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Floating and Sinking– What Do We Know About Floating and Sinking?

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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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STC Secondary: Investigating Digestion and Motion

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Environmental Justice! How can we create environments that are healthy for everyone?

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Zero Barriers in STEM Education Summit: Keynote Address & Closing Remarks

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How Would You Design a Lighthouse?

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Explore Smithsonian: How Does a Curator of Great Cats Monitor the Health of Individual Lions in a Pride?

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Chill Out: Tiny Refrigerator Saves Hubble Camera

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Experimenting with Forces of Motion– Materials Considerations

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Universities Space Research Association (USRA) Programs

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STC Assessment Guide: Soils

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Exclusive: Get An Inside Look At The US Space Force

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How Can We Protect Animals When Their Habitat Changes?

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Electric Circuits– Making a Filament

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Yuck! That Tastes Terrible: Discovering a Unique Genetic Trait

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Literacy Tool Use as an Integral Feature of Students’ “Science ing”

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Destination Deep Space

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STC Program: Earth in Space Unit Kit

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How Can We Find the Best Place for a Plant to Grow?

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Explore Smithsonian: How do Scientists Track and Monitor Blue Crab Populations in the Chesapeake Bay?

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STC Literacy Series™: Ecosystems

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LASER i3 in North Carolina

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Why is My Shadow Shorter Sometimes and Longer Other Times?

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STC Program: Land and Water Unit Kit, 2nd Edition

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Spacecraft Subsystems

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Natural Selection: Common Misconceptions

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Glider Guide

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United States Geological Survey's Eyes on Earth Podcast

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Unified Geologic Map of the Moon

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Impacting student learning

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