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How Would You Design a Lighthouse?

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STCMS™: Electricity, Waves, and Information Transfer

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STCMS™: Electricity, Waves, and Information Transfer (2018)

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STC Secondary: Experimenting with Forces and Motion

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Sound– Lesson 8: Making a Model Eardrum

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

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Motion and Design– "The Explore Build" Extension Activity

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

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Floating and Sinking– Investigating Boat Designs

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Experimenting with Mixtures, Compounds, and Elements– Separating Solutes (Preparation for Lesson)

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STC Program: Food Chemistry Student Investigations Guide, 3rd Edition

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Motion and Design– Safety with Building Pieces

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Sound– Lesson 2: How Sound Travels

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How Can I Win a Game of Flashlight Tag?

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Where Does the Water Go? Calculating a Neighborhood Water Footprint

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Stories of Women in STEM at the Smithsonian

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Exploring Properties of Matter– Other Surface Features

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Stories of Women of Color in STEM

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Mini Golf Motion

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What's the Code? Coding Robot Movements Using Sound

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Exploring Properties of Matter– Surface Gravity

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Sound– Lesson 1: Thinking about Sound

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BumperDucks

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Explore Smithsonian: James Smithson - The Founder of the Smithsonian

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

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

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Changing Habitats

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Sound– Lesson 9: Making Sounds with Strings

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STC Secondary: Exploring the Nature of Light

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