6th Grade | Arizona STEM Acceleration Project (ASAP)

How Light Behaves - Project-Based Inquiry Investigation Using Solar Panels

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

This is an introductory investigation to how light behaves in an electromagnetic spectrum unit. This is prior to any content being taught at the subject and is a way to spark inquiry and for students

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electromagnetic spectrum Solar Energy Solar Panels Light

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

Photorealistic AI image of a food web scene in a forest

Animal Adaptations: Camouflage

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

In this lesson students combine science and math standards to explore the animal adaptation: camouflage. Students engage in discussion, watch a video, complete a hands-on activity, fill out a table

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Camoflauge Biomimicry Data

Engaging Student Voice in Developing Research Questions with the QFT (Question Formulation Technique)

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

This lesson helps engage student voice in developing stronger research questions and projects on topics about which they are interested, curious, and passionate. The Question Formulation Technique

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Research Engineering Design Process

Unnecessary Inventions: Exploring the Engineering Design Process

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

Money, creative urge, ego, desire to help others, intellectual challenge and curiosity - inventors develop ideas for all of these reasons and all are valid, according to Invention City. During this

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Engineering Design Process Inventions

Building 3D: Exploring 3D Shapes

Grades: 6th Grade

In this series of lessons, students will be doing a hands-on investigation of 3D shapes and their nets, discovering Euler's formula for 3D shapes, and building both an icosahedron and a geodesic dome.

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Geometry Models

Talking Like a TedTalk

Grades: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade

Students will pick an issue that they think exists in the world and propose a solution via a presentation. This will model a TedTalk.

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Presentation Speaking science

Crafting 1:12 Scale Bedroom

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

In this project, students practice using scale by designing and crafting items for a model bedroom using a 1:12 scale ratio. They learn how to accurately shrink real-world dimensions down to miniature

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Tinkercad Scale

Calculating Energy of a Hot Wheels Car

Grades: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade

In this lesson students use a Pocketlab Voyager to collect data on a toy car as it goes down a track. Analysing the data, students calculate gravitational potential energy and Kinetic energy of the

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Energy Transfer Pocketlab Hot Wheels