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STC Assessment Guide: Ecosystems

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Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
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Fostering Change: Ideas and Best Practices for Diversity in STEM Teaching in K-12 Classrooms

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Education
The Protecting Whales teacher guide cover with a collage of images showing a mother and baby humpback whale, a whale fluke in front of a military ship, a whale fluke, and a whale fluke in front of a cargo ship.
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PROTECTING WHALES

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Grade 3
Life Science
Sustainability
Students in Benin gather around a sanitation station
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Bootons la COVID-19! Module

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Education
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How much corn could DKIST pop if DKIST could pop corn?

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Floating and Sinking– Weighing Floaters and Sinkers

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Kindergarten
Physical Science
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Ocean X Climate Summit

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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
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Operations in the NAS

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Build and use a simple spectroscope

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Earth & Space Science
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Land and Water– Lesson 2/3 The Water Cycle: Modeling Land and Water

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Kindergarten
Earth & Space Science
Curriculum

STC Program: Electrical Energy and Circuit Design Unit Kit

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Grade 6
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Physical Science
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Explore Smithsonian: How Can Electricity Correct a Telescope in Outer Space?

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Grade 6
Grade 7
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Physical Science
Webcast

IDEAS in STEM: Building Relationships

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STC Assessment Guide: Microworlds

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Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
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We're the Smithsonian Science Education Center!

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Education
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Understanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 5: Investigating the Effects of Colliding Air Masses

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Grade 6
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Earth & Space Science
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Explore Smithsonian: How do Scientists Sample Populations of Fish and Invertebrates Along the Shorelines?

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Grade 6
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Grade 8
Life Science
Sustainability
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Elementary Weather Lesson

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Grade 1
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Grade 5
Kindergarten
Earth & Space Science
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Animal Studies– Materials and Organizations

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Kindergarten
Life Science
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Why Right Brained is Wrong…Brained

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Education
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Space Weather

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Space Mission Operations

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Earth & Space Science
Curriculum

STC Secondary: Exploring the Properties of Matter Unit

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Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Chemistry
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Interview with a Smithsonian Scientist: Dr. Michael Wise

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Earth & Space Science
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Cells In Space: Helping Astronauts and Injured Soldiers

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Earth & Space Science
Curriculum

STC Secondary: Exploring Respiration and Circulation

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Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Life Science
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Sound– Lesson 1: Thinking about Sound

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Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
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Grade 5
Kindergarten
Physical Science
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Learning Science Through Inquiry

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Shrinking Sutures

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Grade 4
Grade 5
Grade 6