3rd Grade | Arizona STEM Acceleration Project (ASAP)

Coding for Beginners

Grades: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade

This lesson plan is an introduction to basic coding for students in 3rd - 5th grade. There is an activity that involves no technology before they go on a computer to practice their coding skills!

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Coding

Is Your Password Strong Enough?

Grades: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade

This lesson is an intro to Cybersecurity and it helps bring awareness. This lesson helps students understand the importance of change and creating passwords secure enough so their emails or logins

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Cybersecurity

Buttons: Where Creativity Meets Innovation!

Grades: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade

Button makers are great additions in the classroom! But first, students should learn the history of buttons, about the button machine and how to operate it. Challenge cards provided inspire students

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Makerspace Buttons Engineering Design Process Design

Photorealistic AI image of a food web scene in a forest

Animal Adaptations: Camouflage

Grades: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade

In this lesson students combine science and math standards to explore the animal adaptation: camouflage. Students engage in discussion, watch a video, complete a hands-on activity, fill out a table

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Camoflauge Biomimicry Data

YOU Can Be an Inventor!

Grades: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade

Students will learn about the engineering design process by working in small groups to identify a problem, then design and create a solution, inspired by the main character's creativity and problem

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Literature Engineering Design Process

Engineering with Box Lox and Cardboard

Grades: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade

This lesson encourages students to use their imagination, design and construct something out of cardboard and other recyclables if you choose. Students will first be inspired by reading Pete the Cat’s

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Engineering Design Process Literature

Mining and Water Filtration: A Paired Reading with Healer of the Water Monster by Brian Young

Grades: 3rd Grade

This lesson incorporates a paired reading of Healer of the Water Monster by Brian Young. Students will engage in this lesson after reading the book which makes connections of the dangers and aftermath

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Graphing Mining Human Impact Water Quality

Cactus Hotel and Dr. Bird to the Rescue: Birds in the Schoolyard

Grades: 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade

Students learn about the gila woodpecker as well as the 5 S's of birdwatching. Students then make observations of birds in their schoolyard, summarize the findings on a graph and slideshow, and design

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Arizona Engineering Design Process Observation

Exploring Ecosystems and Natural Disasters

Grades: 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade

Students will research a biome around the world, including 3 animals, 3 plants, and 3 nonliving parts of the ecosystem. Students will construct a diorama of the biome and illustrate a natural disaster

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Biomes Natural Disasters