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How Can We Stop Land From Washing Away?

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Life Cycle of Butterflies– Lesson 3: Learning More About Caterpillars

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Swing Along with a Pendulum: Clocking a Second

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Land and Water– Literacy Integration (Sharing Predictions)

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Bulldozing Technique for Science Class

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Be Mosquito Smart: Know the Enemy

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Engineering Batteries

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How Would You Design a Lighthouse?

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Sound — Lessons 1-4: Materials

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STC Program: Soils Unit Kit, 3rd Edition

STC Program: Catastrophic Events Unit Kit

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Plant Growth and Development–Getting a Handle on Your Bee

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Tami's Tower: Let's Think About Engineering

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Explore Smithsonian: How Can We Know About the Reproductive Cycle of an Animal by Its Poop?

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Investigating Biodiversity and Interdependence– Investigating Fungi

Why is My Shadow Shorter Sometimes and Longer Other Times?

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

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Rocks and Minerals– Organizing Minerals

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Animal Studies– Observing Millipedes More Closely

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Exploring Planetary Systems– The Solar System:Design

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Stories of Women in STEM: Biotechnology

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Sound– Notebooking

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

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STC Assessment Guide: The Life Cycle of Butterflies

STC Program: Comparing and Measuring Unit Kit, 3rd Edition

Floating and Sinking– Weighing Floaters and Sinkers

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Life Cycle of Butterflies– Lesson 14: Discovering that Butterflies are Insects

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STCMS™: Space Systems Exploration (2018)

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