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What Do Plants And Animals Need To Live?

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How Can We Send a Message Using Sound?

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STC Assessment Guide: Floating and Sinking

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

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Land and Water– Lesson 2 The Water Cycle: Modeling Land and Water

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STC Program: Properties of Matter Unit Kit

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Biotechnology! How can we ethically create a sustainable future using biotechnology?

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High School
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How Can We Change Solids And Liquids?

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Aww Snap! a Snapdragon Study

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Investigating Circuit Design– Generating Electric Energy

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NOAA Planet Stewards

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Smithsonian literacy materials

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Missile Warning and Space Surveillance

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

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Life Cycle of Butterflies– Lesson 2: Caring for Caterpillars

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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Teacher Professional Development Live

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Understanding Weather and Climate

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How Can We Change An Object's Motion?

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Physical Science
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Sound– Lesson 10: Changing the Pitch by Changing the Tension

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Margarita Mora - Earth Optimism Summit 2017

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Scaffolding Science Vocabulary Development within Inquiry-Based Instruction

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Engineering Circuits

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Grade 8
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"The staff love the PD"

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How Can We Provide Energy to People’s Homes?

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Grade 4
Engineering Design
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STC–Kindergarten™: Exploring Forces and Motion Two-Use Unit Kit

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Kindergarten
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Mosquito! How Can We Ensure Health For All From Mosquito-borne Diseases?

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Moving Assessment from the Dessert Menu to the List of Entrees

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

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Sustainability
LASER Focused: A Model for Teaching Inquiry-Based Science to English Learners - 2017-2018 District Report: Aurora Public Schools
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LASER 2017-2018 District Report Highlights: Aurora Public Schools

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Student Notebooking– Table of Contents

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