Engineering Design Process | Arizona STEM Acceleration Project (ASAP)

Cardboard Construction

Grades: 7th Grade, 8th Grade

Students will learn cardboard construction through brainstorming, planning, building, and presenting creative projects, focusing on teamwork, structural integrity, and problem-solving over three class

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Prototyping Engineering Design Process Engineering

Buttons: Where Creativity Meets Innovation!

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

Button makers are great additions in the classroom! But first, students should learn the history of buttons, about the button machine and how to operate it. Challenge cards provided inspire students

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Makerspace Buttons Engineering Design Process Design

YOU Can Be an Inventor!

Grades: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade

Students will learn about the engineering design process by working in small groups to identify a problem, then design and create a solution, inspired by the main character's creativity and problem

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Literature Engineering Design Process

Engaging Student Voice in Developing Research Questions with the QFT (Question Formulation Technique)

Grades: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade

This lesson helps engage student voice in developing stronger research questions and projects on topics about which they are interested, curious, and passionate. The Question Formulation Technique

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Research Engineering Design Process

Unnecessary Inventions: Exploring the Engineering Design Process

Grades: 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade

Money, creative urge, ego, desire to help others, intellectual challenge and curiosity - inventors develop ideas for all of these reasons and all are valid, according to Invention City. During this

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Engineering Design Process Inventions

Engineering with Box Lox and Cardboard

Grades: 3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade

This lesson encourages students to use their imagination, design and construct something out of cardboard and other recyclables if you choose. Students will first be inspired by reading Pete the Cat’s

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Engineering Design Process Literature

Eco House Design and Build

Grades: 9th Grade

Students will take an amount of time to plan and build a eco friendly home. They will include four eco friendly ideas into their home both on the exterior and interior of their build. Students may

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Eco Friendly Engineering Design Process Environmental Science

Cactus Hotel and Dr. Bird to the Rescue: Birds in the Schoolyard

Grades: 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade, 4th Grade

Students learn about the gila woodpecker as well as the 5 S's of birdwatching. Students then make observations of birds in their schoolyard, summarize the findings on a graph and slideshow, and design

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Arizona Engineering Design Process Observation

Sun vs Shade

Grades: Kindergarten

Discuss with students how the size and shape of a structure helps to make different areas and shapes of shade. You might briefly discuss how some structures block the sunlight from the top only, while

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Sun Shade Engineering Design Process