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Grades 6-10. Can you name items that might be needed in an emergency? In this group of interactive whiteboard activities for STC-Secondary™, students distinguish between items that are needed versus wanted in an emergency. In addition, students examine available careers in earth science and perform a vocabulary enrichment exercise in which they categorize statements as true or false, rewriting the false ones to make them true. Access for 32 students per year for 60 months.

Grades 6-10. Can you name items that might be needed in an emergency? In this group of interactive whiteboard activities for STC-Secondary™, students distinguish between items that are needed versus wanted in an emergency. In addition, students examine available careers in earth science. Vocabulary enrichment opportunities are provided for students to match terms with definitions. Periodic concept reviews are available as well that challenge students to categorize each statement as true or false, and then, in their science notebooks, rewrite the false statements to make them true. Access for 32 students per year for 60 months.

STC-Secondary™ is a 16-unit, inquiry-centered middle school science curriculum developed by the Smithsonian Science Education Center (SSEC). Each STC-Secondary™ unit provides opportunities for students to experience scientific phenomena firsthand. A comprehensive, research-based curriculum, STC-Secondary™ is aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards*.

*Next Generation Science Standards® is a registered trademark of WestEd. Neither WestEd nor the lead states and partners that developed the Next Generation Science Standards were involved in the production of this product, and do not endorse it.