Rainforest CLASSROOM

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. .

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.

It's the largest secular holiday in the world, yet most people don't really know why or how it started. This video gets you up to speed.

If you could consume coffee in the amount that these beetles could, you would drink 230 cups of coffee per day! Coffee boring beetles cause $500,000,000 of d...

Set in the world of a spoofed prescription drug commercial, Nature Rx offers a hearty dose of laughs and the outdoors - two timeless prescriptions for whatev...

Not every part of the rainforest is filled with towering canopies! We discovered an area with trees only twice my height, and it took a couple of geologists ...

Like many kids, I dissected owl pellets when I was in school - but I never realized they can be used by scientists to learn about certain aspects of an ecosystem. And today, paleontologists like Matt McDowell are using these pellets to learn about the history of an environment, to preserve them for the future

 What advice to you give other women in science? Haley got the chance to visit the California Academy of Sciences for the #SciWomen16 Summit. Here is what the women there had to say.

'Will Meg take her kids up the tree and risk their lives or will she leave them at the bottom of the tree with all the poisonous snakes?' Dr. Lowman shares h...

Dr. Matt Bertone talks to Sindya Bhanoo, The New York Times Observatory columnist, and her daughter about the bugs that live in our homes. Questions? #asksci...

How do we save the world? How do we save the planet? There is no one easy solution, but we wanted to start the global discussion. Tell us which one you think...