Authentic Lessons for 21st Century Learning
Students will use text analysis strategies to summarize two significant events of the Revolutionary War - the Battle of Saratoga and the French Alliance. Then students, working in collaborative groups, will use their knowledge of these events to annotate the lyrics of the song "Guns and Ships" from... Read more »
Created by: Sarah Brewer
Date Updated: March 14th, 2023
Battle of Saratoga and the French Alliance
In this lesson about the journalism writing process and the role of a copy editor, students will explore the importance of grammar and style. Students will work in groups to identify the key elements of a news story through a Card Sort. Then, students will work independently to practice editing a paragraph... Read more »
Created by: Margaret Salesky
Date Updated: February 1st, 2023
Copy Editing and the Writing Process
In this lesson, students will explore the odds of winning in games of chance and discover the problems associated with gambling. They will participate in a game of dice, read personal stories, and create their own PSAs about the dangers of gambling addiction. This lesson includes optional modifications... Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: February 2nd, 2023
Standard 12: Gambling
This lesson explores the impact of the Civil War and Reconstruction on the Five Tribes. Students will begin this lesson with a Word Splash activity to activate their prior knowledge about the Five Tribes' involvement in the Civil War. Next, students will explore the Reconstruction Treaties of 1866 (treaties... Read more »
Created by: Sarah Brewer
Date Updated: February 27th, 2023
The Reconstruction In Indian Territory
In this lesson, students will begin by analyzing two images depicting the conflict at the Washita River 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,... Read more »
Created by: Sarah Brewer
Date Updated: February 27th, 2023
The Indian Wars in Indian Territory
Setting and Conflict
In this lesson, students experiment with changing the settings in well-known fairy tales and examine how conflict might change in a different setting. Students explore the Prologue from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" and analyze how the setting affects the conflict. After analyzing and comparing different... Read more »
Created by: Shelby Blackwood
Date Updated: June 30th, 2022
Setting and Conflict
This lesson is best taught after students have already explored how speed, velocity, and mass determine momentum in terms of Newton’s 1st and 2nd laws. Here, students will take those principles and determine Newton’s 3rd law, including what occurs when two objects act upon one another. Students will... Read more »
Created by: Brittany Bowens
Date Updated: February 19th, 2023
Physical Science
This lesson builds on the inquiry questions that students developed in the lesson "Hall of Injustice, Part 1." Students will use their inquiry questions based on the Tulsa Race Massacre to write an informative research paper that focuses on how remembering history impacts the present. Students will... Read more »
Created by: Polly Base
Date Updated: March 14th, 2023
Guided Inquiry Research
The main cause of the French Revolution is still debated by historians today. In this lesson, students will begin by activating prior knowledge as they complete a Tell Me Everything activity on revolutions. They will sort conditions in a society that can lead to revolution into categories of political,... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: May 31st, 2022
Exploring Causes of the French Revolution
Students will identify the elements of a budget. They will examine how life events and lifestyle affect and change budgeting needs (i.e., personal expenses, emergencies, saving for future goals, family vs. individual). Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: February 19th, 2023
Standard 1: Fundamentals of Budgeting
In this lesson, students use differences in water clarity among four Oklahoma lakes as a phenomenon. They investigate how local environmental conditions and the survival strategies and growth of phytoplankton (algae) affect water clarity. After designing and conducting experiments that relate water... Read more »
Created by: Heather Shaffery
Date Updated: March 5th, 2023
Nutrients, Genetics, and Plant Growth
Students will discuss and evaluate the importance of managing and reconciling a bank account. Using a scenario, students will create a fictitious bank account register. Students also will investigate various local banks' checking account policies and compare them. Finally, students will draw conclusions... Read more »
Created by: Susan McHale
Date Updated: March 15th, 2023
Standard 4: Managing a Bank Account
In this lesson, students will learn about China’s Civil War from 1945-1949. Participating in a discussion about why people rebel against their governments, they will analyze an excerpt from an article about the life of peasants in China prior to the conflict under the Kuomintang rule and an article... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: June 30th, 2022
China's Civil War
In this lesson, students will explore the contributions of Oklahoma's jazz musicians through the analysis of music, images, and text. Students will summarize their understanding by creating Six-Word Memoirs for influential jazz musicians including the Blue Devils, Jimmy Rushing, and Charlie Christian.... Read more »
Created by: Sarah Brewer
Date Updated: March 15th, 2023
The Contributions of Oklahoma's Jazz Musicians
In this lesson, students learn about and explore the characteristics of limited and unlimited governments, both historical and contemporary. Students engage in a Fiction in the Facts activity in which they identify two true statements and one false statement about governments, and they read an article... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: June 30th, 2022
That Is the Government’s Question
Do words matter? Does our choice of words affect the attitudes of others? In this lesson, students will explore the denotation and connotation of different words from Romeo and Juliet and how word choice affects understanding and perception of an author’s writing. This is a multimodality lesson, which... Read more »
Created by: Shelby Blackwood
Date Updated: June 30th, 2022
Connotation and Denotation in Romeo and Juliet
In this lesson, students learn about and explore the characteristics of historical and contemporary examples of limited and unlimited governments. Students engage in a Fiction in the Facts activity in which they identify two true statements and one false statement about governments. They read an article... Read more »
That Is the Government’s Question
In this lesson, students learn about and explore the characteristics of historical and contemporary examples of limited and unlimited governments. Students engage in a Fiction in the Facts activity in which they identify two true statements and one false statement about governments. They read an article... Read more »
That Is the Government’s Question
Setting and Conflict
In this lesson, students will experiment with changing the setting in well-known fairy tales and will examine how the conflict would shift in the new setting. Students will explore the Prologue in Romeo and Juliet and analyze how the setting affects the conflict. Finally, students will rewrite their... Read more »
Setting and Conflict
Setting and Conflict
In this lesson, students will experiment with changing the setting in well-known fairy tales and will examine how the conflict would shift in the new setting. Students will explore the Prologue in Romeo and Juliet and analyze how the setting affects the conflict. Finally, students will rewrite their... Read more »
Setting and Conflict
Do words matter? Does our choice of words affect the attitudes of others? In this lesson, students will explore the denotation and connotation of different words and how word choice affects understanding and perception of an author’s writing. This lesson is multi-modal, which means it's intended to... Read more »
Connotation and Denotation
Setting and Conflict
In this lesson, students will experiment with changing the setting in well-known fairy tales and will examine how the conflict would shift in the new setting. Students will explore the Prologue in Romeo and Juliet and analyze how the setting affects the conflict. Finally, students will rewrite their... Read more »
Setting and Conflict
This lesson has students connect the theme of regret across poems, songs, nonfiction, and short stories to explore how social-emotional factors can affect character development and theme. Students will work independently to write their own apology note as well as write an apology from the perspective... Read more »
Created by: Daniel Schwarz
Date Updated: March 15th, 2023
Character Development and Theme in "The Scarlet Ibis"
This lesson examines the role of organizations such as the Black Panther Party in advocating for social justice during the Civil Rights Movement. Using texts, images, and the Black Panther Party's Ten Point Program, students learn how the Black Panther Party fought against social injustices. By the... Read more »
Created by: Mariana DeLoera
Date Updated: November 4th, 2022
The Civil Rights Movement and The Black Panther Party
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 30th, 2022
Natural Selection
What motivated and inspired legendary folk musician Woody Guthrie to create and perform music? Students explore this question throughout the lesson by engaging in a Gallery Walk analysis of Guthrie photos and quotes and then using his lyrics to determine the political and social issues that Guthrie... Read more »
Created by: Sarah Brewer
Date Updated: February 27th, 2023
Contributions of Influential Oklahomans
In this lesson, students will analyze ancient civilizations to understand how the environment impacts both human settlement and the characteristics of a civilization. Students will construct PERSIA graphic organizers of the civilization they live in and compare their civilizations with the ancient civilizations... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: June 30th, 2022
Characteristics of Civilization
In this lesson, students learn about the way trade affects the spread of religion by studying the contributions of Mansa Musa to the culture of West Africa. Students examine the empire that Mansa Musa led by viewing images related to Mansa Musa’s contributions, viewing a video, and reading an article... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: June 30th, 2022
Trade and Religion in West Africa
In this lesson, students will explore the protected rights all students have on school grounds based on the precedent set by 1969 Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines. Students will analyze how this court case helped to clarify and extend students' First Amendment freedoms, then they will reflect... Read more »
Created by: Mariana DeLoera
Date Updated: June 9th, 2022
What Are Your Rights as a Student?
In this lesson, students evaluate the historical and cultural perspectives behind spoken word poetry. Students review several spoken word poems and analyze their historical, cultural, and social connections while studying the history of spoken word poetry. Students then demonstrate and justify their... Read more »
Created by: Shelby Blackwood
Date Updated: June 30th, 2022
Historical and Cultural Perspectives in Literature
In this lesson, students will explore the problems that industrialization created for workers by examining a collection of photos and texts. Next, students will read about the rise of labor unions in response to the problems previously identified and their overarching goals. To extend their learning,... Read more »
Created by: Sarah Brewer
Date Updated: September 13th, 2022
The Labor Movement
This lesson will take learners through the discovery of various word parts. Throughout the lesson students will be able to connect parts of a word they are familiar with to help understand unknown vocabulary through context clues. Read more »
Created by: Chrissy Waldhoer
Date Updated: August 12th, 2022
Affixes and root words
In this lesson students explore the problems that industrialization created for workers by examining a collection of photos and texts. Next, students read about the rise of labor unions in response to the problems previously identified and their overarching goals. To extend their learning, students... Read more »
The Labor Movement
In this lesson students explore the problems that industrialization created for workers by examining a collection of photos and texts. Next, students read about the rise of labor unions in response to the problems previously identified and their overarching goals. To extend their learning, students... Read more »
The Labor Movement
In this lesson, students discuss and analyze the ways in which genetics and the environment play a role in human development. Students participate in a Four Corners activity, a Card Sort, and an article analysis, and then extend their learning by viewing a video about an experiment that separated triplets... Read more »
Created by: Laura Halstied
Date Updated: February 19th, 2023
Nature vs. Nurture
In this first lesson of a media production unit, students interact with five types of cameras used for filming and create a 60-second or less short film. Read more »
Created by: James Doyle
Date Updated: March 16th, 2023
Media Production, Lesson 1
This lesson takes learners through a process using their five senses to describe various candies. Learners will record their findings using descriptive words and then pose positive or negative opinions about the candies. Following this activity, they will write the first draft of a persuasive paragraph... Read more »
Created by: Patricia Turner
Date Updated: March 16th, 2022
Persuasive Writing
While it is important for students to engage in classroom discourse in their social studies classes in order to develop understanding, purposeful and effective opportunities for students to share their thinking and reasoning do not happen on their own. They require deliberate planning and facilitation... Read more »
Created by: Sarah Brewer
Date Updated: April 7th, 2022
A Classroom Framework for Supporting Student Well-Being focuses on creating a common language for safety, connections, and coping strategies in the classroom. Participants will reflect on their teaching practices with an eye towards transforming their classrooms into safe and nurturing spaces. Read more »
Created by: Shayna Pond
Date Updated: March 12th, 2021
This professional learning session focuses on providing teachers with foundational knowledge and strategies they can use to promote student autonomy. Participants will explore research on best practices for self-regulated learning, analyze learner motivation, reflect on personal teaching styles, and... Read more »
Created by: Patricia McDaniels-Gomez
Date Updated: September 14th, 2021
This professional learning sessions focuses on providing teachers with foundational knowledge and strategies they can use to promote student autonomy. Participants will explore research on best practices for self-regulated learning, analyze learner motivation, reflect on personal teaching styles, and... Read more »
Participants consider the benefits of discourse in science and explore three strategies that support discourse in the classroom by role playing as students. They then discuss the benefits of each of the three strategies for incorporating discourse in their classroom. In small groups, participants discuss... Read more »
Created by: Patricia McDaniels-Gomez
Date Updated: April 7th, 2022
How can schools purposefully support concurrent enrollment students? In this session, participants deepen their understanding of how to best support concurrent enrollment students by analyzing a playbook and collaborating on best practices. Next, participants listen to a panel consisting of educators... Read more »
Created by: Lindsay Williams
Date Updated: February 1st, 2023