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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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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
The Morpho Institute's insight:
A helpful summary of the recent IPCC Special Reports on Climate Change and Biodiversity
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Join us in Peru for our annual Educator Academy in the Amazon, July 1-11. Get the details here: https://morphoinstitute.org/educator-academy/
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In this video segment, adapted from Navajo Technical College, two Navajo Elders speak about climate change and differences in the environment that they have observed.
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One of the most life-changing experiences I’ve had was being in the Amazon for ten days. From a distance, the forest may seem like a big uniform patch of green, but the Amazon consists of many worlds…
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Bloomsbury September 2017 ISBN 9781408885284 RRP $16.99 We all know some young explorers; the ones who love adventure, the ones who watch Bear Grylls for the survival tips, the ones who pore over atlases and illustrated books of exotic places. These are the ones who will adore this new book from Katherine Rundell with its…
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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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Did a biblical-scale flood—or the rise of the Andes—give the Amazon its amazing biodiversity?
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As a school librarian, I know that it makes sense to teach multimedia literacy skills collaboratively with the classroom teacher rather than in isolation. So I have been very lucky to collaborate with my colleague, Lisa Ross, 3rd-grade classroom teacher. Lisa decided to introduce her class of 14 students to the Amazon rainforest. After reading…
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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.
The Morpho Institute's insight:
Fantastic Resource for teaching about the importance of the Amazon!
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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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Why care about the Amazon Rainforest? Find out with Untamed Science!
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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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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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In a great demonstration of feminine unity and strength as part of the indigenous movement across the Amazon, thousands of indigenous women have mobilized in Brazil’s capital city since yesterday as part of the country’s first Indigenous Women’s March. Carrying banners with the slogan “Territory: our body, our spirit,”, women have taken to the streets to make their voices heard and to denounce the policies of Brazil’s far-right president Bolsonaro, which have set the stage for escalating violations of indigenous rights, racism, violence and the most alarming Amazon deforestation rates in recent memory.
Marching side by side with women from over 110 ethnic groups in Brazil, indigenous women leaders from other regions of the Amazon have also joined in the mobilization to express their solidarity and to share their struggles in defence of their ancestral rainfores
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How the lost constellations of indigenous North Americans can connect culture, science, and inspire the next generation of indigenous scientists.
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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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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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Amazon Adventure tells the epic, true story of explorer Henry Bates' fascinating 11 year journey, through the biodiverse Amazon rainforest, as a young man who risks his life for science in the 1850’s.
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The gripping tale of four youngsters plunged into the Amazon forest will delight with its warmth and wisdom
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The Amazonian amphibian produces a chemical camouflage that renders it invisible to its aggressive ant neighbors.
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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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