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What Do Plants And Animals Need To Live?

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

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STC-Secondary™: Researching the Sun-Earth-Moon System

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What Explains Similarities and Differences Between Organisms?

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Spaceports by State

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STC Literacy Series™: Weather

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Hands-on science and non-English speakers

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Life Cycle of Butterflies– Lesson 14: Discovering that Butterflies are Insects

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Land and Water– Lesson 2/3 The Water Cycle: Modeling Land and Water

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Earth Observation User Case: Using Landsat to Connect Space to Village

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Storm Smart

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USPTO's National Summer Teacher Institute

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Department of Education Learning with NASA is Out of this World

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Experimenting with Mixtures, Compounds, and Elements– Organization!

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Distance Learning and Digital Resources from the Smithsonian

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Kenny Harris, Senior Project Engineer - STEM Literacy Project

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STC Assessment Guide: Organisms

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Moving Assessment from the Dessert Menu to the List of Entrees

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Earth Optimism Student Video Competition: Conserving Coral Reefs

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Explore Smithsonian: How Can Electricity Correct a Telescope in Outer Space?

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That’s so Meta(cognitive)!

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Motion and Design– Lesson 1: Designing Vehicles: Getting Started

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Inquiry-Based Science Fosters 21st Century Skills

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STC Program: Sound Unit Kit, 3rd Edition

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Collège les Colliberts Group 2 Capstone Video

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STC Program: Electric Circuits Unit Kit, 3rd Edition

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Explore Smithsonian: How do Scientists Track and Monitor Blue Crab Populations in the Chesapeake Bay?

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Explore Smithsonian: What can we Learn from Lion Poop?

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Commercial Space Data

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English Learners in STEM: Realia Wall and Sentence Frames

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