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Africa: The Serengeti
Witness a spectacle that few humans have ever witnessed: the Great Migration, taking viewers on a journey with over 1.5 million animals as they travel more than 500 miles across the Serengeti plains in Tanzania and Kenya.
| Format | Omni Film |
| Grades | 3 – Adult |
| Author | Graphic Films |
| Source/Publisher | Graphic Films |
| Location | Mugar Omni Theater — Museum of Science, Boston |
| Website | HMNS Films |
| Script | Africa_Script.pdf |
| Educator Guide | Africa_Guide.pdf |
| Documents | Africa_Poster.pdf |
| Reservation | Required at least two weeks in advance |
| Fee | $3 per person with Museum Exhibit Halls admission; $6 per person for Omni only |
Africa: The Serengeti
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Primary Connections:
National Science Education Standards (1996)
(National)
- Science in Personal and Social Perspectives > Population growth (Grade: 9 – 12)
- Life Science > Populations and ecosystems (Grade: 5 – 8)
- Life Science > Diversity and adaptations of organisms (Grade: 5 – 8)
- Life Science > Diversity and adaptations of organisms (Grade: 5 – 8)
- Life Science > Populations and ecosystems (Grade: 5 – 8)
- Life Science > Populations and ecosystems (Grade: 5 – 8)
- Life Science > Regulation and behavior (Grade: 5 – 8)
- Science in Personal and Social Perspectives > Population growth (Grade: 9 – 12)
- Science in Personal and Social Perspectives > Population growth (Grade: 9 – 12)
- Science in Personal and Social Perspectives > Natural resources (Grade: 9 – 12)
- Science in Personal and Social Perspectives > Natural and human-induced hazards (Grade: 9 – 12)
- Science in Personal and Social Perspectives > Environmental quality (Grade: 9 – 12)
- Life Science > Interdependence of organisms (Grade: 9 – 12)
- Life Science > Interdependence of organisms (Grade: 9 – 12)
- Life Science > Regulation and behavior (Grade: 5 – 8)
- Life Science > Regulation and behavior (Grade: 5 – 8)
- Life Science > Regulation and behavior (Grade: 5 – 8)
MA Science and Technology/Engineering Framework (2006)
(Massachusetts)
- Life Science (Biology) > Changes in Ecosystems Over Time (Grade: 6 – 8)
- Life Science (Biology) > Energy and Living Things (Grade: 6 – 8)
- Life Science (Biology) > Energy and Living Things (Grade: 6 – 8)
- Life Science (Biology) > Living Things and Their Environment (Grade: 6 – 8)
- Life Science (Biology) > Adaptations of Living Things (Grade: 3 – 5)
- Life Science (Biology) > Adaptations of Living Things (Grade: 3 – 5)
- Life Science (Biology) > Adaptations of Living Things (Grade: 3 – 5)
Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Framework (2003)
(Massachusetts)
- Geography > Africa (Grade: 6)
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Primary Connections:
National Science Education Standards (1996)
(National)
- Science in Personal and Social Perspectives > Population growth (Grade: 9 – 12)
Various factors influence birth rates and fertility rates, such as average levels of affluence and education, importance of children in the labor force, education and employment of women, infant mortality rates, costs of raising children, availability and reliability of birth control methods, and religious beliefs and cultural norms that influence personal decisions about family size. - Life Science > Populations and ecosystems (Grade: 5 – 8)
The number of organisms an ecosystem can support depends on the resources available and abiotic factors, such as quantity of light and water, range of temperatures, and soil composition. Given adequate biotic and abiotic resources and no disease or predators, populations (including humans) increase at rapid rates. Lack of resources and other factors, such as predation and climate, limit the growth of populations in specific niches in the ecosystem. - Life Science > Diversity and adaptations of organisms (Grade: 5 – 8)
Extinction of a species occurs when the environment changes and the adaptive characteristics of a species are insufficient to allow its survival. Fossils indicate that many organisms that lived long ago are extinct. Extinction of species is common; most of the species that have lived on the earth no longer exist. - Life Science > Diversity and adaptations of organisms (Grade: 5 – 8)
Biological evolution accounts for the diversity of species developed through gradual processes over many generations. Species acquire many of their unique characteristics through biological adaptation, which involves the selection of naturally occurring variations in populations. Biological adaptations include changes in structures, behaviors, or physiology that enhance survival and reproductive success in a particular environment. - Life Science > Populations and ecosystems (Grade: 5 – 8)
A population consists of all individuals of a species that occur together at a given place and time. All populations living together and the physical factors with which they interact compose an ecosystem. - Life Science > Populations and ecosystems (Grade: 5 – 8)
Populations of organisms can be categorized by the function they serve in an ecosystem. Plants and some micro-organisms are producers--they make their own food. All animals, including humans, are consumers, which obtain food by eating other organisms. Decomposers, primarily bacteria and fungi, are consumers that use waste materials and dead organisms for food. Food webs identify the relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers in an ecosystem. - Life Science > Regulation and behavior (Grade: 5 – 8)
All organisms must be able to obtain and use resources, grow, reproduce, and maintain stable internal conditions while living in a constantly changing external environment. - Science in Personal and Social Perspectives > Population growth (Grade: 9 – 12)
Populations grow or decline through the combined effects of births and deaths, and through emigration and immigration. Populations can increase through linear or exponential growth, with effects on resource use and environmental pollution. - Science in Personal and Social Perspectives > Population growth (Grade: 9 – 12)
Populations can reach limits to growth. Carrying capacity is the maximum number of individuals that can be supported in a given environment. The limitation is not the availability of space, but the number of people in relation to resources and the capacity of earth systems to support human beings. Changes in technology can cause significant changes, either positive or negative, in carrying capacity. - Science in Personal and Social Perspectives > Natural resources (Grade: 9 – 12)
Humans use many natural systems as resources. Natural systems have the capacity to reuse waste, but that capacity is limited. Natural systems can change to an extent that exceeds the limits of organisms to adapt naturally or humans to adapt technologically. - Science in Personal and Social Perspectives > Natural and human-induced hazards (Grade: 9 – 12)
Normal adjustments of earth may be hazardous for humans. Humans live at the interface between the atmosphere driven by solar energy and the upper mantle where convection creates changes in the earth's solid crust. As societies have grown, become stable, and come to value aspects of the environment, vulnerability to natural processes of change has increased. - Science in Personal and Social Perspectives > Environmental quality (Grade: 9 – 12)
Many factors influence environmental quality. Factors that students might investigate include population growth, resource use, population distribution, overconsumption, the capacity of technology to solve problems, poverty, the role of economic, political, and religious views, and different ways humans view the earth. - Life Science > Interdependence of organisms (Grade: 9 – 12)
Organisms both cooperate and compete in ecosystems. The interrelationships and interdependencies of these organisms may generate ecosystems that are stable for hundreds or thousands of years. - Life Science > Interdependence of organisms (Grade: 9 – 12)
Human beings live within the world's ecosystems. Increasingly, humans modify ecosystems as a result of population growth, technology, and consumption. Human destruction of habitats through direct harvesting, pollution, atmospheric changes, and other factors is threatening current global stability, and if not addressed, ecosystems will be irreversibly affected. - Life Science > Regulation and behavior (Grade: 5 – 8)
An organism's behavior evolves through adaptation to its environment. How a species moves, obtains food, reproduces, and responds to danger are based in the species' evolutionary history. - Life Science > Regulation and behavior (Grade: 5 – 8)
Behavior is one kind of response an organism can make to an internal or environmental stimulus. A behavioral response requires coordination and communication at many levels, including cells, organ systems, and whole organisms. Behavioral response is a set of actions determined in part by heredity and in part from experience. - Life Science > Regulation and behavior (Grade: 5 – 8)
Regulation of an organism's internal environment involves sensing the internal environment and changing physiological activities to keep conditions within the range required to survive.
MA Science and Technology/Engineering Framework (2006)
(Massachusetts)
- Life Science (Biology) > 17 Changes in Ecosystems Over Time (Grade: 6 – 8)
Identify ways in which ecosystems have changed throughout geologic time in response to physical conditions, interactions among organisms, and the actions of humans. Describe how changes may be catastrophes such as volcanic eruptions or ice storms. - Life Science (Biology) > 15 Energy and Living Things (Grade: 6 – 8)
Explain how dead plants and animals are broken down by other living organisms and how this process contributes to the system as a whole. - Life Science (Biology) > 14 Energy and Living Things (Grade: 6 – 8)
Explain the roles and relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers in the process of energy transfer in a food web. - Life Science (Biology) > 13 Living Things and Their Environment (Grade: 6 – 8)
Give examples of ways in which organisms interact and have different functions within an ecosystem that enable the ecosystem to survive. - Life Science (Biology) > 10 Adaptations of Living Things (Grade: 3 – 5)
Give examples of how organisms can cause changes in their environment to ensure survival. Explain how some of these changes may affect the ecosystem. - Life Science (Biology) > 08 Adaptations of Living Things (Grade: 3 – 5)
Describe how organisms meet some of their needs in an environment by using behaviors (patterns of activities) in response to information (stimuli) received from the environment. Recognize that some animal behaviors are instinctive (e.g., turtles burying their eggs), and others are learned (e.g., humans building fires for warmth, chimpanzees learning how to use tools). - Life Science (Biology) > 07 Adaptations of Living Things (Grade: 3 – 5)
Give examples of how changes in the environment (drought, cold) have caused some plants and animals to die or move to new locations (migration).
Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Framework (2003)
(Massachusetts)
- Geography > A.1 Africa (Grade: 6)
On a map of the world, locate the continent of Africa, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Great Rift Valley. On a map of Africa, locate the northern, eastern, western, central, and southern regions of Africa, the Sahara Desert, the Nile River, Lake Victoria, Mount Kilimanjaro, and the Cape of Good Hope.
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