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Join us regularly for a wide variety of educational programming through our Digital Learning Events. A virtual field trip can quickly transport your students to a national museum or even a dinosaur dig. Bring content experts into your classroom to enrich special units of study or let one of our fun and informative Education Series become a standard part of your instruction. And while you're here, why not advance your own professional growth by tuning in to important conference keynotes, webcasts, video and audio interviews with educational leaders and more.
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NASA Destination Tomorrow: Program 22
Program 22 highlights the premier event for the Small Aircraft Transportation System or SATS. Find out how this new system is being developed to change transportation as we know it.
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Painting The Corners: Art And Inspiration
We see the influence of baseball everyday. Baseball is known as the "National Pastime" because it has been around so long and because so many people have such strong feelings for the game and for their team.
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NASA SCI Files: The Case of the Physical Fitness Challenge
The tree house detectives are eager to win the Presidential Physical Fitness Award, but one of the detectives is not quite up to the challenge. They decide that it is time for a little research to learn more about being fit...
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Here Today; Gone to Mars
Authors: NASA Distance Learning
Description: As NASA turns its attention to human travel to the Moon and Mars, there are many hurdles to overcome. NASA Quest challenges students primarily in grades 5-8 to work with the help of NASA scientists to design solutions to these obstacles.
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2005 Exploring Space Lectures
Authors: National Air and Space Museum
Description: This year's lecture series will explore key questions surrounding these ancient rocks in space. What are they made of? What is their history? How have they influenced Earth's past and how might they affect its future? Lectures will include current and future programs exploring the remnants of the Solar System's earliest days.
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Surveying Costa Rican Mushrooms
Authors: The Field Museum
Description: Enter the tropical oak forests of Costa Rica with Field Museum Curator and Mycologist Dr. Greg Mueller and his research partners and discover the beauty and importance of mushrooms and other fungi.
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NASA Adds New Dimension to Air Transportation Challenge
Authors: NASA Ames
Description: During this 8-week Quest Challenge, students will use NASA's Future Flight Design, a web-based, interactive, problem-based learning environment, developed to engage students in finding solutions for tomorrow's overcrowded airports.
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Sacagawea Joins the Expedition
Authors: The Discovery Expedition
Description: While wintering with the Mandan, Lewis and Clark met a young woman, the wife of the fur trader Charbonneau. Though they didn't realize it at the time, their decision to ask Charbonneau to join them as a translator would prove fortuitous indeed...
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The Holocaust Museum Experience: Exploring Daily Decision-Making
Authors: Ball State University
Description:Through the lens of history, students will then be asked to explore the consequences of their own daily decision-making, both on their immediate environment and the world at large.
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Digital Learning Events
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The items featured on this page are only a small part of our great collection of Teaching and Learning materials. You may browse the complete collection using the links below.
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Education Series Contributors
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Apple is honored to welcome the following organizations as Series Contributors. Make these full collections of high-quality content a regular part of your classroom activities!
The Field Museum
Explore new worlds by delving into live and archived video reports created by The Field Museum. Tune in with your students to learn about conservation in the rain forest, ecosystem research in biodiversity, protected habitats, and more.
Sci-Q
SciQ is a collaborative partnership project that fosters science learning for K-12 students in Alberta and Canada. Since its inception in 2001, SciQ has focused on combining engaging science-related content with innovative technology to provide learning resources for students, teachers, and parents.
NASA Center for Distance Learning
Designed to "inspire the next generation of Explorers as only NASA can," the NASA Center for Distance Learning programs focus on science, technology, engineering and mathematics and span the educational horizon from K - adult. The following programs will be contributing content on a monthly basis.
Ball State Series Page
The E3 Electonic Field Trips are a dynamic combination of live, interactive broadcasts which bring content experts into your classroom and provide your students with standards based explorations which keep students excited about the subject you teach. Be sure to explore our archived events and Fall lineup.
Race Rocks
Lester Pearson College uses live QuickTime streaming to share the resources of Race Rocks Island.
Lewis and Clark Series Page
Content in this series will grow over a three-year period as part of the National Bicentennial Commemoration of the original expedition of the Lewis & Clark Corps of Discovery. Have your students join interactive videoconferences with content experts and watch live webcast from the field as this cross-country reenactment takes place.
Koko TV
Learning from Koko, we develop an understanding of the extraordinary similarities among species, as well as our responsibility and potential as the "stewarding" species.
Audio Education Series Page
These audio interviews bring you professional growth opportunities each month as educational leaders discuss issues and solutions in public education.
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QuickTime Resources
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Videography for Educators
Learn the basics of how to capture effective video in the classroom.
eZedia QTI
eZedia QTI is a new tool which makes it possible to create interactive QuickTime movies.
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