English Language Arts (ELA) | Arizona STEM Acceleration Project (ASAP)

Cracking the Code: DNA Detectives Unravel Life's Family Tree

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

In this engaging lesson, students will delve into the fascinating world of phylogenetics, using the DNA sequences and genetic information of their selected organisms to construct an automated

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Genetics Phylogeny

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

Kinetic vs Potential Energy: Discovering that Less is More

Grades: 5th Grade

Students will build and use pom pom shooters to conduct an investigation into kinetic vs potential energy. Students will measure the distance their pom pom travels and make conclusions about the

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Kinetic Energy Potential Energy

Drones: Using English as a Programming Language

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

Students will learn the importance of clear, precise communication by directing a partner to navigate a drone through an obstacle course. This exercise will draw parallels to writing clear and

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Drones

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

Growing, Growing, Gone!

Grades: 6th Grade

Students discover how plants and soils interact by observing root growth, considering the function of a plant’s roots, modeling the movement of water into the roots, and investigating the movement of

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Plants Gardening

Unmixing Mixtures

Grades: 5th Grade

This lesson introduces a phenomenon to start a unit on the properties of matter. Students will plan and carry out a investigation of an unknown mixture and collect data. In doing so, they will begin

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Matter Properties of Matter Data

Buttons: Where Creativity Meets Innovation!

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

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

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Makerspace Buttons Engineering Design Process Design

YOU Can Be an Inventor!

Grades: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade

Students will learn about the engineering design process by working in small groups to identify a problem, then design and create a solution, inspired by the main character's creativity and problem

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Literature Engineering Design Process