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Image the Fostering Change Playbook
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Fostering Change: Ideas and Best Practices for Diversity in STEM Teaching in K-12 Classrooms

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Education
cover of Smihsonian Science for Global Goals Energy guide with solar panels, plants, wind turbines, and power lines.
Curriculum

Energy! How can we ensure sustainable energy for all?

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Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
High School
Sustainability
Curriculum

STC Secondary: Experimenting with Forces and Motion

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Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Physical Science
Which Force Is With You? A Motion and Design Lesson Cover Image
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Which Force Is With You? A Motion and Design Lesson

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Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Image of a yellow 3D printed anemometer with a base, a pencil as a vertical component and four half spheres on a horizonal top piece
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Anemometer Energy!

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Engineering Design
An illustration of a coffee mug with a spoon in it and text that says teen astronomy cafe
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Teen Astronomy Cafe

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Engineering Circuits activity cover
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Engineering Circuits

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Grade 8
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Ecosystems– Material Consideration

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Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Kindergarten
Earth & Space Science
Grade 2 life science teacher's guide cover
Curriculum

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

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Grade 2
Life Science
Sustainability
Image of Earth from space with text that says lava flows
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EROS Image of the Week

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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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FAA : Commercial Space 101

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Organisms– Notebooking

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Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Kindergarten
Life Science
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Understanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 7: Hurricanes- Destructive Storms

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Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Earth & Space Science
How Can Animals Use their Senses to Communicate
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How Can Animals Use their Senses to Communicate?

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Grade 4
Life Science
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Soils– Reading Resource Extensions

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Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Kindergarten
Earth & Space Science
The cover of A Weighty Problem grade 5 teacher guide with a collage of pictures depicting hiking gear, girls in science class, a boy hiking and a scale with a water and powder mixture.
Curriculum

A WEIGHTY PROBLEM

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Grade 5
Physical Science
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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Teacher Professional Development Live

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Focus on the Stuff

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Education
Curriculum

STC Program: Rocks and Minerals, 3rd Edition

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Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
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Earth Optimism Student Video Competition: Conserving Coral Reefs

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Education
Sustainability
Curriculum

STC-Secondary™: Investigating Biodiversity and Interdependence

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Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Life Science
Glider Guide Title Screen
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Glider Guide

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Grade 2
Earth & Space Science
An orangutan hangs from a tree in a moderately dense forest
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Earth Optimism Indonesia TV | Earth Optimism Education Series

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Life Science
Sustainability
Large image of the Moon with a person in a chair looking at the image and a computer screen
Curriculum

National Geospatial -Intelligence Agency Mapping Moments: Lunar Module Simulator

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Earth & Space Science
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We're the Smithsonian Science Education Center!

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Education
NSF logo of blue globe surrounded by yellow spikes and text that says NSF
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Build and use a simple spectroscope

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Earth & Space Science
Webcast

Promising Practices for Online Learning

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Curriculum

STC Program: Ecosystems Unit Kit, 3rd Edition

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Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Man in a suit stands in front of a clean room with two workers.
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Plug-N-Play Satellites

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Earth & Space Science
Video

Life Cycle of Butterflies– Literacy Integration: Fiction

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Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Kindergarten
Life Science