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How Can Animals Use their Senses to Communicate
Curriculum

How Can Animals Use their Senses to Communicate?

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Grade 4
Life Science
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STEM Education for Sustainable Development

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Understanding Weather and Climate

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Earth & Space Science
Curriculum

STC Program: Human Body Systems Unit Kit

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Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Life Science
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Life Cycle of Butterflies– Literacy Integration: Fiction

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Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Kindergarten
Life Science
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STC Assessment Guide: Experiments with Plants

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Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Curriculum

STC–Kindergarten™: Exploring My Weather Two-Use Unit Kit

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Kindergarten
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Exploring Careers @ NASA for Students

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Earth & Space Science
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Podcast: Ticket to Space

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Conceptual Change: How New Ideas Take Root

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Education
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Student Notebooking– Keeping a Teacher Book

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Education
Curriculum

STC Program: The Technology of Paper Unit Kit

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Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Resource

Smithsonian Science for Global Goals Case Statement

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Education
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Lisa Sedares, Project Leader JPSS Flight and Ground Projects - STEM Literacy Project

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Chill Out: Tiny Refrigerator Saves Hubble Camera

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Earth & Space Science
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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Education
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Investigating Circuit Design– Solar Cells

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Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Physical Science
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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Teacher Innovator Institute (TII)

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STC Assessment Guide: Microworlds

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Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
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Inquiry-Based Science Fosters 21st Century Skills

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Education
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Department of Energy STEM Opportunities and Resources

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Earth & Space Science
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Exploring Planetary Systems– The Solar System:Design

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Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Earth & Space Science
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Astrophysicist Explains first James Webb images

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Earth Optimism: Change is Positively Possible

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Education
Sustainability
Curriculum

STC Program: Earth in Space Unit Kit

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Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Earth & Space Science
How Can We Glide Like a Squirrel?
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How Can We Glide Like a Squirrel?

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Grade 4
Grade 5
Grade 6
Webcast

Implicit Bias: How it impacts DEAI efforts in K-12 STEM Education

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Resource

STC Literacy Series™: Solids and Liquids

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Grade 1
Grade 2
Kindergarten
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Animal Studies– Observing Millipedes More Closely

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Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Kindergarten
Life Science
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Storm Smart

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Kindergarten
Earth & Space Science