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Student Notebooking– Add an Envelope

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Sound– Lesson 1: Thinking about Sound

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

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How Would You Design a Lighthouse?

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Fostering Change: Ideas and Best Practices for Diversity in STEM Teaching in K-12 Classrooms

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Stories of Women in STEM at the Smithsonian

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Explore Smithsonian: How Can Electricity Correct a Telescope in Outer Space?

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How Can We Protect Animals When Their Habitat Changes?

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Floating and Sinking– Investigating Boat Designs

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How Can I Win a Game of Flashlight Tag?

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Motion and Design– Using Cooperation Cups

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STCMS™: Electricity, Waves, and Information Transfer

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Inquiry-Based Science Fosters 21st Century Skills

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Literacy Tool Use as an Integral Feature of Students’ “Science ing”

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Opening Our Minds & Success in Conservation - Plenary 1 - Earth Optimism Summit 2017

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Explore Smithsonian: Dr. Avi Loeb - Jr. Professor of Science

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STC Secondary: Experimenting with Forces and Motion

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STC-Secondary™: Researching Optical Systems

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STC Secondary: Working with Motors and Simple Machines

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How Does Energy Move from One Object to Another?

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Motion and Design– Safety with Building Pieces

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Experimenting with Mixtures, Compounts, and Elements– Marking Chromotography Paper

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Tami's Tower: Pensemos en la ingeniería

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Everyday Energy

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How Can We Identify Materials Based On Their Properties?
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How Can We Identify Materials Based on Their Properties?

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How Can We Light Our Way In The Dark?
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How Can We Light Our Way In The Dark?

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Why Invest in STEM?

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Explore the World of Small Through Virtual Reality

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Conceptual Change: How New Ideas Take Root

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Sound– Notebooking

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