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Explore Smithsonian: How Do Astronomers See the Invisible Parts of the Universe?

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Floating and Sinking– Investigating Boat Designs

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Rocks and Minerals– Incorporating Literacy

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Understanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 9: Ocean Currents- Using Thermometer Strips

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Exploring Plate Tectonics– Convection in the Mantle

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Sound– Lesson 8: Making a Model Eardrum

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Floating and Sinking– Which Things Float? Which Things Sink?

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Sound– Lesson 9: Making Sounds with Strings

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Sound– Lesson 6: Vibrations We Can't See

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Understanding Weather and Climate–Lesson 9: Ocean Currents-Using the Demo Box

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

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Interview with a Smithsonian Scientist: Dr. Cari

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Understanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 9: Ocean Currents- Inquiry 9.2 Prep Work

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Sound– Lesson 1: Thinking about Sound

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Understanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 1: Our Ideas About Weather and Climate– Save Weather Maps

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Studying Soils: Claims and Evidence

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Understanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 1: Our Ideas About Weather and Climate– Using Weather Maps

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Motion and Design– "The Explore Build" Extension Activity

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Soils– Materials Distribution: Roles and Responsibilities

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Rocks and Minerals– Lesson 2: Observing Rocks- How are They the Same and Different?

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Understanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 7: Hurricanes- Destructive Storms

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Rainy Day Fabrics

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Ecosystems– Notebooking Strategies

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Experimenting with Forces of Motion– The Force of Friction

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Why is My Shadow Shorter Sometimes and Longer Other Times?

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Falling 101

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Experimenting with Forces of Motion– Materials Considerations

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Sound– Lesson 2: How Sound Travels

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Land and Water– Lesson 2 The Water Cycle: Modeling Land and Water

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Exploring Properties of Matter– Other Surface Features

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