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The Cigar Box Project at the Calgary Science School was a year-long, historical exploration embedded in inquiry-based 1:1 classroom. Students lived the disciplines of historical thinking and graphic design as they used 21st Century tools to reinterpret events from Canadian History. Through an iterative process powered by peer evaluation and feedback, students created five historical Cigar Box panels and three historical iMovies, each one supported by rigorous research and the help of a number of experts along the way.

Our Second Grade class were introduced to Life Cycles by raising Painted Lady butterflies. This project includes Digital pictures, Kid Pix drawings, fictional and nonfictional stories using facts from reading and raising butterflies, and two podcasts.

This unique project shows how students can bring their exploration of the Elizabethan era to life using Apple Pages.

Apple Distinguished Educators author a variety of exceptional podcasts. Whether they are a teacher in the classroom working with a group of young podcasters, an educator helping to advance the knowledge-base of others, or the diligent staff member behind the scenes of a school-wide broadcast. Here is a sampling of some of the best podcasts in education!

Our project goal is to introduce students to the State or National Parks in their local area by investigating their park, gathering information, and sharing the information with others. This project is designed to introduce students to the role that they can play in the stewardship of their community’s state parks. Through stewardship, students will gain an understanding that although we don’t own the resources, we are responsible for their condition. Through the completion of this project, students will discover that every decision made is consequential and that in order to be an effective advocate they will need to organize priorities with regards to their informed understanding governmental processes, the rights and obligations of citizenship, as well as understanding the local and global implications of civic decisions.

This project will create and post standards aligned content for English, social studies, sociology/psychology, and science as related to the literature of John Steinbeck.

Listen as Gabriella Meyers, an Apple Distinguished Educator from Michigan, discusses the use of Garageband in teaching students about propaganda.

In this unit, students explore aquatic environments and how human actions influence these environments and the plants and animals natives to these areas. They are invited to share their knowledge and ideas with others so they can work together to preserve the earth's aquatic environments.

Photographic resources for the Creation Stories Exhibit

Students will investigate human interaction with wild animals and the role humans play in the endangerment and extinction of species and their habitats. Based on their research, small groups of students will take a position on one or more issues of human interaction with wild animals and develop, present, and implement a plan to advocate for their position.

An experienced educational technologist shares the discovery of a fifth year middle school teacher who is using blogging to inspire her students. A true profile in innovation and success with practical suggestions to start your own student blog project.

This exhibit outlines the course content for an Advanced Podcasting class offered as part of the 2007 Apple Distinguished Educator Institute

Students explore their world and research their discoveries. Their topic can be about their city, school, local geography, historical site, event, history, etc. Once they gather their information, they build a presentation using a medium of their choice. We suggest print, photos, podcasting, video, or web design.

A step by step guide to think about incorporating global travel within any high school or college class.

This field trip looks at forests and forest systems such as photosynthesis and respiration. When Dr. Jess Parker, head of SERC's Forest Ecology Lab, walks through a forest, he looks up. The forest canopy is a microclimate of its own, one that absorbs sunlight and rain, removes particles like dust and pollen, and even affects the pH of rainwater as it makes its way down to the forest floor. The forest ceiling houses the machinery of photosynthesis, controls the growth of the entire forest, and provides habitat for many organisms.

Join Tom Jolly, Sports Editor of The New York Times on a webcast from The Baseball Hall of Fame. His guests will be Lou Brock and Carlton Fisk. They'll discuss some of the significant developments in baseball, including diversity, how sports coverage in the media has changed, the business of sports, as well as anecdotes and inside stories from Hall of Fame Baseball greats.

A cosmic story unfolds in the Moon, Meteorites and Solar System Gallery as Smithsonian scientists explain how space "artifacts" help us understand the origin and shape of the Earth, Moon, and Solar System.

African Voices celebrates Africa as a historic and living entity with contemporary and future relevance. African stories are told through more than 400 objects from the museum’s collection as well as photographs, film, video interactives and sound stations.

Native people have lived on the lands and waterways along the North Pacific Coast for more than 10,000 years. Their stories and traditions link them to the natural world in which they live. Through songs, dances, and ceremonies, the Native people of the North Pacific Coast honor their past and celebrate their present. Start your visit at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. where you will hear stories of eleven different Native communities from the North Pacific Coast. See how they present their own stories and give voice to their own world views through the museum's collection. Then, with the help of the Sealaska Heritage Institute, take a trip to Juneau, Alaska! Students can enjoy the abundance of the rich Alaskan environment, learn about the importance of family in Alaska Native communities, and find out about the significance of cultural expression through art, language, and traditional customs. Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian elders and traditional knowledge keepers will help expand students' understanding of the vital history and vibrant cultures of the Native people of the North Pacific Coastm - where everything tells a story!

This project identifies resources available in iTunesU for the classrom teacher. From art to zoology there are some great tools for teachers an students.