Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
This professional development session focuses on insights and strategies for creating a college- and career-going culture in schools. Participants will be asked to: (1) analyze the significance of a college- and career-going culture, (2) assess the current college- and career-going culture at their... Read more »
Created by: Lacy Pennington
Date Updated: February 21st, 2022
In this interactive session, teachers will participate as learners in a 5E LEARN lesson. Through this experience, they will build formal knowledge of 5E concepts and evaluate the lesson’s alignment with the 5E model and its elements of authenticity. After observing modifications made to the 5E LEARN... Read more »
Created by: Heather Shaffery
Date Updated: November 19th, 2021
Metaphors and theme are difficult, yet integral, parts of literature. In this poetry analysis lesson, students will read "A Noiseless Patient Spider" by Walt Whitman. To begin the lesson, students will personally connect with the narrator of the poem by correlating the idea of fortitude and chance to... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: May 31st, 2022
POETRY analysis: Theme and Metaphor
Students will use close reading strategies to analyze symbolism in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven." The class will begin by observing symbols being displayed on the board, transition into recognizing the main symbol in the poem, and finally create a symbolic poem of their own. Through collaborative exercises,... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: May 31st, 2022
Symbolism
In this lesson, students will analyze the differences between Native American and European cultures of the past, using the instructional strategies of Card Sorts, 4.2.,1 and a Gallery Walk, and by creating posters. Students will analyze various primary sources, including federal legislation and the... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: June 6th, 2022
The Dawes Act and native culture
This lesson validates the concept of mole to mole ratios within a chemical equation. It is a lab that uses an indirect variable (in this case, temperature change) to determine optimal ratios of reactants, thus the ratio of reactants that create the most products (which is the mole to mole ratio). This... Read more »
Created by: K20 Center
Date Updated: July 15th, 2022
Using Indirect Measurements to Determine Mole Ratios
This Health and Media Literacy lesson is intended to raise awareness of the predatory advertising practices in the tobacco industry. Read more »
Media literacy: Advertising practices in the tobacco industry
Students sort 14 star spectra and creating a star classification system to develop science classification skills. Though analysis of figures that describe the OBAFGKM classification system and temperature effects on element absorption in stars, students will learn that star spectra can be used to find... Read more »
Light / Stars / Blackbody Radiation
This lesson validates the concept of mole to mole ratios within a chemical equation. It is a lab that uses an indirect variable (in this case, temperature change) to determine optimal ratios of reactants, thus the ratio of reactants that create the most products (which is the mole to mole ratio). This... Read more »
Using Indirect Measurements to Determine Mole Ratios
Students will use Wacom tablets to make monochrome images, burn them to transparency paper, and make some shirts and/or bags with them. Students also will watch ICAP interviews with a screen-printing business that prints its own materials and will then reflect on this as a career option. Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
Date Updated: March 30th, 2023
Making Silk-Screen Prints Using Transparencies