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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
Cover of the grade 1 earth and space science teacher's guide
Curriculum

How Can We Predict When The Sky Will Be Dark?

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Grade 1
Earth & Space Science
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Resource

Sun STEM Toolkit

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Earth & Space Science
Webcast

Implicit Bias: How it impacts DEAI efforts in K-12 STEM Education

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Video

Sound– Lesson 1: Thinking about Sound

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Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Kindergarten
Physical Science
Curriculum

STC Program: Microworlds Student Investigations Guide, 3rd Edition

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Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Life Science
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Curriculum

Biodiversity! How can we balance the needs of people with the needs of other living things?

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Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
High School
Life Science
Sustainability
Video

Life Cycle of Butterflies– Lesson 1: Getting Ready for Caterpillars

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Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Kindergarten
Life Science
A green rectangle with white text saying what if we speak biodiversity - capstone project 2023
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Cité scolaire D'Arsonval Group 2 Capstone Video

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Impact of Professional Development for Science Teachers

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Education
Blue satellite pointing down on Earth from orbit
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Argos Education

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Earth & Space Science
An illustrated image of a living room with a couch and a tv and white wave lines going across the image in all directions
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NASA - Tour of the Electromagnetic Spectrum

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Earth & Space Science
An artistic rendering of a spacecraft with grey body and solar panels.
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Spacecraft Subsystems

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Earth & Space Science
Curriculum

STC Secondary: Working with Motors and Simple Machines

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Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Physical Science
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

LASER i3 in NC

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Education
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Matthew Tan, Aerospace Engineering Student at Stanford

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Earth & Space Science
microscopic image of a cell
Curriculum

STCMS™: Genes and Molecular Machines

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Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Chemistry
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STC Assessment Guide: Magnets and Motors

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Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
A desert habitat in Habitats
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Habitats

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Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Grade 6
Life Science
Webcast

IDEAS in STEM: Building Relationships

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Curriculum

STC–Kindergarten™: Exploring My Weather Two-Use Unit Kit

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Kindergarten
Curriculum

STC Program: Microworlds Unit Kit, 2nd Edition

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Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
A yellow rectangle with a man in the center looking at an inset image of an image from the James Webb space telescope of the southern ring nebula that is blue oval with red radiating from it.
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Astrophysicist Explains first James Webb images

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Swing Along with a Pendulum: Clocking a Second Cover Image
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Swing Along with a Pendulum: Clocking a Second

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Grade 4
Grade 5
Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Video

We're the Smithsonian Science Education Center!

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Education
Video

Motion and Design– "The Explore Build" Extension Activity

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Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
Grade 4
Grade 5
Kindergarten
Physical Science
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STC Literacy Series™: Weather

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Grade 1
Grade 2
Kindergarten
Video

Smithsonian Science for Global Goals

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Sustainability
Video

Smithsonian literacy materials

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