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Fired Up About Energy

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Electric Circuits– Making a Filament

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STC Secondary: Working with Motors and Simple Machines

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Light Up the Cave

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STC Secondary: Investigating Circuit Design

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Experimenting with Forces of Motion– Materials Considerations

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How Can We Protect Animals When Their Habitat Changes?

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Channel Challenge!

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How Can We Change Solids And Liquids?

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Sound– Notebooking

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Motion and Design– "The Explore Build" Extension Activity

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Tami's Tower: Let's Think About Engineering

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How Would You Design a Lighthouse?

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Floating and Sinking– Investigating Boat Designs

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Floating and Sinking– Weighing Floaters and Sinkers

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STC-Secondary™: Researching Optical Systems

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What is Our Evidence That We Live On A Changing Earth?
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What Is Our Evidence That We Live on a Changing Earth?

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Sound– Lesson 9: Making Sounds with Strings

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STCMS™: Genes and Molecular Machines

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Chemistry
How Can We Change Solids and Liquids?
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How Can We Change Solids and Liquids?

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How Can We Keep Land From Washing Away?

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How Can We Send a Message Using Sound?

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How Can We Provide Energy to Meet Diverse Needs?

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Exploring Properties of Matter– Surface Gravity

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How Does Energy Move from One Object to Another?

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Experimenting with Mixtures, Compounds, and Elements– Drying Chromotography Paper

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How Does Motion Energy Change in a Collision?

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Changing Habitats

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How Can We Predict Patterns of Motion?
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How Can We Predict Patterns of Motion?

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Experimenting with Forces of Motion– The Force of Friction

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