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STEM Lesson Plans

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: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
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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
Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
3 votes with an average rating of 1.
"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
Grades: 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade
1 votes with an average rating of 1.
This is a lesson that can be taught in 5 days or one week. The lesson was put together in collaboration with the Smithsonian Science Education Center. It talks about global goals (one of which is food
Grades: 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
1 votes with an average rating of 1.
Want to incorporate the Arts into your 7-12 STEM classroom? The Global Science Opera provides a way to do just that! Learn how to facilitate a STEAM collaboration with arts teachers to make it happen.
Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
1 votes with an average rating of 1.

This lesson introduces the students to what are antibiotics, how they work, and why they are important. At the same time, it also talks about how an organism becomes antibiotic resistant. The students

Grades: 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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Involving themes of biology, ecology, and conservation, this engineering lesson introduces students to the behavior of immersed bodies within the realm of fluid mechanics. Utilizing the phenomena of

Grades: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
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This is a junior high lesson on plant grafting that can be done in a classroom setting or with an after-school club such as botany. This lesson can be easily modified for any grade level. In this

Grades: 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
3 votes with an average rating of 1.

In this outstanding lesson, students will apply their knowledge of how natural and human-caused changes to habitats or climate can impact our world in a stop motion film. The lesson covers a Science

Grades: 8th Grade
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In this lesson students model the process of speciation using Skittles. As they work through the story, students see how changing geography can change the traits in a species and how over time these

Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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This is an adaptation of an HHMI BioInteractive activity. Students use graphics of scenes from two different areas where Rock Pocket Mice are evolving due to a change in environmental conditions (ie

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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
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This lesson takes students through the process of creating an interactive storyboard using a Makey Makey circuit board. This lesson can be adjusted for any grade level with examples given in the 4th