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How Can We Find the Best Place for a Plant to Grow? Teacher Guide
Curriculum

How Can We Find the Best Place for a Plant to Grow?

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Grade 2
Life Science
Sustainability
A lighthouse between two palm trees
Resource

How Would You Design a Lighthouse?

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Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Kindergarten
Engineering Design
Curriculum

STC Program: Animal Studies Unit Kit, 2nd Edition

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Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Video

Literacy Tool Use as an Integral Feature of Students’ “Science ing”

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Education
Video

We're the Smithsonian Science Education Center!

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Education
Image of a man giving a lecture in front of a satellite in a museum
Resource

Ask an Expert -- The Corona Spy Satellite

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Earth & Space Science
Cover of the Grade 5 Earth science teacher guide cover
Curriculum

How Can We Use the Sky to Navigate?

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Grade 5
Earth & Space Science
Image of cover of Dressed to protect activity
Resource

Dressed to Protect

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Video

Life Cycles of Butterflies– Lesson 8: Observing the Crysalis - Moving the Crysalis Properly

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Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Kindergarten
Life Science
Large hadron collider
Resource

Magnetism - Defending Our Planet, Defining The Cosmos

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Earth & Space Science
Weather Widget Cover
Resource

Weather Widget

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Curriculum

STC Program: Rocks and Minerals Unit Kit, 2nd Edition

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Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Video

Sound– Lesson 1: Thinking about Sound

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Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Kindergarten
Physical Science
Video

Exploring Planetary Systems– Other Surface Features: Don't Hurry the Slurry

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Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Earth & Space Science
Video

Sound– Notebooking

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Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Kindergarten
Physical Science
How Do Living Things Stay Safe and Grow?
Resource

How Do Living Things Stay Safe and Grow?

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Grade 1
Life Science
Video

Animal Studies–Science Vocabulary

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Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Kindergarten
Life Science
Video

Motion and Design– "The Explore Build" Extension Activity

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Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Kindergarten
Physical Science
Curriculum

STCMS™: Weather and Climate Systems

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Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Earth & Space Science
Resource

STC Literacy Series™: Weather

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Grade 1
Grade 2
Kindergarten
Image of 3D printed water filter
Resource

Filter Fun!

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Engineering Design
Smithsonian Institution | Dr. Carol O'Donnell | Director, Smithsonian Science Education Center
Video

Global Inspiration | Dr. Carol O'Donnell | Smithsonian | January

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Video

Learning Without Borders (Carol O’Donnell, 2018)

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Education
Cover of Space Systems Exploration
Curriculum

STCMS™: Space Systems Exploration (2018)

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Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Earth & Space Science
Vaccines Cover
Curriculum

Vaccines! How can we use science to help our community make decisions about vaccines?

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Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
High School
Sustainability
Curriculum

STC Secondary: Experimenting with Forces and Motion

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Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Physical Science
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Resource

Cells In Space: Helping Astronauts and Injured Soldiers

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Earth & Space Science
NSF logo of blue globe surrounded by yellow spikes and text that says NSF
Resource

Build and use a simple spectroscope

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Earth & Space Science
Title screen for the educational life science game, Morphy.
Game

Morphy

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Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Life Science
Screenshot of info graphic on Digital Initiatives in STEM Education
Resource

Digital Initiatives in STEM Education

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