Kansas Teaching Resources & Worksheets (Grades K–12)
Kansas Teaching Resources & Worksheets (Grades K–12)
Classroom-ready units for Kansas teachers, written to the concepts the Kansas College and Career Ready Standards describe. Four tiers of worksheets, an editable deck, full answer keys and a timed lesson plan, downloadable the minute you pay.
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Units Kansas teachers can run this week
Begin with the single-period elementary craft, work through the middle-grade computer science and ethics units on algorithms, artificial intelligence and activism, then take the cybersecurity bundle when you want the whole strand in one download.
All Saints’ Day Craft – SEL and Art Worksheet for Elementary Grades
AI and Responsibility – Ethics Unit: Worksheets, Projects & Slides (Grades 6–9)
Ai Weiwei – Art and Political Activism
Algorithms and Computational Thinking – Computer Science Unit: Worksheets, Projects & Slides (Grades 6–9)
AI Literacy & Cybersecurity Activities | Artificial Intelligence, Prompt Engineering & Online Safety | Computer Science Bundle | Grades 7–10
Why teachers here use these
Why Kansas teachers use these
Kansas asks teachers to serve two masters at once. KAP runs in grades 3 through 8 and again in grade 10 for reading and mathematics, with science landing in grades 5, 8 and 11, so spring is already spoken for. Alongside it sits the Kansans Can redesign and the KESA accreditation cycle, which judge a school on outcomes a test score never captures: postsecondary readiness, civic engagement, the individual plan of study. Both demands land on the same person, and across much of the state that person teaches four preps in a building of two hundred students. There is no curriculum office down the hall to hand over a unit on algorithms or on the ethics of artificial intelligence, and often no colleague teaching the same course to split the work with. A finished unit is the cheapest help you can hire. The tiered worksheets, the slides and the keys are written already, so the hours you do have go to the students in front of you instead of to the copier and a blank document.
A sequence you can run
Five lessons out of one download
The material is built as a short sequence rather than a one-off activity, so a single file covers two weeks of periods and still leaves extension work for the students who finish early.
- Set the problem before the vocabularyStudents meet a concrete case first — a reused password, a recommendation that steers badly — and write what they notice. The terminology arrives in lesson two, attached to something they have already argued about.
- Name the terms on the boardThe second sheet supplies the definitions the discussion was missing, in the order the unit uses them later, so nobody is guessing at a word in week two.
- Run the method on a fresh caseA different scenario, the same procedure. This lesson shows you who can transfer the thinking and who is still copying the shape of the first example.
- Hand the class a build taskThe project sheet turns analysis into something students make: an algorithm written out, a policy for a school device, a poster argument. Lower tiers get a tighter brief and more scaffolding.
- Finish with writing you can gradeA closing task produces one piece of extended writing per student. Keep it — that is what answers a parent, a plan-of-study review, or a question about what the class actually did.
What's covered
What lands in your downloads folder
Every unit is sized for a real period rather than a filler activity, and each file arrives editable, so you can cut a question or add your district header before anything reaches a student.
- Worksheets at four challenge levels
- An editable slide deck
- Complete answer keys
- Lesson plan with timings
- Printable and digital versions
- Word and PowerPoint files
Make it work in your building
Built for how Kansas schools actually run
Four tiers are not busywork for the fast finishers. When a class spans several years of reading ability, one handout leaves half the room copying and the other half idle, and neither group hands back anything you can grade honestly. Four versions of the same question mean every student writes at a level they can manage while the work stays comparable, because the underlying task never changed. That comparability is what makes the writing usable afterwards — in a conference with a parent, in an individual plan of study, or in any conversation about what students can do beyond a score.
Good to know
Frequently asked questions
Do these match the Kansas College and Career Ready Standards?
They are independent teaching materials. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by the Kansas State Department of Education. Each unit is written to the concepts and skills the Kansas College and Career Ready Standards describe for its subject and grade band, which is why the content sits inside what you already teach rather than beside it. Open the preview and hold it against your district's scope and sequence before buying; that comparison is the only fit test worth trusting.
Will these support KAP preparation?
Only in the ordinary way that steady classwork does. The Kansas Assessment Program covers reading and mathematics in grades 3 through 8 and again in grade 10, with science at grades 5, 8 and 11, and the units here build the reading of unfamiliar material, the technical vocabulary and the written explanation those items ask for. We publish no practice tests, reproduce no KAP questions and make no claim about scores.
How many copies can I make?
As many as your own students need. There is no page limit and no per-copy fee: the worksheets exist to be photocopied, and most teachers run only the two tiers a given section calls for rather than the whole set. The file stays on your drive, so next year's sections cost nothing more. Where the copy budget runs out in March, project the slide deck and print only the practice pages.
Can the teacher across the hall use my copy?
The purchase covers one teacher and every section that teacher takes, this year and in the years after. A colleague running their own classes needs a copy of their own. If two or three of you want the same material, a bundle works out cheaper per teacher than separate single units, and a department can push one purchase order through the office instead of three small ones.
What formats arrive, and will they work with our systems?
Every unit downloads as editable Word and PowerPoint files together with print-ready PDFs. The PDFs upload straight into Google Classroom, Canvas or whichever platform your district runs, and the Word files open for editing when you need to cut a question, change a name or drop your school header on top. Nothing here needs a subscription, an app or a live connection once the files are saved.
We are mid-cycle on KESA. Does this give us anything to show?
It gives you student work, which is usually what the accreditation conversation is short of. The Kansans Can redesign asks schools to evidence outcomes a test score does not reach, and the written tasks in these units produce dated, gradable artifacts tied to a named skill. Keep a tier one and a tier four response from the same lesson and you have a defensible picture of what a class can do.
Take the whole strand at once
The AI literacy and cybersecurity bundle gathers the middle-grade units above into a single download, sequenced for a term.
See the bundle →