Life Science | Arizona STEM Acceleration Project (ASAP)

KIDStruction 2024: STEM Opportunity for Middle School Students in Southern AZ, Part 2 (Emphasis on Build Phase)

Grades: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade

This lesson is a follow up to a previous STEM contest lesson that detailed the KIDStruction opportunity & focused on the design phase. This lesson is intended to support the building phase and is

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KIDStruction Engineering Design Process

Photosynthesis In The Desert

Grades: 3rd Grade

The lesson objective is to develop an enduring understanding of desert plants (especially cacti), conduct photosynthesis, and how their structures function to help them survive in the desert. An

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Art Photosynthesis Arizona

We Are Water Protectors & Ozobots

Grades: 2nd Grade

This 2nd grade lesson incorporate the book, We are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom, and Ozobots. Students will discuss the beginning and ending of the story and discuss how characters respond to

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Ozobot Water Literature

Nanotechnology: Nanoscale

Grades: 4th Grade, 5th Grade

This lesson on nanotechnology for 4th and 5th graders introduces students to the concept of scale by exploring the incredibly small measurements used in nanotechnology. Through engaging activities

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Scale

Cash Cow Lab Experiment

Grades: 9th Grade

This is a cash cow lab experiment, students are going to apply their experiment at the lab. it's a biotech labs that uses the fact that molecules of different sizes move at different speeds

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Animal Science Molecules Agriculture

Halt, Who Goes [in/out] There? Structure and Function of the Cell Membrane in Different Environments

Grades: 7th Grade

The purpose of this lesson is to engage 7th-grade students in a hands-on investigation of how salt concentrations affect plant cells. By exploring the process of osmosis, students will gain a deeper

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Scientific Method Cell Membrane Model

Penguin Protectors: Understanding Climate Change, Math, Properties of Water, Conservation of Matter and Teamwork with Penguins

Grades: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade

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

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Habitats Natural Selection Climate Change

Natural Selection: Lizards

Grades: 3rd Grade

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

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Natural Selection Graphing

Animal vs Plant Cells

Grades: 7th Grade

Learning the difference between the two cells while learning the function and structure of both cells and creating an analogy and drawing on canva to help students remember.

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Microscopes Cells