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Explore Smithsonian: James Smithson - The Founder of the Smithsonian

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How Can We Protect Animals When Their Habitat Changes?

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

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Life Cycle of Butterflies– Literacy Integration: Fiction

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

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Whale Protection Corps

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

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Animal Studies–Science Vocabulary

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STC Secondary: Exploring Respiration and Circulation

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How Can We Protect Animals When Their Habitat Changes?

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Development and Reproduction– Wisconsin Fast Plants Beginning the Cycle

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Life Cycle of Butterflies– Lesson 2: Caring for Caterpillars

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

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Life Cycle of Butterflies– Literacy Integration: Nonfiction 1 - Multiple Intelligence Retell

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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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Habitats

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Morphy

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Organisms– Literacy Integration

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Explore Smithsonian: Courtney Dressing - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Graduate Student

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How Would You Design a Lighthouse?

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Microworlds– Unit Preparation

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

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

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

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STC Secondary: Investigating Digestion and Motion

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STC Program: Human Body Systems Unit Kit

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Organisms– Notebooking

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Life Cycle of Butterflies– Lesson 1: Getting Ready for Caterpillars

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What Explains Similarities and Differences Between Organisms?

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