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What Explains Similarities and Differences Between Organisms?

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Land and Water– Literacy Extension

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

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Exploring Plate Tectonics– Convection in the Mantle

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

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

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How Can We Predict Patterns of Motion?

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Motion and Design– "The Explore Build" Extension Activity

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Exploring Plate Tectonics– Recording Earthquake Waves

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Exploring Properties of Matter– Other Surface Features

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Land and Water– Literacy Integration (Sharing Predictions)

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STC Secondary: Understanding Weather and Climate

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STC Program: Food Chemistry Student Investigations Guide, 3rd Edition

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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: Exploring Plate Tectonics

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Plant Growth and Development– Planting the Seeds

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Animal Studies–Science Vocabulary

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

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Animal Studies– Observing Millipedes More Closely

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Rocks and Minerals– Creating Take Home Field Guides

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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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STCMS™: Electricity, Waves, and Information Transfer (2018)

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Aww Snap! a Snapdragon Study

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Understanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 9: Ocean Currents- Inquiry 9.2 Prep Work

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Exploring Planetary Systems–Thinking about our Solar System

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What Explains Similarities and Differences Between Organisms?

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