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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: 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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A lesson that dives into the fusion of Art and Chemistry. Students will make their own pigments using common plants by using an acid-base reaction. They will test the effects of different solvents in
Grades: 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade
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Groups of students will create a stable tower with a paper towel roll and other materials. They will test it with the force of a fan on its highest speed. Groups should have time to modify and retest
Grades: 4th Grade, 5th Grade
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In this lesson, we will learn about different methods for growing potatoes, as the pioneer farmers would have needed to test during the time of the settlers in the United States and Westward Expansion
Grades: 5th Grade
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Students will be creating a lego vehicle on Tinkercad and finding the volume of the vehicle using layering. They will be using standards 5.MD.C.3, 5.MD.C.4, and 5.P1U1.1. They will also explain how
Grades: 7th Grade, 8th Grade
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Students will learn cardboard construction through brainstorming, planning, building, and presenting creative projects, focusing on teamwork, structural integrity, and problem-solving over three class
Grades: 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade
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Students use what they know about similar triangles to create a problem. They will use laser pointers and a small mirror to create a problem requiring students to point the laser beam at the mirror to
Grades: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade
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This lesson is an intro to Cybersecurity and it helps bring awareness. This lesson helps students understand the importance of change and creating passwords secure enough so their emails or logins
Grades: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
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Students will learn the importance of clear, precise communication by directing a partner to navigate a drone through an obstacle course. This exercise will draw parallels to writing clear and
Grades: 6th Grade
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Students discover how plants and soils interact by observing root growth, considering the function of a plant’s roots, modeling the movement of water into the roots, and investigating the movement of
Grades: 5th Grade
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This lesson introduces a phenomenon to start a unit on the properties of matter. Students will plan and carry out a investigation of an unknown mixture and collect data. In doing so, they will begin
Grades: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
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Students will learn about the engineering design process by working in small groups to identify a problem, then design and create a solution, inspired by the main character's creativity and problem
Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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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: 6th Grade
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In this series of lessons, students will be doing a hands-on investigation of 3D shapes and their nets, discovering Euler's formula for 3D shapes, and building both an icosahedron and a geodesic dome.
Grades: 2nd Grade
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This is a week long review activity to be done outdoors on student devices. Students will complete physical/ outdoor activities and see how math fits into their daily life. This is meant to be done in
Grades: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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In this lesson students use a Pocketlab Voyager to collect data on a toy car as it goes down a track. Analysing the data, students calculate gravitational potential energy and Kinetic energy of the

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