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Motion and Design– Lesson 1: Designing Vehicles: Getting Started

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Transforming Science Education

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Yuck! That Tastes Terrible: Discovering a Unique Genetic Trait

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Exploring Properties of Matter– Other Surface Features

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Why Invest in STEM?

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Soils– Organizing the Distribution Center

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Diverse Stories of Resilience: Indigenous Wisdom

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Global Generations | The Global Classroom | November
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Smithsonian | Global Generations | The Global Classroom | November

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STC Secondary: Discovering Electrical Systems

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2013 Biodiversity: Smithsonian Science Education Academy for Teachers

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STC Program: Soils Unit Kit, 2nd Edition

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STC Program: Food Chemistry Unit Kit, 2nd Edition

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Weather Lab

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How Can We Protect Animals When Their Habitat Changes?

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STC Planners

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STC Literacy Series™: Changes

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Space Mission Operations

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Space Law-What Laws are There in Space?

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Understanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 1: Our Ideas About Weather and Climate– Using Weather Maps

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Astrophysicist Answers YouTube's James Webb question

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STC Assessment Guide: Electric Circuits

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

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Department of Agriculture Moon Tree Scientists

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NOAA Data in the Classroom

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Floating and Sinking– Which Things Float? Which Things Sink?

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Milky Way Explorer

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Space Weather and Earth's Aurora

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Tales of the modern astronomer

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Exploring Plate Tectonics– Convection in the Mantle

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Development and Reproduction– Wisconsin Fast Plants Beginning the Cycle

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