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A close up view of the James Webb Space Telescope's gold hexoganal primary mirror.
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James Webb Space Telescope STEM Toolkit

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Earth & Space Science
How Do Living Things Stay Safe And Grow?
Curriculum

How Do Living Things Stay Safe And Grow?

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Grade 1
Life Science
Title screen for the educational earth science game, Disaster Detector.
Game

Disaster Detector

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Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Earth & Space Science
Storm Smart title screen, showing the title (Storm Smart), the play button, the credits button, and links to the Smithsonian Institution Privacy Statement and Smithsonian Kids Online Privacy Statement
App

Storm Smart

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Kindergarten
Earth & Space Science
Video

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

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Grade 1
Grade 2
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Grade 5
Kindergarten
Life Science
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Science: A Work in Progress

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Education
Man with brown hair looking into camera with a bookshelf behind him.
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Nirav Patel, Geospatial Data Scientist

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Earth & Space Science
LASER Focused: A Model for Teaching Inquiry-Based Science to English Learners - 2018-2019 District Report: Aurora Public Schools
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LASER 2018-2019 District Report: Aurora Public Schools

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Education
Curriculum

STCMS™: Weather and Climate Systems

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Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Earth & Space Science
A satellite in space with the Earth reflecting in its solar panel
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Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites - R Series

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Earth & Space Science
Video

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

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Grade 1
Grade 2
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Grade 5
Kindergarten
Life Science
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Life Cycle of Butterflies– Literacy Inegration: Nonfiction 2 - Multiple Intelligence Retell

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Grade 1
Grade 2
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Kindergarten
Life Science
Video

What’s the “Matter” with Cells and Atoms?

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Education
Video

Elementary Weather Lesson

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Grade 1
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Kindergarten
Earth & Space Science
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Understanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 1: Our Ideas About Weather and Climate– Using Weather Maps

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Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
Earth & Space Science
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Why is My Shadow Shorter Sometimes and Longer Other Times?

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Grade 1
Grade 2
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Kindergarten
Earth & Space Science
Cover of Biodiversity! guide in Spanish
Curriculum

¡Biodiversidad! ¿Cómo podemos equilibrar las necesidades de las personas con las necesidades de otros seres vivos?

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Grade 6
Grade 7
Grade 8
High School
Life Science
Sustainability
Image of a woman Erin Pettyjohn physicist
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Chill Out: Tiny Refrigerator Saves Hubble Camera

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Earth & Space Science
Sunrise over Earth from space
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An Introduction to Space Weather and the Space Weather Prediction Center

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Earth & Space Science
Webcast

How to Best Support Your Child’s Science Learning in the Time of COVID-19

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Education
Video

English Learners in STEM: Realia Wall and Sentence Frames

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Education
Video

Earth Optimism Student Video Competition: The Gray Whales of San Ignacio Lagoon

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Education
silhouette view of a man in front of blue computer network illustration
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U.S. Space Force: Origins

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Earth & Space Science
How Can Animals Use their Senses to Communicate
Curriculum

How Can Animals Use their Senses to Communicate?

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Grade 4
Life Science
Round seal with a bald eagle in the middle, e pluribus unum on paper in its beak, olive branch in one talon and arrows in the other, vertical depiction of the US flag on its body and a globe behind it. There is a ring of stars around the eagle and globe and then a circle of text that says the Office of the Director of National Intelligence United States of America.
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Intelligence Community Career Opportunities; Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math(STEM) Majors

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Earth & Space Science
Anyone with a question can have a stem2d career poster with illustrations of people in STEM careers
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Anyone with a Question Can Have a STEM2D Career

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Education
A blue rectangle logo of a plane in a white circle and white text that says National Air and Space Museum
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National Air and Space Museum Educator Resources

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Earth & Space Science
Video

Land and Water– Lesson 2/3 The Water Cycle: Modeling Land and Water

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Grade 1
Grade 2
Grade 3
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Kindergarten
Earth & Space Science
A white square with six cards spread out wtih images of a telescope, the sun, and arura as well as a student data sheet.
Resource

National Science Foundation and National Solar Observatory Google Classrooms

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Earth & Space Science
A blue globe with text that says NSF a ring of gold spikes around the globe.
Curriculum

Astronomy & Astrophysics Classroom Resources

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Earth & Space Science