1st Grade | Arizona STEM Acceleration Project (ASAP)

Tracking Plant Growth with Technology

Grades: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade

In this lesson, K-2 students will plant seeds and use technology to track the growth of their plants. Through hands-on activities and observation, students will learn about the basic needs of plants

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Exploring Weather Patterns with Technology, K-2

Grades: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade

This lesson is designed for K-2 students to explore and understand weather patterns using technology. Over the course of 45 minutes, students will use tablets or computers to gather real-time weather

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Weather Data Educational Technology

Designing Maze Challenges with Code & Go Robot Mice!

Grades: Kindergarten, 1st Grade

In this lesson, students will play a small group coding game to retell the events in the read aloud, If You Take A Mouse To School, and then use the Engineering Design Process to plan, design, and

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Literature Coding Code and Go Mice

Introducing Code & Go Mice Robots

Grades: Kindergarten, 1st Grade

In this lesson, students will be introduced to coding with the read aloud Mouse Count, play a simple Bottle Cap Arrow Game to learn directionality, and learn to program their Code & Go Mice with arrow

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Coding Code and Go Mice Robotics Literature

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

Roller Coaster Made of Cardboard and Recycled Materials

Marvelous Marble Mazes: Exploring Motion with Marbles Part 2

Grades: 1st Grade

Students will review different types of motion previously learned in Part 1. They will construct, review, and analyze a marble maze including the different types of motion to extend their learning.

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Force and Motion Energy Kinetic Energy

Marvelous Marbles: Exploring Motion with Marbles Part 1

Grades: 1st Grade

Students will read and study types of movements and forces. They will draw examples of things that move in different ways. Then they will create a marble painting using the different movements and

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Art Energy Kinetic Energy Force and Motion

Big Bad Bubbles!

Grades: 1st Grade

This is a first grade design challenge based on a book. The book can be used to teach a mindset of facing fears. Once the book is read, students will create a monster like the ones in the book. After

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Bubbles Literature Engineering Design Process

Photorealistic AI image of a food web scene in a forest

Coding the Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Grades: 1st Grade

Students are fascinated by living creatures, including butterflies! Spring in Arizona brings many butterflies, presenting a perfect opportunity for teachers to focus on teaching the life cycle of

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Butterflies Coding Life Cycle