Engineering | Arizona STEM Acceleration Project (ASAP)

DIY Escape Room

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

Students (or teacher) create an escape room to align with any math (or science or any subject) standards. Can incorporate various technology (chromebooks, laser pointers, etc and students will need to

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Escape Room Engineering

Photorealistic AI image of a food web scene in a forest

FROG GOTCHA YOUR TONGUE ?

Grades: 6th Grade

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.

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Frogs Adaptations Animals Engineering

Building a Labyrinth on School Campus

Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade

Students will understand and apply geometric concepts such as symmetry, angles, and scaling in the context of labyrinth design.

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Labyrinth Engineering Outdoors Scale Angles

The Great Gatsby’s Eco-Friendly Art Deco Design Project

Grades: 11th Grade, 12th Grade

Students will design and build eco-friendly Art Deco-inspired miniatures of party venues from "The Great Gatsby" by learning principles of geometry, engineering, and sustainability, and culminating in

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Literature Art Engineering

3D Printing a Bubble Wand

Grades: 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade

This lesson was for 2nd/3rd graders in an after-school class. Students were not familiar with 3D printing or Tinkercad. We spent 3 days to complete. Day 1 was learning about 3D printing, opening

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3D Printing Engineering

Plants on the Moon? Part 2

Grades: 4th Grade, 5th Grade

This lesson is part 2 of a lesson based off of the Artemis Roads II developed by NASA. It moves from the research of the project to the engineering aspect.

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greenhouse Engineering Research

Plants on the Moon?

Grades: 4th Grade, 5th Grade

This lesson is based off of the Artemis Roads II lesson developed by NASA. Students will be researching and developing a biome/lunar greenhouse. This is part 1 of 2 of the lesson plan.

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Research Space Engineering greenhouse

Rocketry, Newton's Laws of Motion, Impulse and Momentum

Grades: 11th Grade, 12th Grade

In this lesson, students build and launch their own rockets. They then analyze and explain the motion of the rocket using the cause-mechanism-effect framework.

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Engineering Rockets Newton's Laws

Frankenstein: STEM Argumentative Research Project

Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade

This STEM Argumentative Research Project engages students in exploring the scientific, ethical, and societal implications of themes in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein." Students will work in groups to

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Literature literacy integration Engineering