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Space Force Recruiting Site

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Fostering Change: Ideas and Best Practices for Diversity in STEM Teaching in K-12 Classrooms

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How Do Living Things Stay Safe and Grow?
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How Do Living Things Stay Safe and Grow?

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How Does Motion Energy Change in a Collision?

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STC Program: Food Chemistry Unit Kit, 2nd Edition

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Soils– Reading Resource Extensions

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Destination Deep Space

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Studying Soils: Claims and Evidence

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Soils– Lesson 6: How Quickly Do Soils Settle in Water?

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Explore Smithsonian: Courtney Dressing - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Graduate Student

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STCMS™: Energy, Forces, and Motion

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STC–Kindergarten™: Exploring Plants and Animals Two-Use Unit Kit

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Understanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 7: Hurricanes- Destructive Storms

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Smithsonian literacy materials

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Life Cycle of Butterflies– Literacy Integration: Nonfiction 1 - Multiple Intelligence Retell

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NASA: Faces of Technology

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Channel Challenge!

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Joint Polar Orbiting Weather Satellites

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What Explains Similarities and Differences Between Organisms?

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Inquiry science is vital

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STC Program: Changes Unit Kit, 3rd Edition

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How to Best Support Your Child’s Science Learning in the Time of COVID-19

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Understanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 4: Heat Transfer and the Movement of Air

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STC Secondary: Understanding Weather and Climate

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Teaching ELL Students– Teaching Academic Vocabulary

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Interview with a Smithsonian Scientist: Dr. Santiago-Blay

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Storm Smart

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PROTEGIENDO A LES BALLENAS

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Good Thinking: Make Sense of Science Class

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How Can We Change An Object's Motion?

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