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Life Cycle of Butterflies– Lesson 2: Caring for Caterpillars

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Tami's Tower: Pensemos en la ingeniería

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Explore Smithsonian: How Does a Curator of Great Cats Monitor the Health of Individual Lions in a Pride?

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STC Secondary: Investigating Digestion and Motion

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PROTECTING WHALES

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

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How Can We Protect Animals When Their Habitat Changes?

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Explore Smithsonian: What Internal Adaptations do Pandas Have to Eat Bamboo?

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What Explains Similarities and Differences Between Organisms?

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What Do Plants And Animals Need To Live?

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

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Plant Growth and Development– Planting the Seeds

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Life Cycle of Butterflies– Literacy Integration: Fiction

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

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Where Does the Water Go? Calculating a Neighborhood Water Footprint

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

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Stories of Women in STEM at the Smithsonian

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Stories of Women of Color in STEM

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STCMS™: Ecosystems and Their Interactions

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Biodiversity! How can we balance the needs of people with the needs of other living things?

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Aww Snap! a Snapdragon Study

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Explore Smithsonian: James Smithson - The Founder of the Smithsonian

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Life Cycles of Butterflies– Lesson 8: Observing the Crysalis - Moving the Crysalis Properly

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Investigating Biodiversity and Interdependence– Investigating Fungi

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What Explains Similarities and Differences Between Organisms?

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STC-Secondary™: Investigating Biodiversity and Interdependence

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Explore Smithsonian: How Can a Greenhouse Use Technology to Meet the Needs of Different Types of Plants?

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Development and Reproduction– Wisconsin Fast Plants Beginning the Cycle

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Explore Smithsonian: How do Scientists Sample Populations of Fish and Invertebrates Along the Shorelines?

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Keep it Balanced

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