L2: Organisms & Energy | Arizona STEM Acceleration Project (ASAP)

Listening to Math

Grades: 5th Grade, 6th Grade

This is a lesson that has two parts. The first is a lesson is using the design process to create a simple stethoscope using various materials and defining which would give the best results. Part two

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Heart Human Body Engineering

Water Treatment

Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade

Students will work in small groups to create a water filtration system to demonstrate understanding of water purification systems and human influences.

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Water Quality Water Water Filtration

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

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

How Much Do We Grow in Second Grade?

Grades: 2nd Grade

This is a year long measurement unit. Students will learn about different tools to measure height, discuss and review what they need to grow, and create a growth over time graph for their height. They

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Graphing Measurement Measuring

Bioreactors - Finding Solutions to CO2 and Green Energy Sources

Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade

Students are guided through the urgency to create large scale plan solutions for climate mitigation and green energy fuel sources. They will then build and design a bioreactor using algae as a

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Bioreactor Climate Change Alternative Energy Engineering

Photorealistic AI image of a food web scene in a forest

FROG GOTCHA YOUR TONGUE ?

Grades: 6th Grade

In this activity, students will work together to discuss what they know about frogs and what a frog's tongue is like. Students will be engineering a frog's tongue and discussing it's adaptations.

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Frogs Adaptations Animals Engineering

Growing, Growing, Gone!

Grades: 6th Grade

Students discover how plants and soils interact by observing root growth, considering the function of a plant’s roots, modeling the movement of water into the roots, and investigating the movement of

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Plants Gardening

Creating Natural Pigments from Southwest Plants

Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade

Students will explore the historical use of natural pigments by indigenous peoples, particularly those native to the Southwest region. They will use mathematical concepts to paint using the pigments

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Art Pigments Graphing Arizona Plants