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Why is My Shadow Shorter Sometimes and Longer Other Times?

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Understanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 4: Heat Transfer and the Movement of Air

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STC Program: Earth in Space Unit Kit

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Understanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 5: Convection Current in the Air

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Johannes Kepler
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Kepler's Laws

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Earth Optimism Student Video Competition: Conserving Coral Reefs

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

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

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NOAA Satellites Youtube

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i3 PLC Leaders Becoming an Increasingly Effective Collaborative Team

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Earth from space
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Space Law-What Laws are There in Space?

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Exploring Planetary Systems– Other Surface Features: Don't Hurry the Slurry

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Exploring Plate Tectonics– Convection in the Mantle

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Teaching with Telescopes

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NOAA Educator Opportunities

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Disaster Detector

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Your Place In Space Career Profiles

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How Can We Predict When The Sky Will Be Dark?

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A full moon above a treeline.
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Introduction to Moon Trees

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Earth Optimism: Change is Positively Possible

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Plug-N-Play Satellites

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

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Storm Smart

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Illustration of Earth with three concentric circles around it.
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Orbit Types

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Explore Smithsonian: How Do Astronomers See the Invisible Parts of the Universe?

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

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Setting Up and Maintaining an Online Science Classroom for Success

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Build a CubeSat!

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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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Rocks and Minerals– Organizing Minerals

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