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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: 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
Grades: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
2 votes with an average rating of 0.
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: 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: 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: 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
1 votes with an average rating of 1.
This lesson plan is on how to make agar plates to grow media on. This teaches the students how to measure out the agar and water and mix properly and plate the agar properly.
Grades: 5th Grade
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Students will create a space company and work collaboratively with their team to design, test, build, and revise a rocket. Lesson materials and worksheets are usable for all types of rockets, with
Grades: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
4 votes with an average rating of 0.8.
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
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Students compare the structures and functions of traits that enable organisms to survive in a specific environment. Analyzing the traits of animals provides evidence for how those traits vary, how
Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
2 votes with an average rating of 1.
Students will use Gel Electrophoresis to diagnose the dominant, fatal, genetic disorder of Huntington's Disease, a neurodegenerative disorder caused by an excessive number of CAG repeats in the DNA
Grades: 8th Grade
1 votes with an average rating of 1.
Students will learn about DNA base pairs. As a team they will send a student to read a sequence of DNA/RNA and will have their group duplicate or sequence the complimentary base pair. Students will
Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade
2 votes with an average rating of 1.
This lesson is designed to uderstand the stages of mitosis by integrating Virtual Reality (VR) in the classroom. The students will be able to identify and describe the key events in each stage of
Grades: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade
1 votes with an average rating of 0.
Students will modify previous versions of their Edison robots to move objects on the Mars map. Students will investigate the idea of a biosphere and use their robots to move supplies to the biosphere
Grades: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade
1 votes with an average rating of 1.
Students will practice coding using Ed Blocks. They will use a given map as a target for their robot navigation with precision. The emphasis on this lesson is on making modifications and adjustments
Grades: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
1 votes with an average rating of 1.
In the Drone Light Show project, students will explore the intersection of technology, creativity, and teamwork by designing and programming their own synchronized drone light show. Utilizing DJI
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
2 votes with an average rating of 0.5.
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: 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: 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

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