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How Can We Protect and Clean Earth's Water?

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A group of students around s model of the Martian surface.
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DoD STARBASE

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Earth & Space Science
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Lycée Sainte Marie Bastide Capstone Video

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Stories of Women in STEM: Biotechnology

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Cover of the grade 4 life science teacher guide with the title how can animals use their senses to communicate and images of fireflies, birds and eyes
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How Can Animals Use Their Senses To Communicate?

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Match The Pitch!

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Climate Action! How can we mitigate human impacts on the atmosphere?

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Ecosystems– Lesson 2: Setting up the Terrarium

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A Brief History of Quantum Mechanics - with Sean Carroll

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NOAA Data in the Classroom

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360 Photos

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Life Cycle of Butterflies– Literacy Integration: Fiction

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Life Science
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What’s the “Matter” with Cells and Atoms?

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Distance Learning and Digital Resources from the Smithsonian

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STC Literacy Series™: Balancing and Weighing

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Kindergarten
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STC Literacy Series™: Electric Circuits

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Space Dynamics Lab STEM K-12

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LASER Focused: A Model for Teaching Inquiry-Based Science to English Learners - 2017-2018 District Report: Aurora Public Schools
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LASER 2017-2018 District Report Highlights: Aurora Public Schools

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Illustration of the earth from space and a orbit around it.
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Conservation of Energy & Momentum

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English Learners in STEM: Language Log

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Working in groups

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STC Program: Organisms - From Macro to Micro Unit Kit

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Life Science
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Digital Initiatives in STEM Education

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Margarita Mora - Earth Optimism Summit 2017

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Student Notebooking– Keeping a Teacher Book

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STC Program: Solids and Liquids Unit Kit, 2nd Edition

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Grade 3
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Kindergarten
A group of 6 middle school kids in front of a projector screen with a green boarder with illustrated globes
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Collège les Colliberts Group 2 Capstone Video

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Exclusive: Get An Inside Look At The US Space Force

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Artistic rendering of a satellite orbiting the moon.
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NASA: Faces of Technology

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A full moon above a treeline.
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Introduction to Moon Trees

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