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How Can We Use Patterns To Predict Motion?

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Floating and Sinking– Making a Sinker Float

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Experimenting with Mixtures, Compounds, and Elements– Separating Solutes (Preparation for Lesson)

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STCMS™: Electricity, Waves, and Information Transfer

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STC Program: Light Unit Kit

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Experimenting with Forces of Motion– The Force of Friction

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Floating and Sinking– How is Salt Water Different from Fresh Water?

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

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STC Secondary: Discovering Electrical Systems

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Sound– Lesson 2: How Sound Travels

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STCMS™: Energy, Forces, and Motion

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

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

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Exploring Properties of Matter– Surface Gravity

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Electric Circuits– Making a Filament

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Experimenting with Mixtures, Compounds, and Elements– Organization!

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Sound– Lesson 1: Thinking about Sound

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

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Sound– Lesson 10: Changing the Pitch by Changing the Tension

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STC Secondary: Investigating Circuit Design

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Sound — Lessons 1-4: Materials

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Motion and Design– Safety with Building Pieces

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Experimenting with Mixtures, Compounts, and Elements– Marking Chromotography Paper

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Exploring Properties of Matter– Other Surface Features

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Explore Smithsonian: Courtney Dressing - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Graduate Student

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Motion and Design– "The Explore Build" Extension Activity

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Experimenting with Mixtures, Compounds, and Elements– Drying Chromotography Paper

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STC Secondary: Exploring the Nature of Light

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Explore the World of Small Through Virtual Reality

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Floating and Sinking– Weighing Floaters and Sinkers

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