Engineering | Arizona STEM Acceleration Project (ASAP)

Force and the Pioneer Whirligig

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

We begin with the observation of a phenomenon - the spinning pioneer button. Students make their own spinning pioneer button and experiment with different lengths of string. With teacher input and

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Simple Machines Engineering Force Model Torque Observation

Cardboard Automata Tinkering - STEAM Lesson

Grades: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade

This engineering design STEAM lesson is intended to be introduced as a playful and inventive approach to learning simple machines. Students explore levers, cams, cam followers, linkages, and other

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Simple Machines Automata

Photorealistic AI image of a food web scene in a forest

Exploring Ecosystems: Where Adaptation Unveils, Human Impact Reveals, and Interdependence Prevails! (Week 4)

Grades: 4th Grade, 6th Grade

This project consists of the final part of a four-part unit for 4th and 6th-grade students exploring Arizona's science standards. Students will study how living things compete for energy and resources

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Human Impact Ecosystems Ecology Adaptations

Battlebot Spheros

Grades: 6th Grade

Students are challenged to create a battlebot that will be powered by a sphero and compete against other bots. Each bot will have an inflated balloon attached to the back. The objective is to pop

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Sphero Robotics

Bumper Cars

Grades: 7th Grade

Students design and build a bumper car to test Newton's third law of motion.

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Newton's Laws cars Engineering

Micro:Bit Polling Station

Grades: 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade

Students create a polling station, using student-made buttons, a circuit, and coding a Micro:Bit, to discover and report current student trends.

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Circuits Coding

Engineering Meteorology Tools

Grades: 7th Grade

Students design and build tools for collecting meteorology data. Then students will collect data to make predictions about future weather moving into the area.

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Weather Meteorology Engineering

Coding a Drone to Fly on Mars: Three More Complex Missions! (2 of 2)

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

On the second day students use more complex coding, the built in camera for taking pictures and experience FPV. It has 3 missions total in this lesson. This lesson also uses yaw to keep the camera

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Drones Coding

Coding a Drone to Fly on Mars or in a City Park! Plan 1 of 2

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

Coding and flying drones what a match! Students will have the chance to experiment with flying a drone in a simulator. The lesson includes 4 missions incorporating forces of flight acting on a drone.

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Drones Coding