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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: 1st Grade
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This lesson focuses on animal habitats, as well as nonstandard unit measuring and data tables! The students will research an animal of their choice and identify what it needs in its habitat, as well
Grades: 1st Grade
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Students will be exploring natural resources and 10's and 1's through this hands-on engineering project! The students will create a shelter for an animal out of natural resources they have collected
Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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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: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade
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In this unit, students will identify what a shelter is and why we need it. Students will identify the different types of shelters and materials needed depending on climate and their surroundings
Grades: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
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In this lesson, students design, build and test model candy cars made from simple materials. They measure the changes in distance and travel by the addition of revision of design features. Students
Grades: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade
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Students will create a solar system scroll using fractions so that they are able to represent fractions on a number line using a real-life application, while also learning about the scale of the solar
Grades: 3rd Grade
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Students will have the opportunity to explore the magnetic field in small groups or independently. Students will explore the forces by demonstrating how a paper clip can float in the air using a
Grades: 7th Grade, 8th Grade
2 votes with an average rating of 0.5.
This lesson has students examining isochron maps of the Earth's seafloor and looking for patterns to support evidence of continental drift. A prerequisite include a previous lesson of continental
Grades: 6th Grade
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Students are to design and build a truss-style bridge out of balsa wood before testing its strength.
Grades: 5th Grade
2 votes with an average rating of 1.
In this lesson, students will need to obtain, evaluate and communicate the effects of gravity on objects. Students will watch an engagement video demonstrating how many objects fall to the ground
Grades: 5th Grade
1 votes with an average rating of 1.
Students will be able to identify the planets in our solar system, describe the difference between rotation and revolution, and engineer a three dimensional model of our solar system.
Grades: 5th Grade, 6th Grade
3 votes with an average rating of 1.
A glider is a great physical science/STEM challenge for fifth/sixth grade students. This project allows students to use a Cricut cutting machine to build and modify a glider that will travel as far as
Grades: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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Are your students fans of Formula 1? If they are or aren't this lesson will take a look into the dominance of Red Bull Racing in Formula 1. Why is Red Bull so dominant? Is it the driver or the
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: 5th Grade
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This 5th grade lesson incorporates Mad Lib, micro:bits and learning how to code on Makecode.org. This lesson is teacher directed to walk students to add variables and text value. Students will use
Grades: 2nd Grade
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This lesson uses a children's literature book called Rosie Revere, Engineer. The lesson is designed to support ELA standards along with Math and SEPs. (Science and Engineering Practices) The initial

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