an authentic model lesson where they will have to problem solve, rely on prior knowledge, and collaborate with their peers to develop a game/activity... Read more »
Created by: Patricia McDaniels-Gomez
Date Updated: July 26th, 2022
In this professional development session, educators explore the benefits of acknowledging students' cultural backgrounds in the classroom. Participants explore lessons that incorporate Native Culture in order to identify strategies for creating culturally inclusive lessons that integrate diverse perspectives... Read more »
Created by: Patricia McDaniels-Gomez
Date Updated: September 22nd, 2023
The Leading Educators in Authentic Development (LEAD) workshop is a series of professional learning sessions that develop teachers’ skills in leading professional development at their school sites. This workshop features four sessions over a two-day period. This first session, Leading Educators in Authentic... Read more »
Created by: Mariah Warren
Date Updated: November 11th, 2024
The Leading Educators in Authentic Development (LEAD) workshop is a series of professional learning sessions that develop teachers’ skills in leading professional development at their school sites. This workshop features four sessions over a two-day period. This fourth session, Leading Educators in... Read more »
Created by: Mariah Warren
Date Updated: November 11th, 2024
In this session, participants reflect on how they can partner with families to help students succeed in postsecondary education. Participants start with a reflection survey on family engagement, then work through family scenarios that focus on discovering each family's strengths and looking for opportunities... Read more »
Created by: Laura Buxton
Date Updated: August 22nd, 2024
This professional development session introduces educators to the Claim-Evidence-Reasoning (CER) instructional strategy. Participants explore how to apply CER across different content areas and understand its role in preparing students for college and career readiness exams. Through hands-on activities,... Read more »
Created by: Patricia McDaniels-Gomez
Date Updated: August 14th, 2024
This resource is part of a series of professional learning activities that can be used to support a group book study. In each section, you will be able to select from several activities that will enable you and the other participants in your book study group to think critically about the reading. The... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: September 3rd, 2024