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: 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade
Students will create their own cut-out stop motion animation videos using the iMotion app. List of Materials iPads-1 per pair iMotion App or similar Construction paper Scissors Tape/ Glue Storyboard
Grades: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade
The objective of this lesson is simply to introduce students to vermicomposting by explaining what it is and getting our bins set up. In 60 minutes, you will be able to discuss: What is recycling
Grades: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade
This lesson takes place in a classroom for one or more hours. Students are put in small groups of 2 to 4 people. Target: Is to make a kite that can fly with all the necessary parts. Creative solutions
Grades: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade
This is lesson 4 out of a unit of 4 lessons about habitats. In the preceeding lessons, students researched habitats and animal adaptations. This lesson is a presentation of information using a variety
Grades: 3rd Grade
Students will discover that technology is not limited to electronics and cars, but that it is all around us. It is essential for students to understand that most things were created to serve a purpose
Grades: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade
An alternative way of farming to encourage people in a community that does not have agricultural land. Vertical farming is often a suggested solution for urban gardening and farming.
Grades: 3rd Grade
SUMMARY: This lesson challenges 3rd grade students to apply their knowledge of the physics of light by having them design, create, and test an obstacle course that their beam of light must navigate