3rd Grade | Arizona STEM Acceleration Project (ASAP)

Robot Art With Edison

Grades: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade

In this engaging and hands-on lesson, students will explore the intersection of art and technology by designing and constructing a marker holder for a robot, allowing it to create artwork. Using the

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Art Robotics Edison Robots Engineering Design Process Creativity Design Problem Solving

STEM Tank! Part 2

Grades: 3rd Grade

Students will go through the engineering design process to come up with a product that will solve a real life problem. By the end of the unit, students will design their product, make their product

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Engineering Design Process Real World Problem Solving Shark Tank Critical Thinking Money Business Design Creativity

Roller Coaster Made of Cardboard and Recycled Materials

LEGO Marble Mazes

Grades: 3rd Grade

In this 45-minute lesson, 3rd graders will design and build LEGO marble mazes, learning engineering and math concepts. They experiment, design, test, and present their mazes, fostering creativity

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Game Creation Engineering Measurement Data Problem Solving Critical Thinking Design LEGOs

Photorealistic AI image of a food web scene in a forest

Make Room for Mushrooms: Part 2

Grades: 3rd Grade

Continue the exploration of fungi and harvest the grown mushrooms in the classroom with this engaging lesson! Students will build a model of a chosen mushroom type, taste test and record observations

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Plants Gardening Engineering Plant Growth Observation

Make Room for Mushrooms: Part 1

Grades: 3rd Grade

Explore the world of fungi by exposing students to how mushrooms grow, the differences between plants and fungi, growing mushroom examples in the classroom, dissecting various mushroom samples and

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Gardening Plants Plant Structure and Function Plant Growth Observation

Rocket Science

Grades: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade

This lesson is a great introduction for space exploration units. This plan goes over the history of rockets, how they work, and how modern rockets help us explore the solar system. There are 2 hands

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Rockets Engineering Space Critical Thinking Observation

Force and the Pioneer Whirligig

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

We begin with the observation of a phenomenon - the spinning pioneer button. Students make their own spinning pioneer button and experiment with different lengths of string. With teacher input and

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Simple Machines Engineering Force Model Torque Observation

Creating and Interpreting Scaled Picture Graphs and Bar Graphs

Grades: 3rd Grade

Students will use math and technology to create and interpret scaled picture graphs and bar graphs. Students will learn how to create scaled picture graphs and bar graphs to represent a data set with

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Graphing Data ELA Integration Educational Technology

Cardboard Automata Tinkering - STEAM Lesson

Grades: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade

This engineering design STEAM lesson is intended to be introduced as a playful and inventive approach to learning simple machines. Students explore levers, cams, cam followers, linkages, and other

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Simple Machines Automata