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STC Assessment Guide: Magnets and Motors

Microworlds– Unit Preparation

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How Do Weather And Climate Affect Our Lives?

Earth & Space Science

How Can We Find the Best Place for a Plant to Grow? Teacher Guide

How Can We Find the Best Place for a Plant to Grow?

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

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

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Floating and Sinking– What Do We Know About Floating and Sinking?

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

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How Can We Protect Animals When Their Habitat Changes?

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STC Program: Animal Studies Unit Kit, 3rd Edition

Explore Smithsonian: James Smithson - The Founder of the Smithsonian

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Whale Protection Corps

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Animal Studies– Materials Management

STC Assessment Guide: Rocks and Minerals

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How Can We Use Patterns To Predict Motion?

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Elementary Weather Lesson

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Plant Growth and Development– Planting the Seeds

STC Program: Sound Unit Kit, 2nd Edition

STC Assessment Guide: Experiments with Plants

STC Literacy Series™: Sound

Soils– Materials Distribution: Roles and Responsibilities

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STC Program: Food Chemistry Unit Kit, 2nd Edition

Electric Circuits– Making a Filament

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Animal Studies– Materials and Organizations

STC Program: Changes Unit Kit, 3rd Edition

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

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STC Program: Balancing and Weighing Unit Kit, 3rd Edition

Rocks and Minerals– Creating Take Home Field Guides

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STC Literacy Series™: Microworlds

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

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