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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.

Grades: 5th Grade
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This lesson has an emphasis on explaining what is force. It also has an emphasis on explaining how you can see and measure force. For this lesson you need several empty plastic bottles, rubber bands
Grades: 10th Grade
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The lesson plan is about energy transfer in an ecosystem using beads. Students will participate in an interactive simulation about energy transfer. They will collect data and ultimately create a class
Grades: 5th Grade, 6th Grade
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This hands-on lesson has students create a barometer using a jar, balloon, stir stick and tape. They collect data over a span of time and graph it to understand how a barometer works and how it
Grades: 5th Grade
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This engaging lesson places an emphasis on how oil adversely affects the environment and animal habitats. Students complete a hands-on activity to replicate an oil spill and then develop a
Grades: 4th Grade
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Students will be able to design a method of protection for the Earth’s land that would withstand the impact of rainfall on soil and prevent erosion. Students will discover that the soil with
Grades: 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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This will be a 1 class period laboratory. It should take about 45-60 minutes. Students will be making a wet-mount slide of pollen that they collected or that was provided. They can look at prepared
Grades: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
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In this hands-on lesson, students will consider what they think about several different closed systems. Then students will design and carry out investigations of living things to inform their closed

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Grades: 3rd Grade
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In this lesson students will discover harmful effects and chemical makeups of artificial ingredients, specifically food coloring and red dyes. Students will experiment with and demonstrate capillary