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Search our growing library of STEM lesson plans. Arizona teachers are contributing their best STEM lesson plans to an archive that is aligned with Arizona Academic Standards. This repository is provided free of charge through a collaboration with the Arizona Educational Foundation.

Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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This lesson includes 1 or 2- 50 minute period(s) worth of particle pollution exploration. Students are creating an explanation of events for carbon dioxide and particle pollution detection, creating

Grades: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
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This lesson is for teachers to explore how to have all students working hands on with limited numbers of materials. Explore insights, tips, strategies and templates used in a middle school wood shop

Grades: 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
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Students will learn about balanced vs unbalanced forces by trying to rescue bears from the "Lava" (the table) using certain given supplies.

Grades: 6th Grade, 7th Grade
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Students will predictions about what will happen when two objects collide and compare hypotheses to observations. Also, students will compare what happens when objects made of different materials
Grades: 6th Grade
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Got gumdrops? Then you can build models of molecules. Molecules are tiny structures that make up just about all matter—including you! Molecules themselves are made of atoms, the basic building blocks
Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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This lesson includes 1 or 2- 50 minute period(s) worth of Greenhouse gas exploration. Students are creating and refining a drawn model of greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere, reading and discussing

Grades: 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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This lesson is about students understanding the scientific process through a Community Maze game. Students experience the importance of observation, collaboration, discovery, feedback to achieve a

Grades: 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade
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In this engaging lesson, students study and design a healthy fish tank with a variety of animals. Students also learn about budgeting costs.

Grades: 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade
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In this hands-on lesson, students use making lemonade to practice lab procedures, measurement and ratios as well as learning about temperatures affecting saturation points.

Grades: 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
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This is the first in a series of lesson designed to introduce middle schoolers to the engineering design process. In this lesson the main take away for the students is that engineers solve problems by

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