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How Can We Provide Energy to People’s Homes?

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How Would You Design a Lighthouse?

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Sound– Lesson 9: Making Sounds with Strings

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Investigating Circuit Design– Generating Electric Energy

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STCMS™: Matter and Its Interactions

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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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We're the Smithsonian Science Education Center!

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How Can We Keep Land From Washing Away?

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Attack the Knack

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Smithsonian Science for Global Goals Media Kit

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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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Physical Science
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Setting Up and Maintaining an Online Science Classroom for Success

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

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

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Enric Sala - Earth Optimism Summit 2017

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Filter Fun!

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

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How Can We Stop Soil From Washing Away?

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Shutterbugs: Wiggle and Stomp

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Introducing: Good Thinking!

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Student Notebooking– Keeping a Teacher Book

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LASER i3 in NC

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How Can We Change Solids And Liquids?

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Laser i3 in Action

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Experimenting with Forces of Motion– Materials Considerations

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Smithsonian Science for Global Goals Case Statement

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LASER Focused: A Model for Teaching Inquiry-Based Science to English Learners - 2017-2018 District Report: Aurora Public Schools
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LASER 2017-2018 District Report Highlights: Aurora Public Schools

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

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How Can We Send a Message Using Sound?

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English Learners in STEM: Language Log

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