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How Can We Change An Object's Motion?
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How Can We Change An Object's Motion?

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Sound– Lesson 10: Changing the Pitch by Changing the Tension

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Light Up the Cave

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Sound– Notebooking

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LASER i3 PLCs and Online Resources

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Teaching ELL Students– Teaching Academic Vocabulary

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LASER i3 in New Mexico

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How Can We Change Solids And Liquids?

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

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Student Notebooking– Tools: Using a Lab Report Writing Wheel

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LASER Focused on English Learners: PD plus an inquiry-based science curriculum improves K-8 teachers' perceived ability to support ELs and reduces the achievement gap in math and reading
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LASER Focused on English Learners - OELA 2020 Poster

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

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A WEIGHTY PROBLEM

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LASER Focused: A Model for Teaching Inquiry-Based Science to English Learners - 2018-2019 District Report: Denver Public Schools
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LASER 2018-2019 District Report: Denver Public Schools

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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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STC Secondary: Experimenting with Forces and Motion

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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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Explore Smithsonian: James Smithson - The Founder of the Smithsonian

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Conceptual Change: How New Ideas Take Root

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Experimenting with Forces of Motion– The Mousetrap Car

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How Can We Use Patterns To Predict Motion?

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Sound– Lesson 1: Thinking about Sound

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

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How Does Energy Move from One Object to Another?

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Autumn-Lynn Harrison - Earth Optimism Summit 2017

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LASER i3 in NC

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LASER i3 in North Carolina

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Motion and Design– Safety with Building Pieces

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We're the Smithsonian Science Education Center!

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