4. Innovative Designer | Arizona STEM Acceleration Project (ASAP)

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

Global Science Opera: STEAM in Your Classroom!

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

Want to incorporate the Arts into your 7-12 STEM classroom? The Global Science Opera provides a way to do just that! Learn how to facilitate a STEAM collaboration with arts teachers to make it happen.

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Space Opera Music

Battlebot Spheros

Grades: 6th Grade

Students are challenged to create a battlebot that will be powered by a sphero and compete against other bots. Each bot will have an inflated balloon attached to the back. The objective is to pop

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Sphero Robotics

Navigating Science with Bee-Bots

Grades: 1st Grade

Welcome to an exhilarating journey of problem-solving and exploration with Bee-Bots! In this captivating adventure, students will embark on a thrilling quest to navigate through challenging mazes

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Bee-Bots Robotics Programming

Coding a Drone to Fly on Mars: Three More Complex Missions! (2 of 2)

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

On the second day students use more complex coding, the built in camera for taking pictures and experience FPV. It has 3 missions total in this lesson. This lesson also uses yaw to keep the camera

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Drones Coding

Coding a Drone to Fly on Mars or in a City Park! Plan 1 of 2

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

Coding and flying drones what a match! Students will have the chance to experiment with flying a drone in a simulator. The lesson includes 4 missions incorporating forces of flight acting on a drone.

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Drones Coding

Microbit Career Cardboard Robot

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

This lesson integrates technology (microbits), engineering design, and career exploration for middle school students. It encourages hands-on learning and critical thinking through the creation of

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Robotics Technology Coding

Fashion Meets Tech- Ugly Sweater Holiday Project

Grades: 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade

Students use the engineering design process to plan, create, code, and share a unique, functioning illuminating e-textile sweater using a Circuit Playground Express (CPX).

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Fashion Circuits Sewing Coding

The Physics of Street Light

Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade

In this lesson, students will explore the key physics principles that govern the design and operation of street lighting systems. Through a hands-on engineering design challenge, students will apply

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Electricity Electrical Systems Optics Engineering