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Climate Resilience!

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

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Understanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 5: Investigating the Effects of Colliding Air Masses

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Earth & Space Science
Composite image of stars from the Chandra X-ray Telescope
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Explore Smithsonian: How Do Astronomers See the Invisible Parts of the Universe?

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STC-Secondary™: Investigating Biodiversity and Interdependence

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Life Science
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STC Secondary: Exploring the Nature of Light

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Physical Science
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Weather Lab

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Earth & Space Science
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Spaceports by State

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How Can We Glide Like a Squirrel?
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How Can We Glide Like a Squirrel?

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Understanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 9: Ocean Currents- Inquiry 9.2 Prep Work

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Earth & Space Science
A group of 6 middle school kids in front of a projector screen with a green boarder with illustrated globes
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Collège les Colliberts Group 2 Capstone Video

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Electric Circuits– Making a Filament

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Kindergarten
Physical Science
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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Ouch! I Need a Bandage: Designing, Constructing, and Packaging a Bandage

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Engineering Design
Night sky with silhouettes of trees with a bright green streak in the sky
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Space Weather and Earth's Aurora

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Introducing: Good Thinking!

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Smithsonian Science for Global Goals Case Statement

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Curriculum

STC Program: Properties of Matter Unit Kit

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Curriculum

STC Program: Balancing and Weighing Unit Kit, 3rd Edition

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Grade 1
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Kindergarten
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Beekeeper Presentation featuring Ren Ramsey

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Life 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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The side of a building with lettering that says Chapman Training Complex and a news title across the bottom that says this is not space camp.
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This is not space camp': Watch how recruits train for US Space Force

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How Can We Change an Object’s Motion?

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A close up view of the James Webb Space Telescope's gold hexoganal primary mirror.
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James Webb Space Telescope STEM Toolkit

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Investigating Circuit Design– Generating Electric Energy

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Physical Science
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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Grade 2
Life Science
Sustainability
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Explore Smithsonian: Dr. Avi Loeb - Jr. Professor of Science

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Education
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Motion and Design– "The Explore Build" Extension Activity

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Kindergarten
Physical Science
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Orbit Types

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STC Assessment Guide: Electric Circuits

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