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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.

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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
9 votes with an average rating of 0.9.
This lesson takes students through the process of creating an interactive storyboard using a Makey Makey circuit board. This lesson can be adjusted for any grade level with examples given in the 4th
Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
7 votes with an average rating of 0.8.
This lesson uses Sphero's "Rocket Payload" activity with the Outer Space Mat. The full lesson includes information on rocket payload, a Sphero coding challenge, a NASA link to read, optional questions
Grades: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
5 votes with an average rating of 0.8.
This lesson is centered around the book, The World's Best Class Plant. It is intended for 1st-3rd grade. Ideally, teachers would use this lesson at the beginning of the year so they can have their
Grades: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
2 votes with an average rating of 0.
In this lesson, students design, build and test model candy cars made from simple materials. They measure the changes in distance and travel by the addition of revision of design features. Students
Grades: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
3 votes with an average rating of 0.7.
This maze activity builds all sorts of skills. Students will be improving spatial skills, logic skills, problem solving skills, math skills, technology skills, and fine motor skills Mazes provide
Grades: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade
4 votes with an average rating of 0.8.
In this lesson, K-2 students will plant seeds and use technology to track the growth of their plants. Through hands-on activities and observation, students will learn about the basic needs of plants
Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
2 votes with an average rating of 1.
This lesson is focused on solar energy, students engage in a hands-on exploration of photovoltaic cells, motors, and light bulbs to investigate the correlation between light intensity and solar power
Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
2 votes with an average rating of 1.
In this lesson plan, high school students will explore the concepts of AC and DC currents through hands-on experimentation. The lesson begins with a brief discussion on the fundamentals of alternating
Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
2 votes with an average rating of 0.5.
This lesson builds on student understanding of what how box plots summarize data sets and develops student knowledge of how to compare two sets of data using box plots and their five number summaries
Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
1 votes with an average rating of 1.
This lesson supports students in physically understanding how data values are summarized and represented with a box plot. Students will also use an online tool in order to create one.
Grades: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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Are your students fans of Formula 1? If they are or aren't this lesson will take a look into the dominance of Red Bull Racing in Formula 1. Why is Red Bull so dominant? Is it the driver or the
Grades: 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
1 votes with an average rating of 1.
This lesson plan is on how to make agar plates to grow media on. This teaches the students how to measure out the agar and water and mix properly and plate the agar properly.
Grades: 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
2 votes with an average rating of 0.5.
Students will use projectile motion as practical example to better understand how parabolas (quadratic equations) are built. Students will also tabulate x and y values on Google Spreadsheets and graph
Grades: 2nd Grade
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This lesson uses a children's literature book called Rosie Revere, Engineer. The lesson is designed to support ELA standards along with Math and SEPs. (Science and Engineering Practices) The initial
Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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The goal of this module is to learn about the production of musical sounds through the vibrations in stringed instruments. The module is expected to take place over approximately 4 class periods.
Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
1 votes with an average rating of 1.
Students pull wooden "sleds" with different masses on them over various types of surfaces with spring scales (force meters) to calculate the different coefficients of friction. Students graph the data

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This lesson takes students through the process of creating an interactive storyboard using a Makey Makey circuit board. This lesson can be adjusted for any grade level with examples given in the 4th