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Inquiry science is the foundation

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LASER i3 in North Carolina

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Rocks and Minerals– Creating Take Home Field Guides

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That’s so Meta(cognitive)!

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How Can We Use Patterns To Predict Motion?

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How Can We Light Our Way In The Dark?
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How Can We Light Our Way In The Dark?

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Strategic Planning Institute 2013

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Swing Along with a Pendulum: Clocking a Second

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How Can We Map Land and Water on Earth?
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How Can We Map Land and Water On Earth?

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Department of Agriculture Moon Tree Scientists

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Understanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 6: Temperature, Pressure, and Cloud Formation

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James Webb Space Telescope STEM Toolkit

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Ask an Expert -- The Corona Spy Satellite

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STC Program: Electric Circuits Unit Kit, 2nd Edition

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How Can We Protect Animals When Their Habitat Changes?

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Autumn-Lynn Harrison - Earth Optimism Summit 2017

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NOAA Data in the Classroom

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STCMS™: Space Systems Exploration

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Whale Protection Corps

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Channel Challenge!

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USPTO's National Summer Teacher Institute

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STC Assessment Guide: Organisms

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Earth Observation User Case: Speaking a New Language of Landsat (Ladies of Landsat)

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How Can We Protect Animals When Their Habitat Changes?

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Animal Studies– Observing Millipedes More Closely

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Attack the Knack

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Spaceports by State

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STC Program: Changes Unit Kit, 2nd Edition

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Organisms– Literacy Integration

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STC Secondary: Discovering Electrical Systems

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