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Stories of Women in STEM at the Smithsonian

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STC Program: Light Unit Kit

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How Can We Protect and Clean Earth's Water?

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Motion and Design– Safety with Building Pieces

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STCMS™: Electricity, Waves, and Information Transfer

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Sound– Lesson 8: Making a Model Eardrum

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Exploring Properties of Matter– Surface Gravity

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Un Problema De Peso

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Sound– Lesson 9: Making Sounds with Strings

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STC-Secondary™: Researching Optical Systems

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Stories of Women of Color in STEM

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Experimenting with Forces of Motion– The Force of Friction

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

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Where Does the Water Go? Calculating a Neighborhood Water Footprint

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Shutterbugs: Wiggle and Stomp

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Sound– Lesson 2: How Sound Travels

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Experimenting with Mixtures, Compounds, and Elements– Organization!

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Tami's Tower: Let's Think About Engineering

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

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How Can We Provide Freshwater to Those in Need?

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Sound– Notebooking

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STC Program: Energy, Machines, and Motion Unit Kit

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How Can We Change An Object's Motion?

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

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STCMS™: Energy, Forces, and Motion

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

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Experimenting with Forces of Motion– The Mousetrap Car

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Floating and Sinking– Weighing Floaters and Sinkers

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