A student looking in a microscope, very scientifically

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: Kindergarten, 1st Grade
In this lesson students will explore bugs and their attributes. Students will also understand the difference between an insect and a bug, use math skills such as counting and symmetry, and also have
Grades: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
This lesson is to help students create geometric shapes by writing codes to allow their robot to create the assigned shape.
Grades: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
This lesson plan is designed to give students the opportunity to learn about and implement bar graphs, line graphs, and picture graphs. Students will make physical graphs as well as digital graphs
Grades: 1st Grade

In this lesson, students will listen to the story "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" in order to understand the engineering project. Students will be introduced to the science concept of force and

Grades: 1st Grade

This 45-minute lesson uses the book, "How to Catch an Elf", to lead into a cooperative engineering design lesson where students work in teams to build a humane trap to capture an elf.

Grades: 1st Grade

Students will explore beginning coding thru binary coding and creating a name bracelet.

Grades: Kindergarten, 1st Grade

Students will listen to a story then participate in a Round Robin discussion. After the Round Robin activity, students will make a reindeer and race it against another student's reindeer.

Grades: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade

Students will use engineering skills, critical thinking, math and balance, and collaboration to build a home for a visiting Hedgehog. The materials are straws, string, wooden blocks, material/fabric

Grades: 1st Grade

In this lesson, first-grade students will explore the concept of resource sharing in nature using dioramas. The lesson is designed to help students understand that living things, such as plants and

Grades: Kindergarten, 1st Grade

This lesson integrates literature / ELA standards with Science& Engineering Practices and is designed for K-1. The lesson involves a read aloud of the story "The Little Wooden Robot and the Log

Grades: 1st Grade, 5th Grade

First Grade teams of students (3 first grade students) will work cooperatively with Fifth Grade students (1 fifth grade student per team) to explore Newton's Laws of Force and Motion by constructing

Grades: 1st Grade

In this investigation students will explore how vibrating matter creates sound and how sound can make matter vibrate.