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Kenny Harris, Senior Project Engineer - STEM Literacy Project

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Storm Smart title screen, showing the title (Storm Smart), the play button, the credits button, and links to the Smithsonian Institution Privacy Statement and Smithsonian Kids Online Privacy Statement
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Storm Smart

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Kindergarten
Earth & Space Science
How Can We Light Our Way in the Dark? Teacher Guide cover
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How Can We Light Our Way in the Dark?

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Grade 1
Physical Science
Man in camouflage uniform that says US Space force
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Join the U.S. Space Force

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Earth & Space Science
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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Grade 5
Physical Science
Curriculum

STC Program: Human Body Systems Unit Kit

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Grade 6
Grade 7
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Life Science
The Environmental Justice Guide cover with a fist of blue sky and green grass in the foreground of a gray polluted scene.
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Environmental Justice! How can we create environments that are healthy for everyone?

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Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
High School
Sustainability
the blue cover of grade 4 physical science teachers guide
Curriculum

How Can We Predict Patterns of Motion?

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Grade 3
Physical Science
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Cells In Space: Helping Astronauts and Injured Soldiers

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Earth & Space Science
Illustration of a rocket launch with text saying Go For Launch FAA.gov/space
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Licenses & Permits: Commercial Space

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An artist rendering of a rocket leaving Earth
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Launch, Propulsion, and Re-entry

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Life Cycle of Butterflies– Literacy Integration: Fiction

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Grade 1
Grade 2
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Grade 5
Kindergarten
Life Science
Glider Guide Title Screen
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Glider Guide

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Grade 2
Earth & Space Science
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Impacting student learning

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Illustration of the Earth and a satellite with an arrow showing gravity pulling toward the Earth.
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Gravity

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Earth & Space Science
Astronaut in the Space Station looking out a window down onto Earth.
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Space Junk Around Earth

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Earth & Space Science
A collage of images from left to right: a world map, a coral reef, a metal sculpture of a teacher talking to a student, a dock on a lake, and a world map
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NOAA Data in the Classroom

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Earth & Space Science
Sustainability
Webcast

How to Best Support Your Child’s Science Learning in the Time of COVID-19

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Education
Cover of Educating for Sustainable development perspectives of US and Global Educators
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Educating for Sustainable Development: Perspectives of U.S. and Global Educators Report

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Sustainability
Curriculum

STC Program: Experiments with Plants Unit Kit

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Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Video

Falling 101

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Physical Science
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Argos Education

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Earth & Space Science
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Soils– Reading Resource Extensions

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Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Kindergarten
Earth & Space Science
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That’s so Meta(cognitive)!

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Education
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Life Cycle of Butterflies– Lesson 8: Observing the Crysalis

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Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Kindergarten
Life Science
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STC Assessment Guide: Floating and Sinking

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Grade 3
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Grade 5
An Illustration of two people in spacesuits with Earth in the background and white text that says Artemis Camp.
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Artemis Camp Experience

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Earth & Space Science
Composite image of stars from the Chandra X-ray Telescope
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Explore Smithsonian: How Do Astronomers See the Invisible Parts of the Universe?

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Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Earth & Space Science
Curriculum

STCMS™: Electricity, Waves, and Information Transfer

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Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Physical Science
Telescope observatory at night.
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U.S. Space Force: Make History :30 Commercial

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