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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
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In China, kites have a history of more than two thousand years. Initially made of wood and shaped like birds, they later evolved to use bamboo and paper. In the 13th century, Marco Polo introduced
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: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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Students will work in small groups to create a water filtration system to demonstrate understanding of water purification systems and human influences.
Grades: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade
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An overall view of mining, minerals, and their role in our everyday life. This lesson compares the past, present and future of mining and it's relativity to sustaining our way of life.
Grades: 4th Grade, 5th Grade
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This is a simple, fun lesson to teach about air pollution. This lesson teaches students what air pollution is and what causes it. Students will put petroleum jelly on an index card, place it outside
Grades: 5th Grade
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This 5th grade lesson incorporates Mad Lib, micro:bits and learning how to code on Makecode.org. This lesson is teacher directed to walk students to add variables and text value. Students will use
Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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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
Grades: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
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Most students are likely familiar with popular films like Happy Feet, Surf’s Up, Penguins of Madagascar, and classic books like Mr. Popper's Penguins. Capitalizing on this familiarity with penguins
Grades: 7th Grade
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Learning the difference between the two cells while learning the function and structure of both cells and creating an analogy and drawing on canva to help students remember.
Grades: 4th Grade, 6th Grade
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Students learn about renewable and nonrenewable energy sources using a free resource. They are assigned a particular resource such as solar, coal, biomass ,etc. and they become an expert on that
Grades: 7th Grade
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Students will learn the parts of a microscope, the importance of them and how to use them to view specimens.
Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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A high school physics lesson plan that uses guided inquiry to help students explore the changes in potential difference across resistors connected in series & parallel.
Grades: 7th Grade, 8th Grade
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In this lesson students will work in teams to research the different parts of a drone obstacle course with the intention to build and race it themselves.
Grades: 4th Grade
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Students will understand the physics of forces: friction, pulls and pushes by using STEM concepts. This could be an end unit for students to develop and create a culminating STEM project. There are 3
Grades: 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
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This set of lessons allows students to understand circuitry through different lenses and apply this to simple circuits and electrical calculations.
Grades: 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade
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Students will explore how fashion and design inspire present-day life and influence messaging and culture. They will create a 2D design of a shoe and then a 3D rendering of a sneaker using CAD

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