Grades:
8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
Barbie is an adventure seeker to the max! She loves the thrill of death defying activities. She believes the adrenaline rush makes her hair more lustrous and keeps a brilliant smile on her face; so
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
The purpose of this activity is to teach students about electrical energy generation in Arizona and the science behind electrical energy generation including radioactive decay and nuclear energy.
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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:
7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
Dive into the physics and engineering and programming of holonomic drives! Learn to code and control movement for your FTC robot with hands-on activities and real-world applications.
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
In this real-world STEM lesson, students take on the role of product planners at Apple to determine the optimal production mix of iPhone 16 colors that maximize profit while considering demand
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
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
This lesson can be used as a formative assessment on Static Equilibrium of a horizontal meter stick that has two masses hanging from the meter stick. One of the mass values is provided, the 2nd mass
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
This STEM Argumentative Research Project engages students in exploring the scientific, ethical, and societal implications of themes in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein." Students will work in groups to
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
This is a 6-week lesson plan for high school students designed to measure and then increase the bat population in the field behind our school. This can be used in any area where bats populate, as long
Grades:
7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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
In this lesson, students physically manipulate a couple of springs and then collect data from a spring force Phet simulator. Next, they graph the data, calculate the area under the curve of their
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
Get the athletic shoes ready! Students calculate their own physical power output by walking, and then hustling/running, up a flight of stairs in this engaging lesson. The change in potential energy
Grades:
10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
This hands-on lesson helps students understand exponential functions by using an LED circuit. LED luminosity decreases at an exponential rate as more are added in series. As students add more lights
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
This lesson is the second lesson of a two-part series where students investigate concepts of biomimicry and apply them to the real world with issues like resource scarcity. In this lesson, students
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
In this lesson, students will learn about desert plant and animal adaptations and the concept of biomimicry. Students will discuss examples of biomimicry in nature and in the real world and will
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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
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, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
This lesson is an activity to see what an angle is and how is can be used to approximate the time of day or even navigating vessels by measuring other celestial bodies. Students will use sextants to
Grades:
8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
This lesson is an activity to show how projectile motion and many other motions in nature fallow a parabolic curve. Students will manipulate that knowledge and analyze data using small play tanks to
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
In this virtual reality frog dissection, students get to explore the anatomy of a female frog inside and out. The frog’s respective organs are scientifically accurate models to scale, allowing
Grades:
11th Grade, 12th Grade
In this engaging lesson, students build a model rocket. They design an experimental procedure based on their understanding of the forces acting on the rocket. They predict values using a flight
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
In this engaging lesson, students are given data and are required to graph the data, analyze the data to determine the carrying capacity of four different organisms.
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
You've crash-landed on an alien planet and must find a way to survive with the help of native flora and fauna. Students will document alien life-forms in a field journal and use that information to
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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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Sphero Rocket Payload Mission
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
This lesson uses Sphero's "Rocket Payload" activity with the Outer Space Mat. The full lesson includes information on rocket payload, a Sphero coding challenge, a NASA link to read, optional questions
Grades:
1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
This lesson using Ozobot is centered around a favorite read aloud, "When Things Aren't Going Right, Go Left". This story is about perseverance. After reading it, students use color code directions and