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Mini Golf Motion

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Exploring Planetary Systems– Other Surface Features: Don't Hurry the Slurry

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How Do Living Things Stay Safe and Grow?
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How Do Living Things Stay Safe and Grow?

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STC Assessment Guide: Weather

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Everyday Energy

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Will Santos, Senior Structural Dynamics Engineer - STEM Literacy Project

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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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Ocean X Climate Summit

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Motion and Design– Safety with Building Pieces

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STC Assessment Guide: Balancing and Weighing

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Women in Aviation and Space History

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STC Program: Ecosystems Unit Kit, 2nd Edition

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How Does Motion Energy Change in a Collision?

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How Do Weather And Climate Affect Our Lives?

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Understanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 4: Heat Transfer and the Movement of Air

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BumperDucks

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Understanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 7: Hurricanes- Destructive Storms

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Delilah Nunez, Systems Director, ESS Ground and Integration - STEM Literacy Project

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Teaching ELL Students– Teaching Academic Vocabulary

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Teen Astronomy Cafe

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Styling Sun Safety

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Global Inspiration | Dr. Carol O'Donnell | Smithsonian | January

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Explore Smithsonian: What Internal Adaptations do Pandas Have to Eat Bamboo?

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Animal Studies–Science Vocabulary

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NOAA Teacher at Sea Program

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Simulating Sutures

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Space Force STEM Activities

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Climate Resilience!

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STC Assessment Guide: Experiments with Plants

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We're the Smithsonian Science Education Center!

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