Kindergarten | Arizona STEM Acceleration Project (ASAP)

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

Groundhog Day: Investigating Shadows and Light

Grades: Kindergarten

In this Kindergarten STEM lesson, students explore the concepts of light and shadows using Groundhog Day as a thematic starting point. The lesson begins with an engaging introduction through a SciShow

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Holidays Groundhogs Day Shadows Math Integration

Building a Boat for the Gingerbread Man

Grades: Kindergarten

Students will design and build a boat for the Gingerbread Man using aluminum foil, straws, and popsicle sticks. They will test and improve their designs while learning about buoyancy and basic

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buoyancy Engineering Design Process Literature

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

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

Seed Investigation

Grades: Kindergarten, 1st Grade

This lesson is intended to teach students where seeds come from to grow fruits and vegetables. Students will participate in a seed investigation by reading a story and then finding seeds in various

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Counting Seeds Gardening Life Cycle

Coding Coyotes in the Desert

Grades: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade

Using the book There Was a Coyote Who Swallowed a Flea, students will participate in a lesson about desert animals, learn facts about coyotes, then work in small groups to code "coyote" robots to

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Arizona Coding Literature Ecosystems

“A Whole New World” (Soil Exploration Unit) Part 3: Compost Community

Grades: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade

Teachers don't talk trash, they talk COMPOST!! Compost is the best way to teach students the value of community as they create a Classroom Compost Program. In this 3-day introductory lesson, students

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Composting Vermicomposting Worm Farms