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Through the eyes of a director on a TV set, students will experience how lighting plays a role in production while more deeply investigating the STEM behind the profession of director.
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Students will use engineering skills and knowledge of forces, motion, angles and simple machines to build a catapult that will hit multiple targets.
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Students will investigate friction by a) using inquiry to make observations about particular surfaces, receiving direct instruction related to the inquiry activity, and then by conducting an...
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Students will investigate structures of protists and fungi by a) creating a KWL chart of the different types of protists b) observing videos and completing an online investigation and drawing...
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This lesson focuses on insulators and conductors in order to demonstrate the transfer of heat and cold. The lesson makes connections to the profession of a Firefighter so students understand how STEM...
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A program through which decommissioned military equipment is cleaned, carefully prepared, and then placed in the ocean bed to build reefs off the coast of Beaufort, South Carolina. "Artificial" reefs...
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During Women's History Month, women and the role that women have played during the past 200 years in the United States are recognized. It's also encouraged to celebrate the women in our lives.
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Dr. Charles Townes, a scientist and a Nobel Prize Winner, and the inventor of the laser, answers a student's question about how he became a scientist. He says it began with his interest in nature and...
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In 1972, Charles Duke served as the pilot on Apollo 16, whose crew was the first to inspect, survey and sample the surface features of the highlands of the moon. He discusses the history of space...
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Dr Kary Mullis, Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry, 1993, discovered how to clone DNA. He also grew up in Columbia, S.C.! He earned a Ph.D in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. In...