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The yellow cover of the grade 1 engineering teachers guide
Curriculum

How Can We Send a Message Using Sound?

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Grade 1
Engineering Design
LASER Focused on English Learners: PD plus an inquiry-based science curriculum improves K-8 teachers' perceived ability to support ELs and reduces the achievement gap in math and reading
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LASER Focused on English Learners - OELA 2020 Poster

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Education
Image of the yellow sun in the bottom right corner and text that says journey to the sun above and to the left of the sun
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Journey to the Sun

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Illustration of a rocket launch with text saying Go For Launch FAA.gov/space
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Commercial Space Data

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Satellite image of the Milky Way galaxy
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Milky Way Explorer

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Earth & Space Science
Styling Sun Safety activity cover
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Styling Sun Safety

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Grade 1
Kindergarten
Illustration of a woman at a computer writing on paper
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Earth Observation User Case: Using Landsat to Connect Space to Village

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Earth & Space Science
Sustainability
An artistic rendering of a spacecraft with grey body and solar panels.
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Spacecraft Subsystems

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Earth & Space Science
Image of a woman Erin Pettyjohn physicist
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Chill Out: Tiny Refrigerator Saves Hubble Camera

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Earth & Space Science
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STC Literacy Series™: Magnets and Motors, Pack of 8

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Grade 5
Grade 6
Curriculum

STC Program: Food Chemistry Unit Kit, 3rd Edition

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Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Video

Explore Smithsonian: How Can We Know About the Reproductive Cycle of an Animal by Its Poop?

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Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Life Science
Image the Fostering Change Playbook
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Fostering Change: Ideas and Best Practices for Diversity in STEM Teaching in K-12 Classrooms

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Education
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Exploring Plate Tectonics– Recording Earthquake Waves

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Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Earth & Space Science
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2013 Biodiversity: Smithsonian Science Education Academy for Teachers

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Education
Photo of a beam of light coming from a flashlight
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How Can I Win a Game of Flashlight Tag?

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Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Kindergarten
Physical Science
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¡Food! ¿Cómo podemos garantizar una buena nutrició para todos?

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Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
High School
Sustainability
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Smithsonian Science for Global Goals

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Sustainability
Curriculum

STC-Secondary™: Investigating Biodiversity and Interdependence

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Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Life Science
Curriculum

STC Program: Land and Water Unit Kit, 2nd Edition

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Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
A lighthouse between two palm trees
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How Would You Design a Lighthouse?

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Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Kindergarten
Engineering Design
The cover of A Weighty Problem grade 5 teacher guide with a collage of pictures depicting hiking gear, girls in science class, a boy hiking and a scale with a water and powder mixture.
Curriculum

A WEIGHTY PROBLEM

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Grade 5
Physical Science
Curriculum

STC Program: Soils Unit Kit, 3rd Edition

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Grade 1
Grade 2
Kindergarten
A square with a rocket launch in the bottom right corner text saying Ticket to Space in the top right corner and text saying the Air Up There in the bottom left corner.
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Podcast: Ticket to Space

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Animal Studies– Materials Management

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Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Kindergarten
Life Science
Smithsonian Science for the Classroom Grade 3 Life Science Cover
Curriculum

What Explains Similarities and Differences Between Organisms?

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Grade 3
Life Science
Illustration of a rocket launch with text saying Go For Launch FAA.gov/space
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Spaceports by State

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Large hadron collider
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Magnetism - Defending Our Planet, Defining The Cosmos

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Earth & Space Science
Curriculum

STC Program: Electric Circuits Unit Kit, 3rd Edition

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Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
the blue cover of grade 4 physical science teachers guide
Curriculum

How Can We Predict Patterns of Motion?

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Grade 3
Physical Science