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

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Ecosystems– Lesson 2: Setting up the Terrarium

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Exploring Plate Tectonics– Recording Earthquake Waves

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The U.S. Army in Space today and in the future

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Earth Observation User Case: Using Landsat to Connect Space to Village

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Smithsonian Institution | Dr. Carol O'Donnell | Director, Smithsonian Science Education Center
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Global Inspiration | Dr. Carol O'Donnell | Smithsonian | January

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STC Program: The Life Cycle of Butterflies Unit Kit, 2nd Edition

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Remote Sensing Classroom

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How Can We Protect Animals When Their Habitat Changes?

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Soils– Using Alpha Boxes

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

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STC Assessment Guide: Microworlds

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Milky Way Explorer

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Why Right Brained is Wrong…Brained

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Science: A Work in Progress

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STC Assessment Guide: Electric Circuits

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How Can We Predict Change in Ecosystems?

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

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Trait Tracker

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Teaching with Telescopes

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Sustainable Communities! How will we help our community thrive?

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Smithsonian literacy materials

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LASER Focused: A Model for Teaching Inquiry-Based Science to English Learners - 2018-2019 District Report: Aurora Public Schools
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LASER 2018-2019 District Report: Aurora Public Schools

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NASA eClips: Careers at NASA - More than just astronauts

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STC Literacy Series™: Chemical Tests

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STCMS™: Electricity, Waves, and Information Transfer (2018)

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Ecosystems– Notebooking Strategies

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

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STCMS™: Electricity, Waves, and Information Transfer

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Falling 101

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