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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: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
3 votes with an average rating of 1.
Students will work in small groups to create a water filtration system to demonstrate understanding of water purification systems and human influences.
Grades: 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
1 votes with an average rating of 1.
This lesson plan is on how to make agar plates to grow media on. This teaches the students how to measure out the agar and water and mix properly and plate the agar properly.
Grades: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade
1 votes with an average rating of 1.
An overall view of mining, minerals, and their role in our everyday life. This lesson compares the past, present and future of mining and it's relativity to sustaining our way of life.
Grades: 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
2 votes with an average rating of 0.5.
Students will use projectile motion as practical example to better understand how parabolas (quadratic equations) are built. Students will also tabulate x and y values on Google Spreadsheets and graph
Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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The goal of this module is to learn about the production of musical sounds through the vibrations in stringed instruments. The module is expected to take place over approximately 4 class periods.
Grades: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
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Students will begin by brainstorm and designing a cardboard shell for a remote control car. They will practice iterating on their designs, troubleshooting the process, measuring the cardboard and
Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
1 votes with an average rating of 1.
Students pull wooden "sleds" with different masses on them over various types of surfaces with spring scales (force meters) to calculate the different coefficients of friction. Students graph the data
Grades: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
4 votes with an average rating of 0.8.
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: 8th Grade
6 votes with an average rating of 1.
Uncover the fascinating world of soil electrical conductivity with this engaging experiment. Students will measure the electrical conductivity of various soil types to identify which one boasts the
Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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A high school physics lesson plan asking students to use guided inquiry and discover how current moves through series and parallel circuits. Students then share their results by using technology to
Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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A high school physics lesson plan that uses guided inquiry to help students explore the changes in potential difference across resistors connected in series & parallel.
Grades: 7th Grade, 8th Grade
1 votes with an average rating of 0.
In this lesson students will work in teams to research the different parts of a drone obstacle course with the intention to build and race it themselves.
Grades: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
1 votes with an average rating of 1.
In this lesson students will broaden their understanding of their drone controls learning the proper terminology and practice using that vocabulary flying mini obstacle courses as a Pilot/Co-Pilot duo
Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
2 votes with an average rating of 1.
In studying science, we are limited by the bounds of our own senses when collecting data. By developing technology that allows us to enhance and extend our senses, we can study things we would not
Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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This set of lessons allows students to understand circuitry through different lenses and apply this to simple circuits and electrical calculations.

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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