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How Can We Protect Animals When Their Habitat Changes?

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Tami's Tower: Pensemos en la ingeniería

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How Can We Provide Energy to Meet Diverse Needs?

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

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What's the Code? Coding Robot Movements Using Sound

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Changing Earth

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How Can We Provide Energy to People’s Homes?

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How Can We Predict Patterns of Motion?

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

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How Can We Change Solids And Liquids?

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How Does Motion Energy Change in a Collision?

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Everyday Energy

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How Does Motion Energy Change in a Collision?

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How Can We Stop Soil From Washing Away?

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Sound– Lesson 2: How Sound Travels

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Sound — Lessons 1-4: Materials

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Floating and Sinking– Weighing Floaters and Sinkers

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Floating and Sinking– Making a Sinker Float

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

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How Can We Stop Land From Washing Away?

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Sound– Lesson 8: Making a Model Eardrum

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

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Motion and Design– Safety with Building Pieces

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Floating and Sinking– Investigating Boat Designs

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Changing Habitats

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How Would You Design a Lighthouse?

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Sound– Lesson 9: Making Sounds with Strings

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How Does Energy Move from One Object to Another?

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How Can We Protect Animals When Their Habitat Changes?

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How Can I Win a Game of Flashlight Tag?

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