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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.

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Grades: 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
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In this creative lesson, students explore states of matter as they fuse glass. During this process, students are actively engaged as they design an art piece, work on measurements, and collaborate
Grades: 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
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Students will research a biome around the world, including 3 animals, 3 plants, and 3 nonliving parts of the ecosystem. Students will construct a diorama of the biome and illustrate a natural disaster
Grades: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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Students will pick an issue that they think exists in the world and propose a solution via a presentation. This will model a TedTalk.
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: 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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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: 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: 4th Grade, 5th Grade
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This STEM activity is designed to be used with an animal habitat lesson. Students will create a UV animal using color changing UV beads and design a shelter to protect the animal from harmful UV light

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: 7th Grade, 8th Grade
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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: 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: 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: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
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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: 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: 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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Learn how to train your own Artificial Intelligence neural network without the complexities of coding. Google's (free) Teachable Machine is a web-based tool that makes it easy to train your computer
Grades: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
3 votes with an average rating of 0.7.
This maze activity builds all sorts of skills. Students will be improving spatial skills, logic skills, problem solving skills, math skills, technology skills, and fine motor skills Mazes provide
Grades: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade
2 votes with an average rating of 0.5.
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

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