P1: Matter | Arizona STEM Acceleration Project (ASAP)

Water Treatment

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

Students will work in small groups to create a water filtration system to demonstrate understanding of water purification systems and human influences.

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Water Quality Water Water Filtration

Mining - Evaluating Sustainability

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

An overall view of mining, minerals, and their role in our everyday life. This lesson compares the past, present and future of mining and it's relativity to sustaining our way of life.

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Technology Sustainability

Nanotechnology: Nanoscale

Grades: 4th Grade, 5th Grade

This lesson on nanotechnology for 4th and 5th graders introduces students to the concept of scale by exploring the incredibly small measurements used in nanotechnology. Through engaging activities

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Scale

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

Hot Air Balloons and Bernoulli's Theory of Flight

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

Students will use the principles invented by Bernoulli and Archimedes to learn about hot air balloons. Then students will create one out of tissue paper and test it!

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Bernoulli's Principle Flight Engineering

Desert Flora and Natural Dye

Grades: 5th Grade

Students will explore the history and processes of using natural dyes, focusing on Sonoran desert flora. They will use examples from colonial times from colonists as well. They will investigate how

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Natural Dyes Ecology

Fun in Fourth Grade - Build a Spectroscope!

Grades: 4th Grade

Do you need a fun culminating activity at the end of your light energy or light waves unit? Look no further! Here students will create their own spectroscope and investigate light energy and light

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Light spectroscopes

Soap Lab – Marketing Plan

Grades: 8th Grade, 9th Grade

This is the second part of the lesson: Soap Lab - Soap Making. In this lesson, students will take what they learned about soap making and develop a marketing plan for their company. Students will

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ratios marketing chemical reactions

Soap Lab – Soap Making

Grades: 8th Grade, 9th Grade

In this lesson, the phenomenon of soap making will be used to teach the chemical reactions and physical and chemical properties to middle school students.

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Math Integration chemical reactions chemical properties physical properties