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How Do Weather and Climate Affect Our Lives?

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STC Secondary: Working with Motors and Simple Machines

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Literacy Tool Use as an Integral Feature of Students’ “Science ing”

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STC Assessment Guide: Rocks and Minerals

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LASER 2017-2018 District Report Highlights: Aurora Public Schools

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STC Secondary: Investigating Digestion and Motion

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Explore Smithsonian: How Can Electricity Correct a Telescope in Outer Space?

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How Can We Protect Animals When Their Habitat Changes?

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Remote Sensing Classroom

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Floating and Sinking– What Do We Know About Floating and Sinking?

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

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Storm Smart

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Scaffolding Science Vocabulary Development within Inquiry-Based Instruction

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Focus on the Stuff

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Aww Snap! a Snapdragon Study

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Department of the Air Force SOAR Educational Videos

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Setting Up and Maintaining an Online Science Classroom for Success

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STC Assessment Guide: Animal Studies

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Space Weather

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Match The Pitch!

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Space Junk Around Earth

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Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program

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How Can We Send a Message Using Sound?

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Beats and Banjos

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Teacher Tips: Weather

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2013 Biodiversity: Smithsonian Science Education Academy for Teachers

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Simulating Sutures

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

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Ecosystems– Lesson 2: Setting up the Terrarium

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Water Works

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