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Ouch! I Need a Bandage: Designing, Constructing, and Packaging a Bandage

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Microworlds– Unit Preparation

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

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Explore Smithsonian: How Can a Greenhouse Use Technology to Meet the Needs of Different Types of Plants?

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Organisms– Notebooking

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How Can We Protect Animals When Their Habitat Changes?

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Sound– Lesson 1: Thinking about Sound

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Explore Smithsonian: How do Scientists use Electricity to Study Fish Populations?

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Mini Golf Motion

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

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Sound — Lessons 1-4: Materials

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Animal Studies– Materials and Organizations

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Floating and Sinking– Weighing Floaters and Sinkers

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Habitats

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Life Cycle of Butterflies– Literacy Integration: Nonfiction 2 - Multiple Intelligence Retell

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How Would You Design a Lighthouse?

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Sound– Notebooking

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Sound– Lesson 9: Making Sounds with Strings

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Life Cycle of Butterflies– Literacy Inegration: Nonfiction 2 - Multiple Intelligence Retell

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How Can I Win a Game of Flashlight Tag?

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Explore Smithsonian: How do Orchids Attract Pollinators?

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Explore Smithsonian: What can we Learn from Lion Poop?

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Life Cycle of Butterflies– Literacy Integration: Fiction

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Animal Studies– Observing Millipedes More Closely

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Explore Smithsonian: How Does a Curator of Great Cats Monitor the Health of Individual Lions in a Pride?

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Animal Studies–Science Vocabulary

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Sound– Lesson 8: Making a Model Eardrum

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Electric Circuits– Making a Filament

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

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Floating and Sinking– Investigating Boat Designs

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