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COVID-19! How Can I Protect Myself and Others? NGSS-Aligned Teacher Companion Guide

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Build Your Own Touch Screen Stylus

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

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Explore Smithsonian: How Are Optical Instruments Tested Before Space Flight?

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Light Up the Cave

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Experimenting with Forces of Motion– The Mousetrap Car

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Where Does the Water Go? Calculating a Neighborhood Water Footprint

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Vaccines! How can we use science to help our community make decisions about vaccines?

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Explore Smithsonian: What External Adaptations do Pandas Have for Their Unique Diet?

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Energy guide

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Stories of Women in STEM at the Smithsonian

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Elementary Weather Lesson

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Explore Smithsonian: How do Scientists use Electricity to Study Fish Populations?

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Weather Lab

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What's the Code? Coding Robot Movements Using Sound

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

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Sustainable Communities! How will we help our community thrive? المجتمعات المستدامة! كيف يمكننا مساعدة مجتمعنا على الازدهار؟

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Disaster Detector

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How Would You Design a Lighthouse?

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Stories of Women in STEM: Biotechnology

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Life Cycle of Butterflies– Literacy Integration: Nonfiction 2 - Multiple Intelligence Retell

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Why is My Shadow Shorter Sometimes and Longer Other Times?

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