Grades:
6th Grade
In this lesson students will identify different types of sustainable housing, engage in depth learning with hands on experience of what it takes to build a home from the outside to the inside
Grades:
8th Grade, 9th Grade
In this lesson, students will embark on an investigative journey to explore the geological history of their local community. Through hands-on activities and research, students will analyze rock layers
Grades:
3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
This lesson is intended to expose students to information about environmental changes and how solar energy affects living things. Students are challenged to design and build a shelter for a dog to
Grades:
10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
A look at all of the anatomy homeostatic responses that the body has. Each section has a lab or calculations.
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade
Students use Play-Doh to model deposition of rock layers and then folding and faulting. This is to help students understand relative ages of rock layers and introduces the ideas of the laws of
Grades:
7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
In this lesson students will think back on all of the coding skills they have learned and will plan out their code to fly their drone through their maze based on sensor feedback. It is important that
Grades:
3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade
This is the third lesson in a series of 4 lessons that correlate to the novel "Space Case" by Stuart Gibbs. This set of lessons is based on chapters 8 - 14. The lessons include creating a timeline
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
This is a lesson plan which draws importance to the ability of trees to carbon sequester in urban areas. As the world urbanizes more and more each day, it is important for our health to emphasize
Grades:
8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade
This is part of an Ecology Unit, where students will create a food web using a set of cards. Students will identify the organisms in the different trophic levels, create a series of food chains, then
Grades:
4th Grade
This lesson explores light energy, hydroponics, and metric measurement conversions (mm, cm, m). Students will identify the ways that different colors of light energy can affect plant growth. They will
Grades:
7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
This is a lesson geared toward junior high and high school classes to introduce students to the idea of cryptography and encryption. This lesson could be simplified for younger students by removing
Grades:
4th Grade, 5th Grade
This lesson is about the Petrified Forest National Park here in Arizona. It teaches students about the National Park. It also has a lab showing students how things like wood become petrified!
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Planarian Regeneration
Grades:
3rd Grade
In this engaging lesson, students will explore human regenerative medicines through the planarian's ability to regenerate. Planarians have specials cells that allow themselves to modify and regrow
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
What would you do if you were dropped into the wilderness, with nothing but what you could fit into a backpack, and had to survive harsh weather, a hostile location, and possibly aggressive wildlife
Grades:
4th Grade
This lesson is in collaboration with the National Park Service and contains additional activities from the Jr. Ranger program. Using the NPS brochure guide/map and Plantnet app, students will identify
Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
In this creative lesson, students choose to be heroes saving an endangered species or to be villains eradicating an endangered species. They create their origin story, finance a plan, and end with a
Grades:
Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade
This hands-on lesson introduces students to gardening and the sustainability of food. Students will grow small gardens and manage them.
Grades:
10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
In this hands-on lesson, students study and record water quality readings by gaining an understanding of the significance of the readings along with the use of the correct vocabulary.
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
Students will create an engineering notebook that documents their progress through the engineering design process as it applies to their choice of project, either creating a toy from “trash” or a
Grades:
8th Grade
In this fun and engaging lesson, students will use the ASU Monster Maker Game for a fun project that assesses students on dominant and recessive alleles, genotype, phenotype, Punnett Squares, and
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A Very Hungry Robot: Lesson 2
Grades:
1st Grade
In this lesson, students will relate The Very Hungry Caterpillar to a butterfly's life cycle. Students will learn the four main parts of a butterfly's life cycle and then use the indi robot to create
Grades:
7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade
This outstanding multi-day lesson covers the anatomical design of the respiratory system. Students will work on a basic model project to simulate breathing action and the diaphragm. They will also
Grades:
10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
A lesson on what diabetes is, what is the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, creating a food diary, how the sugar gets into cells, how to count carbs, and how people with Type 1 diabetes
Grades:
11th Grade, 12th Grade
In this engaging lesson, students take a look at the effects of dehydration and over hydration on the body and electrical conductivity of the heart. They will also learn about what electrolytes are
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Grades:
9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
This is a great opportunity to show students that coding can be a lot of fun, and it doesn’t have to be scary. Many high school students with little to no prior coding experience often automatically
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A Shocking Dystopia: STEM Adventures in The City of Ember Part 4 of 4: Where the River Goes
Grades:
4th Grade
This lesson is PART 4 of a four-lesson unit, which focuses on futures thinking, the phenomenon of electricity, closed-system agriculture, and water as a renewable energy resource. “The City of Ember”
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A Shocking Dystopia: STEM Adventures in The City of Ember Part 3 of 4: A Problem in the Greenhouse
Grades:
4th Grade
This lesson is PART 3 of a four-lesson unit, which focuses on futures thinking, the phenomenon of electricity, closed-system agriculture, and water as a renewable energy resource. “The City of Ember”