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Rocks and Minerals– Creating Take Home Field Guides

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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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Soils– Using Alpha Boxes

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How Can We Use the Sky to Navigate?

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Explore Smithsonian: How do Scientists Track and Monitor Blue Crab Populations in the Chesapeake Bay?

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

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

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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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PROTECTING WHALES

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Animal Studies– Materials Management

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Ecosystems– Notebooking Strategies

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Explore Smithsonian: How Are Optical Instruments Tested Before Space Flight?

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

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How Do Weather And Climate Affect Our Lives?

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Ecosystems– Material Consideration

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Land and Water– Literacy Extension

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Animal Studies– Observing Millipedes More Closely

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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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Keep it Balanced

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Microworlds– Unit Preparation

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Showbiz Safari

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What Explains Similarities and Differences Between Organisms?

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Organisms– Literacy Integration

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Stories of Women in STEM at the Smithsonian

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Life Cycle of Butterflies– Literacy Integration: Fiction

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Elementary Weather Lesson

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

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

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Explore Smithsonian: What can we Learn from Lion Poop?

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