Quick Tips for Teachers
"Quick Tips: Resources for Teachers” is a series of short videos providing down-to-earth advice and instructional tips to teachers of STC™, our signature science curriculum. Each “Quick Tip” offers practical suggestions by experienced teachers for handling materials or managing classrooms in science investigations.
Animal Studies
Development and Reproduction
Ecosystems
Electric Circuits
Experimenting with Forces of Motion
Experimenting with Mixture, Compounds, and Elements
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VideoExperimenting with Mixtures, Compounds, and Elements– Separating Solutes (Preparation for Lesson)
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VideoExperimenting with Mixtures, Compounds, and Elements– Organization!
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VideoExperimenting with Mixtures, Compounds, and Elements– Drying Chromotography Paper
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VideoExperimenting with Mixtures, Compounts, and Elements– Marking Chromotography Paper
Exploring Planetary Systems
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VideoExploring Planetary Systems–Thinking about our Solar System
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VideoExploring Planetary Systems– The Solar System:Design
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VideoExploring Planetary Systems– Other Surface Features : Materials and Safety
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VideoExploring Planetary Systems– Other Surface Features: Don't Hurry the Slurry
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VideoExploring Planetary Systems– Solar System Explorations
Exploring Plate Tectonics
Exploring Properties of Matter
Floating and Sinking
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VideoFloating and Sinking– How is Salt Water Different from Fresh Water?
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VideoFloating and Sinking– Investigating Boat Designs
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VideoFloating and Sinking– Making a Sinker Float
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VideoFloating and Sinking– Weighing Floaters and Sinkers
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VideoFloating and Sinking– Which Things Float? Which Things Sink?
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VideoFloating and Sinking– What Do We Know About Floating and Sinking?
Investigating Biodiversity and Interdependence
Investigating Circuit Design
Land and Water
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VideoLand and Water– Literacy Extension
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VideoLand and Water– Literacy Integration (Using Alphabet Box with Science Vocabulary)
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VideoLand and Water– Literacy Integration (Sharing Predictions)
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VideoLand and Water– Lesson 2 The Water Cycle: Modeling Land and Water
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VideoLand and Water– Lesson 2/3 The Water Cycle: Modeling Land and Water
Life Cycle of Butterflies
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VideoLife Cycle of Butterflies– Literacy Integration: Nonfiction 1 - Multiple Intelligence Retell
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VideoLife Cycle of Butterflies– Literacy Integration: Nonfiction 2 - Multiple Intelligence Retell
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VideoLife Cycle of Butterflies– Literacy Integration: Fiction
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VideoLife Cycle of Butterflies– Lesson 1: Getting Ready for Caterpillars
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VideoLife Cycle of Butterflies– Lesson 2: Caring for Caterpillars
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VideoLife Cycle of Butterflies– Lesson 3: Learning More About Caterpillars
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VideoLife Cycle of Butterflies– Lesson 8: Observing the Crysalis
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VideoLife Cycles of Butterflies– Lesson 8: Observing the Crysalis - Moving the Crysalis Properly
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VideoLife Cycle of Butterflies– Lesson 14: Discovering that Butterflies are Insects
Microworlds
Motion and Design
Plant Growth and Development
Rocks and Minerals
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VideoRocks and Minerals– Organizing Minerals
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VideoRocks and Minerals– Incorporating Literacy
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VideoRocks and Minerals– Creating Take Home Field Guides
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VideoRocks and Minerals– Lesson 2: Observing Rocks- How are They the Same and Different?
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VideoRocks and Minerals– Lesson 3: Learning More about Rocks
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VideoRocks and Minerals– Lesson 8: Shining a Light on the Minerals
Soils
Sound
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VideoSound– Notebooking
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VideoSound — Lessons 1-4: Materials
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VideoSound– Lesson 1: Thinking about Sound
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VideoSound– Lesson 2: How Sound Travels
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VideoSound– Lesson 6: Vibrations We Can't See
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VideoSound– Lesson 8: Making a Model Eardrum
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VideoSound– Lesson 9: Making Sounds with Strings
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VideoSound– Lesson 10: Changing the Pitch by Changing the Tension
Student Notebooking
Teaching ELL Students
Understanding Weather and Climate
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VideoUnderstanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 1: Our Ideas About Weather and Climate– Using Weather Maps
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VideoUnderstanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 1: Our Ideas About Weather and Climate– Save Weather Maps
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VideoUnderstanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 4: Heat Transfer and the Movement of Air
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VideoUnderstanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 5: Investigating the Effects of Colliding Air Masses
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VideoUnderstanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 5: Convection Current in the Air
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VideoUnderstanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 6: Temperature, Pressure, and Cloud Formation
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VideoUnderstanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 7: Hurricanes- Destructive Storms
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VideoUnderstanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 9: Ocean Currents- Creating a "Cheat Sheet"
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VideoUnderstanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 9: Ocean Currents- Using Thermometer Strips
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VideoUnderstanding Weather and Climate–Lesson 9: Ocean Currents-Using the Demo Box
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VideoUnderstanding Weather and Climate– Lesson 9: Ocean Currents- Inquiry 9.2 Prep Work