Writing | Arizona STEM Acceleration Project (ASAP)

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

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

Unnecessary Inventions: Exploring the Engineering Design Process

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

Money, creative urge, ego, desire to help others, intellectual challenge and curiosity - inventors develop ideas for all of these reasons and all are valid, according to Invention City. During this

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Engineering Design Process Inventions

Chemical Change Cafe: An Investigation into Physical vs Chemical Change in Foods

Grades: 5th Grade

Students will observe different changes in food and through research determine if the changes are physical or chemical in nature. The students will be able to determine the type of change taking place

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Cooking Chemical Change chemical reactions Physical change

Turn your tables to Explore the Endocrine System

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

From learning the basics of the endocrine system (organs) to creating a 3d visual model of a patient and demonstrating how hormones are released across the body, students will go from simple to

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Endocrine System Biology Anatomy

“A Whole New World” (Soil Exploration Unit) Part 3: Compost Community

Grades: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade

Teachers don't talk trash, they talk COMPOST!! Compost is the best way to teach students the value of community as they create a Classroom Compost Program. In this 3-day introductory lesson, students

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Composting Vermicomposting Worm Farms

A Solution to Plastic Pollution

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

"A Solution to Plastic Pollution" – an engaging and hands-on lesson plan designed to empower students to address one of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time: plastic pollution. In

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Eco Friendly Science Method

Healthy Bodies Math Trail

Grades: 2nd Grade

This is a week long review activity to be done outdoors on student devices. Students will complete physical/ outdoor activities and see how math fits into their daily life. This is meant to be done in

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Geometry Health Measurement