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"Inquiry-based learning is incredible!"

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Teacher Tips: Land and Water

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Plant Growth and Development– Planting the Seeds

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Preparing young minds

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

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

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Studying Soils: Claims and Evidence

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Why is My Shadow Shorter Sometimes and Longer Other Times?

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

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Sound — Lessons 1-4: Materials

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

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Teacher Tips: Weather

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We're the Smithsonian Science Education Center!

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2013 Biodiversity: Smithsonian Science Education Academy for Teachers

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

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Earth Optimism Student Video Competition: Conserving Coral Reefs

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Sound– Notebooking

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

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

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Teaching English Language Learning Students– Teaching Academic Vocabulary

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Understanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 1: Our Ideas About Weather and Climate– Using Weather Maps

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Motion and Design– "The Explore Build" Extension Activity

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Attack the Knack

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Life Cycle of Butterflies– Lesson 14: Discovering that Butterflies are Insects

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Ocean X Climate Summit

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Exploring Planetary Systems–Thinking about our Solar System

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Explore Smithsonian: Courtney Dressing - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Graduate Student

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Experimenting with Mixtures, Compounds, and Elements– Organization!

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Effective Inquiry-Based STEM Education

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

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