This workshop will integrate new (to many) content and instructional practices. We will share a newly designed lesson on critical minerals (CM; Aird et al., to be uploaded to TTE in fall 2025) that has been developed using student-centered instructional practices (as measured by RTOP and COPUS using direct observations at four institutions). The workshop will focus on two important themes: 1) Content: there is currently only 1 Teach the Earth (TTE) lesson on CM, but this important topic has societal relevance and the potential to employ a large number of geoscientists. 2) Pedagogical: student-centered instructional practices support student engagement and learning. Participants will preview the lesson, critique the activity and discuss in small groups the relevance of the content and instructional practices for students in their courses. In small groups, participants will use a general lesson plan template to modify our CM lesson for their contexts (e.g. intro labs, mineralogy/early majors course, economic geology/advanced majors, online lecture course). By the end of the workshop, participants will have created a modified CM lesson plan that incorporates student-centered instruction. Lesson plans will be uploaded to our TTE CM lesson as a "Community Contribution Tool" (CCT), allowing for community-wide usage. After the workshop, participants can use their lesson plans to finalize activities for their own courses and modify their CCT submission accordingly.