S1: Engineering & Global Society | Arizona STEM Acceleration Project (ASAP)

Collecting Air Pollution

Grades: 4th Grade, 5th Grade

This is a simple, fun lesson to teach about air pollution. This lesson teaches students what air pollution is and what causes it. Students will put petroleum jelly on an index card, place it outside

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air pollution Environmental Science

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

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

Intro to Model Rocketry

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

Students will learn about the history of rocketry and the science behind it. They will launch rockets using pressure for propulsion, as well as model rockets with engines.

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Rockets

Fueling the Future: Exploring Alternative Energy Sources

Grades: 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade

This lesson is a whole unit on energy. It can be broken up into 10 separate lessons. I chose to put them all together so that it was easier to see how I organized them so you did not have to search

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Alternative Energy Games

Critical Evaluation of Sources for STEM Projects

Grades: 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade

This lesson is designed to help students learn how to critically evaluate sources of information, a crucial skill for conducting independent STEM projects. The lesson uses the Baloney Detection Kit

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Science Method Sources

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

Engaging Student Voice in Developing Research Questions with the QFT (Question Formulation Technique)

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

This lesson helps engage student voice in developing stronger research questions and projects on topics about which they are interested, curious, and passionate. The Question Formulation Technique

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Research Engineering Design Process

The Great Gatsby’s Eco-Friendly Art Deco Design Project

Grades: 11th Grade, 12th Grade

Students will design and build eco-friendly Art Deco-inspired miniatures of party venues from "The Great Gatsby" by learning principles of geometry, engineering, and sustainability, and culminating in

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Literature Art Engineering