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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
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Students will begin looking at how substances are made up of elements and use a model to show how atoms can arrange to make substances and then rearrange to make other substances. Students start by
Grades: 5th Grade
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Students will use technology and math to research and design a 7 Day Road Trip. Students will be required to think critically and apply math to real-world situations. This project engaging and student
Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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The goal of this module is to learn about the production of musical sounds through the vibrations in stringed instruments. The module is expected to take place over approximately 4 class periods.
Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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Students pull wooden "sleds" with different masses on them over various types of surfaces with spring scales (force meters) to calculate the different coefficients of friction. Students graph the data
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: 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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Students will investigate different counting methods to find out total number of outcomes to be applied in probabilities. They will learn about fundamental counting principle, permutations, and
Grades: 4th Grade
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What is a tessellation? How do you know if an image is a tessellation, truly? In this lesson, 4th grade students will engage in an examination of images to identify whether or not they are
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: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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Button makers are great additions in the classroom! But first, students should learn the history of buttons, about the button machine and how to operate it. Challenge cards provided inspire students
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: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade
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This lesson encourages students to use their imagination, design and construct something out of cardboard and other recyclables if you choose. Students will first be inspired by reading Pete the Cat’s
Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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This lesson can be used as a formative assessment on Static Equilibrium of a horizontal meter stick that has two masses hanging from the meter stick. One of the mass values is provided, the 2nd mass
Grades: 1st Grade
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In this first grade set of lessons, students will participate in science, math, experiments, and literature questions. Read Apples by Gail Gibbons and learn about the importance of washing your hands.
Grades: 8th Grade
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Students will understand the relationship between physical movement and energy production, and apply this knowledge to determine how much physical activity is required to power various household items
Grades: 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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In this lab, students will extract copper from Copper (II) Sulfate using Iron. Students will balance the equation, label the equation, calculate molar mass, calculate the limiting reactant and excess

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