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How Can I Win a Game of Flashlight Tag?

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

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

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How Can We Use Patterns To Predict Motion?

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What's the Code? Coding Robot Movements Using Sound

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STCMS™: Electricity, Waves, and Information Transfer

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Motion and Design– Safety with Building Pieces

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Sound– Lesson 9: Making Sounds with Strings

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

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How Can We Protect Animals When Their Habitat Changes?

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Sound — Lessons 1-4: Materials

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Mini Golf Motion

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

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Floating and Sinking– Weighing Floaters and Sinkers

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Sound– Lesson 8: Making a Model Eardrum

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Changing Habitats

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Exploring Properties of Matter– Other Surface Features

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Electric Circuits– Making a Filament

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Investigating Circuit Design– Solar Cells

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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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Exploring Properties of Matter– Surface Gravity

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How Can We Protect Animals When Their Habitat Changes?

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Where Does the Water Go? Calculating a Neighborhood Water Footprint

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Motion and Design– "The Explore Build" Extension Activity

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Sound– Lesson 1: Thinking about Sound

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Sound– Notebooking

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STC Program: Energy, Machines, and Motion Unit Kit

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Experimenting with Mixtures, Compounds, and Elements– Organization!

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Investigating Circuit Design– Generating Electric Energy

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