6th Grade | Arizona STEM Acceleration Project (ASAP)

Mining - Evaluating Sustainability

Grades: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade

An overall view of mining, minerals, and their role in our everyday life. This lesson compares the past, present and future of mining and it's relativity to sustaining our way of life.

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Technology Sustainability

Tangible Code with Circuit Playground Express - Lesson 3

Grades: 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade

Students will use Circuit Playground Express and create a DIY Burglar Alarm

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Coding Circuit Playground Express

KIDStruction 2024: STEM Opportunity for Middle School Students in Southern AZ, Part 2 (Emphasis on Build Phase)

Grades: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade

This lesson is a follow up to a previous STEM contest lesson that detailed the KIDStruction opportunity & focused on the design phase. This lesson is intended to support the building phase and is

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KIDStruction Engineering Design Process

Floating Trains: An Exploration of Magnetism and MagLev Trains

Grades: 5th Grade, 6th Grade

This is a lesson plan made to target the fifith grade standard on how noncontact forces impact one another. It can be adapted to grades 5-12. Students will explore magnetism and polarization, research

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Gravitational Forces Magnet Fields MagLev

Space for Art & Poetry in your Science classroom!

Grades: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade

Middle school students love to compete. Here's a lesson idea for a competition that will appeal to your student scientists, artists, and poets alike. Standards and connections are offered for middle

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Art Earth and Space Science Writing

Remote Control Car - Shell Design

Grades: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade

Students will begin by brainstorm and designing a cardboard shell for a remote control car. They will practice iterating on their designs, troubleshooting the process, measuring the cardboard and

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Design Measurement Art

Introduction to Measurement: LEGO Creatures

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

This activity is designed to give students an introductory lesson into measurement. Students will pick out a LEGO creature, measure the creature, then use 3D design software like TinkerCAD to design

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Measurement LEGOs Coding

Dancing With the Stars (Constellation Movement)

Grades: 6th Grade

This ADI lesson plan engages students in the process of inquiry and argumentation, helping them develop a deeper understanding of the movement of constellations in the sky through hands-on

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Constellations Stars Art

Penguin Protectors: Understanding Climate Change, Math, Properties of Water, Conservation of Matter and Teamwork with Penguins

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

Most students are likely familiar with popular films like Happy Feet, Surf’s Up, Penguins of Madagascar, and classic books like Mr. Popper's Penguins. Capitalizing on this familiarity with penguins

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Habitats Natural Selection Climate Change