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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: 5th Grade
2 votes with an average rating of 0.5.
Students will explore the history and processes of using natural dyes, focusing on Sonoran desert flora. They will use examples from colonial times from colonists as well. They will investigate how
Grades: 4th Grade
1 votes with an average rating of 1.
Do you need a fun culminating activity at the end of your light energy or light waves unit? Look no further! Here students will create their own spectroscope and investigate light energy and light
Grades: 2nd Grade
4 votes with an average rating of 1.
This is a year long measurement unit. Students will learn about different tools to measure height, discuss and review what they need to grow, and create a growth over time graph for their height. They
Grades: 8th Grade, 9th Grade
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This is the second part of the lesson: Soap Lab - Soap Making. In this lesson, students will take what they learned about soap making and develop a marketing plan for their company. Students will
Grades: 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
5 votes with an average rating of 1.
This lesson is a whole unit on energy. It can be broken up into 10 separate lessons. I chose to put them all together so that it was easier to see how I organized them so you did not have to search
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: 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
2 votes with an average rating of 1.
A lesson designed for an engineering course but that can be used in a science course where we investigate the physics of waves and how it can be applied to the world of art. Students will design and
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: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
1 votes with an average rating of 1.
This set of lessons allows students to model the structure of an atom and use this to define trends on the Periodic Table and characteristics within groups. In addition, students can relate the
Grades: 6th Grade
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In this activity, students will work together to discuss what they know about frogs and what a frog's tongue is like. Students will be engineering a frog's tongue and discussing it's adaptations.
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: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade
1 votes with an average rating of 1.
In this lesson students combine science and math standards to explore the animal adaptation: camouflage. Students engage in discussion, watch a video, complete a hands-on activity, fill out a table
Grades: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
4 votes with an average rating of 0.8.
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: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade
2 votes with an average rating of 1.
Using the book There Was a Coyote Who Swallowed a Flea, students will participate in a lesson about desert animals, learn facts about coyotes, then work in small groups to code "coyote" robots to
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: 10th Grade
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Students will learn about the concept of ratios and their applications in cooking and baking. They will create simple recipes, formulate questions based on these recipes, and engage in activities to

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