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Difficult Conversations in Extraordinary Times

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Rocks and Minerals– Creating Take Home Field Guides

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How Can We Use Patterns To Predict Motion?

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How Can We Light Our Way In The Dark?
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How Can We Light Our Way In The Dark?

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How Can We Protect Animals When Their Habitat Changes?

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Swing Along with a Pendulum: Clocking a Second

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

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Understanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 7: Hurricanes- Destructive Storms

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How Do Weather And Climate Affect Our Lives?

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Motion and Design– Safety with Building Pieces

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Department of the Air Force SOAR Educational Videos

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Match The Pitch!

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Land and Water– Lesson 2 The Water Cycle: Modeling Land and Water

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We're the Smithsonian Science Education Center!

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STC Literacy Series™: Microworlds

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Students can’t wait for science!

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How Do Living Things Stay Safe And Grow?
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How Do Living Things Stay Safe And Grow?

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Collège les Colliberts Group 1 Capstone Video

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NOAA Educator Opportunities

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Explore Smithsonian: How Do Astronomers See the Invisible Parts of the Universe?

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Space Career Resource Guide

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What Explains Similarities and Differences Between Organisms?

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How Can We Be Ready for Weather?

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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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Don't Call Me Extinct Podcasting Module

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That’s so Meta(cognitive)!

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STC Assessment Guide: Food Chemistry

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Promising Practices for Online Learning

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Autumn-Lynn Harrison - Earth Optimism Summit 2017

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STC Program: Electric Circuits Unit Kit, 3rd Edition

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