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How Can I Win a Game of Flashlight Tag?

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

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Cover of Smithsonian Science for the Classroom teacher guide with a blue background and 12 images in circles with bicyclists, magnets, and a tire swing
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How Can We Use Patterns To Predict Motion?

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Grade 3
Physical Science
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How Can We Change An Object's Motion?

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Physical Science
Title screen for the educational kindergarten game, Shutterbugs: Wiggle and Stomp
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Shutterbugs: Wiggle and Stomp

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Kindergarten
Physical Science
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Tami's Tower: Let's Think About Engineering

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Engineering Design
Cover of Smithsonian Science for the Classroom with yellow background and 12 images in circles with tiger stripes, insect, fossil, and animal crossing sign.
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How Can We Protect Animals When Their Habitat Changes?

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Engineering Design
How Can We Change Solids and Liquids?
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How Can We Change Solids and Liquids?

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Physical Science
Cover of grade two engineering teachers guide titled How can we stop land from washing away?
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How Can We Stop Land From Washing Away?

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Tami's Tower: Pensemos en la ingeniería

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Engineering Design
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Changing Habitats

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Floating and Sinking– What Do We Know About Floating and Sinking?

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

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Floating and Sinking– How is Salt Water Different from Fresh Water?

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the blue cover of grade 4 physical science teachers guide
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How Can We Predict Patterns of Motion?

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What's the Code? activity cover
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What's the Code? Coding Robot Movements Using Sound

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How Can We Change Solids And Liquids?

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Motion and Design– "The Explore Build" Extension Activity

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Sound– Lesson 6: Vibrations We Can't See

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Floating and Sinking– Making a Sinker Float

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Explore Smithsonian: James Smithson - The Founder of the Smithsonian

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the yellow cover of grade 2 engineering teachers guide
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How Can We Stop Soil From Washing Away?

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Engineering Design
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Sound– Lesson 8: Making a Model Eardrum

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Physical Science
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Sound– Lesson 10: Changing the Pitch by Changing the Tension

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How Would You Design a Lighthouse?

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Sound– Lesson 2: How Sound Travels

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Mini Golf Motion

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Floating and Sinking– Weighing Floaters and Sinkers

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Explore Smithsonian: Dr. Avi Loeb - Jr. Professor of Science

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Sound — Lessons 1-4: Materials

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