Imax
Amazon
Follow the Amazon River from its source in the high Andes, through the rain forest, and into the majestic Amazon basin. Join an American scientist and a native medicine man on their parallel quests to find healing plants. Dr. Mark Plotkin is a real-life ethnobotanist, a scientist who studies cultures and plants. As Plotkin travels upriver, a fictional shaman named Julio Mamani descends from the Andes. Both the scientist and the traditional Indian shaman contribute to finding medicinal plants that may yield cures for disease.
Throughout the film, images of the Amazon sprawl across the larger-than-life IMAX® Dome screen. Footage of enigmatic Machu Picchu, river rapids and waterfalls, stunning wildlife, and cultural customs helped Amazon earn a Best Documentary Film (Short Subject) Academy Award® nomination.
Please note: Film contains nudity.
| Format | Omni Film |
| Grades | 3 – 12 |
| Author | Loren McIntyre |
| Source/Publisher | MacGillivray Freeman Films |
| Location | Mugar Omni Theater — Museum of Science, Boston |
| Website | Visit website |
| Media | OPEN VIDEO |
| Script | AMAZON2.pdf |
| Reservation | Required at least two weeks in advance |
| Fee | $3 per person with Museum Exhibit Halls admission; $6 per person for Omni only |
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+ View Detailed Standard Connections
Primary Connections:
National Science Education Standards (1996)
(National)
- Life Science > Regulation and behavior (Grade: 5 – 8)
- Science as Inquiry > Understanding about scientific inquiry (Grade: K – 4)
- Life Science > Organisms and environments (Grade: K – 4)
MA Science and Technology/Engineering Framework (2006)
(Massachusetts)
- Life Science (Biology) > Living Things and Their Environment (Grade: 6 – 8)
- Life Science (Biology) > Characteristics of Plants and Animals (Grade: 3 – 5)
Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Framework (2003)
(Massachusetts)
- Geography > South America (Grade: 6)
- History, Geography, and Economics > Pre-Columbian Civilizations of the New World and European Exploration, Colonization, and Settlement to 1701 (Grade: 5)
- Geography > From Many, One (Grade: 2)
Secondary Connections:
Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Framework (2003)
(Massachusetts)
- History, Geography, and Economics > Pre-Columbian Civilizations of the New World and European Exploration, Colonization, and Settlement to 1701 (Grade: 5)
– View Concise Standard Connections
Primary Connections:
National Science Education Standards (1996)
(National)
- 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. - Science as Inquiry > Understanding about scientific inquiry (Grade: K – 4)
Scientists use different kinds of investigations depending on the questions they are trying to answer. Types of investigations include describing objects, events, and organisms; classifying them; and doing a fair test (experimenting). - Life Science > Organisms and environments (Grade: K – 4)
All animals depend on plants. Some animals eat plants for food. Other animals eat animals that eat the plants.
MA Science and Technology/Engineering Framework (2006)
(Massachusetts)
- 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) > 01 Characteristics of Plants and Animals (Grade: 3 – 5)
Classify plants and animals according to the physical characteristics that they share.
Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Framework (2003)
(Massachusetts)
- Geography > SAM.1 South America (Grade: 6)
On a map of the world, locate South America and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. On a map of South America, locate the Amazon, the Andes Mountains, Cape Horn, and the southern, northern, eastern, and western regions of South America. - History, Geography, and Economics > 5.2 Pre-Columbian Civilizations of the New World and European Exploration, Colonization, and Settlement to 1701 (Grade: 5)
Identify the three major pre-Columbian civilizations that existed in Central and South America (Maya, Aztec, and Inca) and their locations. Describe their political structures, religious practices, and use of slaves. - Geography > 2.4 From Many, One (Grade: 2)
Locate five major rivers in the world: the Mississippi, Amazon, Volga, Yangtze, and Nile.
Secondary Connections:
Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Framework (2003)
(Massachusetts)
- History, Geography, and Economics > 5.2 Pre-Columbian Civilizations of the New World and European Exploration, Colonization, and Settlement to 1701 (Grade: 5)
Identify the three major pre-Columbian civilizations that existed in Central and South America (Maya, Aztec, and Inca) and their locations. Describe their political structures, religious practices, and use of slaves.
