1st Grade | Arizona STEM Acceleration Project (ASAP)

Ndee Apache Head Body Parts

Grades: Kindergarten, 1st Grade

Students will learn about the parts on their head, how they help their five senses, and how to say it in Apache. Students will also practice their measuring skills in order to measure their head.

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Senses Language Art

Tiny Engineers, Big Idea: Modeling After Insects

Grades: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade

In this lesson, students will learn how insects build sustainable homes and model the insect homes to design a settlement on Mars using the concept of biomimicry. In this lesson, the students will

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Tinkercad Biomimicry Engineering

STEM Storytelling: The Three Little Pigs Build Houses

Grades: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade

Students will dive into STEM, literacy, and math concepts through the timeless story of The Three Little Pigs! Students will explore materials by comparing the properties of straw, sticks, and bricks

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Literature literacy integration Engineering

Friction Mission

Grades: 1st Grade

First-grade students get hands-on experience with heat from friction. This lesson provides opportunities to explore with friction, record and evaluate data, and design a vehicle using materials that

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Friction

Growing Microgreens… and Eating Them Too!

Grades: 1st Grade

Students will develop and use models to explain how living things use resources to grow and survive; design and evaluate habitats for organisms using earth materials. Students will then experience how

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Plants Data

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Makey Makey Storyboards

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

This lesson takes students through the process of creating an interactive storyboard using a Makey Makey circuit board. This lesson can be adjusted for any grade level with examples given in the 4th

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Makey Makey Circuits Electrical Currents Engineering teachSTEM

Photorealistic AI image of a food web scene in a forest

Measure a Habitat

Grades: 1st Grade

This lesson focuses on animal habitats, as well as nonstandard unit measuring and data tables! The students will research an animal of their choice and identify what it needs in its habitat, as well

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Ecology Engineering Math Integration

A Natural Shelter

Grades: 1st Grade

Students will be exploring natural resources and 10's and 1's through this hands-on engineering project! The students will create a shelter for an animal out of natural resources they have collected

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Ecology Engineering Math Integration

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Ozobot When Things Aren't Going Right, Go Left

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

This lesson using Ozobot is centered around a favorite read aloud, "When Things Aren't Going Right, Go Left". This story is about perseverance. After reading it, students use color code directions and

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Robotics Engineering Computer Science ELA Integration