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STEM Lesson Plans

Search our growing library of STEM lesson plans. Arizona teachers are contributing their best STEM lesson plans to an archive that is aligned with Arizona Academic Standards. This repository is provided free of charge through a collaboration with the Arizona Educational Foundation.

Grades: 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
Introduce the lesson topic and explain that students will learn how to design and build a simple robotic arm. Explain that robotics is the branch of engineering and computer science that deals with
Grades: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
Students will create their own cookie cutters to fill a custom order in their bakery. They will need access to 3D design software like tinkercad and access to a 3D printer. It's even more fun when you
Grades: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
In this lesson, students will show how heat transfers into an egg during the hard-boiling process, and additionally, different methods of how heat can transfer out of an egg during the cooling process
Grades: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade
This lesson plan requires the prior knowledge of the students about the different operations with Integers. This will be an activity to master the concept about integers through a DaMath game. This is
Grades: 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
In this lesson students will be introduced to the Edison Robot and coding. They will work collaboratively to code a program in EdScratch for Edison to complete. Students will work together to test and
Grades: 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
Building on the programming concepts explored in part 1, this section asks students to re-imagine the ‘spiral-out’ program to be a spiral-in program instead. Designed to be a stepping-stone activity
Grades: 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
In this lesson you will Introduce the key computational concept of variables using Edison robots and the Scratch-based programming language EdScratch4. Variables, which can be created and utilised
Grades: 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
In this lesson students review the Edison robot and coding in Edscratch. They will then work together to solve math problems and then code the edison robot to match their solution to the math