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Here are 49 rainforest books to help you introduce your students to the beauty and powerful diversity of this amazing region of the world. ... 
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As an organization that works to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin, we were thrilled when Kimberly Todd and Valerie Robert, two talented and socially conscious teachers, reached out to us with...
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Because I had attended two summers of professional development at the Educator Academy in the Amazon Rainforest, I also wanted the theme to include local–global connections. “Exploring Local and Global Environments—Past, Present, and Future” was painted on a large banner that was hung prominently in the front of my classroom.
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The practice of observing detail over time, analyzing deeply and applying different perspectives helps students appreciate the richness of the world we live in.
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"PEI workshops include FieldSTEM® guides for educators providing frameworks for how to implement rigorous, integrated, outdoor field experiences with students."
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Excited to be adding this great guide from Pacific Education Institute to the resource kit for the Educator Academy in the Amazon! You can get it NOW as a free download https://pacificeducationinstitute.org/work/fieldstem-resources/
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The Amazonian amphibian produces a chemical camouflage that renders it invisible to its aggressive ant neighbors.
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Awesomeness! Resources, videos and readings to help you understand what's going on in the Amazon and why - all in one place!
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Students will analyze a real-world environmental case of building a road through the Amazon rain forest. They will explore the geographical, cultural, and environmental context of building the road, identify the stakeholders and their role and impact, and map out the intended and unintended consequences from the decision that they make.
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Not to date ourselves, but we are children of the 80’s. We grew up watching shows like Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom and we know the National Geographic theme song better than the national anthem.
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Did you know @thebugchicks are on our faculty for the Educator Academy in the Amazon?
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Discover all the incredible educational materials available for HHMI's AMAZON ADVENTURE award winning film which tells the science adventure story of Henry Bates and his extraordinary 11-year journey through the Amazon. Despite being entirely self-taught, he made crucial contributions to evolutionary biology. While identifying 8,000 species new to science, he discovered the phenomenon of “Batesian” mimicry and provided to Charles Darwin the “beautiful proof” for what is widely considered the most important scientific explanation of the development of life on Earth – natural selection. .
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Help CONAPAC and the Morpho Institute bring binoculars to student birders in the remote Amazon.
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For the past decade or so, Jason Weir has travelled into the Amazon rainforest to play songs to hundreds of birds.
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IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C; IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land; IPBES Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services; IPBES Assessment Report on Land Degredation and Restoration
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A helpful summary of the recent IPCC Special Reports on Climate Change and Biodiversity
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Journey into the largest tract of tropical rainforest on our planet —Amazonia — the forests and wetlands of the Amazon River basin and Guiana Shield in South America — is invaluable to human well-being: We need it to breathe, store carbon and provide critical medicines.
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Trek through a tropical rainforest and explore the incredible diversity of species that call it home.
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great resource from the California Academy of Sciences
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Mining, logging, ranching, agriculture, and oil and gas extraction have put unsustainable pressure on the delicate rain forests of the Amazon Basin.
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Fantastic Resource for teaching about the importance of the Amazon!
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Amazon Adventure: How Tiny Fish Are Saving the World’s Largest Rainforest by Sy Montgomery. 2017. Photographs by Keith Ellenbogen. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Genre: Illustrated nonfiction chapter book. Levels: Grade 4 through adult. Features: Outstanding illustrations from the wild habitat of the Amazon rainforest, intriguing details backed by impressive firsthand field research, selected bibliography…
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"As a child, I collected picture books of animals and mapped out trips I hoped to take as an adult. I spent my entire childhood longing for the opportunity to travel to somewhere exotic where I could stand in awe of and photograph real nature and real wildlife. I was infatuated with the vast landscapes of the Serengeti and the hidden world of the Amazon rainforest. I never realized my backyard was home to countless exotic creatures living in highly complex ecosystems.
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Yes!
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Venture into the heart of the Amazon and discover your connection to the world’s largest rainforest through Voyager, Google Earth’s storytelling platform.
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Natural environment has been critical in shaping our species and how we have evolved over millennia. As nations worldwide continue to tackle climate change-related issues, many have identified that the next generation will need to be educated about the challenges ahead of them.
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What are you doing to support EE in your classroom?
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Citizen science helps scientists and society. There are projects in astronomy, physics, biochemistry, and more. Find out what it is and how to get involved.
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Indigenous peoples of the Amazon and Climate Change. Interactive Calendar infographic brings together river level and rainfall measurements and the seasons of the year as informed by indigenous researchers of the region, together with the names of the astronomical constellations as identified by Tukano elders. Instituto Socioambiental - ISA with the team of InfoAmazonia.
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The Amazon rainforest is one of the world's most unique and important ecosystems. Yet the health of the rainforest and the people who live there i
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The four STEM apps get kids moving in different ways, whether by looking up at the sky, analyzing how their own bodies move, discovering unique objects to
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Some species of ants harbor bacteria that produce antifungal compounds. Despite millions of years of evolution, the fungi still haven't become resistant.
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