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

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How Can We Identify Materials Based On Their Properties?
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How Can We Identify Materials Based on Their Properties?

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STCMS™: Energy, Forces, and Motion

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

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

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STC-Secondary™: Researching Optical Systems

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Bike Powered Generator featuring Mr. Harrison

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Earth Optimism Student Video Competition: Dajopen

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STC Secondary: Working with Motors and Simple Machines

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Experimenting with Mixtures, Compounts, and Elements– Marking Chromotography Paper

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Motion and Design– Safety with Building Pieces

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Experimenting with Forces of Motion– The Force of Friction

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

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Experimenting with Forces of Motion– Materials Considerations

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LASER Focused on English Learners: PD plus an inquiry-based science curriculum improves K-8 teachers' perceived ability to support ELs and reduces the achievement gap in math and reading
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LASER Focused on English Learners - OELA 2020 Poster

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Earth Optimism: Change is Positively Possible

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Science: A Work in Progress

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

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Moving Assessment from the Dessert Menu to the List of Entrees

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What’s the “Matter” with Cells and Atoms?

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Sound– Lesson 9: Making Sounds with Strings

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STC Secondary: Investigating Circuit Design

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English Learners in STEM: Realia Wall and Sentence Frames

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Why Right Brained is Wrong…Brained

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Floating and Sinking– Weighing Floaters and Sinkers

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JAYO - Earth Optimism Summit 2017

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Sound– Lesson 8: Making a Model Eardrum

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