Michigan Curriculum
Lesson Plans Created by Learning To Give.
Complete lesson plans linking the IMAX movie experience with the Michigan Curriculum Framework Standards and Benchmarks for Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts are available.
Use the Teacher Guides to introduce the movie to your class prior to the IMAX experience, and then integrate the movie themes and content into your classroom studies after your students' IMAX visit.
These exciting and helpful new curricular resources for teachers are the result of a collaboration and innovative partnership between the Learning to Give project of the Council of Michigan Foundations, Learning to Give -Michigan, a service of Grand Valley State University's College of Education, and IMAX Celebration Cinema.
Visit our Partnership Page to learn more about our partnership with GVSU's College of Education and the Learning to Give curriculum resources that are available to you and your school.
Kent ISD KC4 Curriculum
We would like to introduce you to our partnership with the Kent ISD - Teaching & Learning Solutions. This exciting new partnership has provided us with new resources to enhance classroom instruction. The Kent ISD's 'Kent County Collaborative Core Curriculum' (KC4) is aligned with the Michigan Curriculum Framework and is used in many schools in Kent County and beyond. Visit the Kent ISD website for more information on the KC4 Curriculum.
Connections show where the activities in the 'IMAX Teacher Resource Guides' are connected to the Kent ISD's KC4 curriculum standards. The Teacher Guides are available for download along the right-hand column.
Focus Questions have been developed to assist teachers and parents in discussing the films with their students / children. These 'Focus Questions' are organized by grade level and reference the KC4 standards which are aligned with the film.
| The Human Body | ||
|---|---|---|
| 4th Grade | Connections | Focus Questions |
| 5th Grade | Connections | Focus Questions |
| 6th Grade | Connections | Focus Questions |
| 7th Grade | Connections | Focus Questions |
| 8th Grade | Connections | Focus Questions |
| HS | Connections | Focus Questions |
| Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 3rd Grade | Connections | Language Arts Focus Questions | Social Studies Focus Questions |
| 4th Grade | Connections | Language Arts Focus Questions | Science Focus Questions |
| 5th Grade | Connections | Language Arts Focus Questions | Social Studies Focus Questions |
| 6th Grade | Connections | Language Arts Focus Questions | |
| 7th Grade | Connections | Language Arts Focus Questions | |
| 8th Grade | Connections | Language Arts Focus Questions | Social Studies Focus Questions |
Teachers' Guides
- Amazon
- Africa's Elephant Kingdom
- Blue Planet
- Bugs! 3D
- Deep Sea 3D
- Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia 3D
- Everest
- Galapagos 3D
- Hurricane on the Bayou
- Human Body
- Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees
- Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West
- Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D
- Mysteries of the Great Lakes
- Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey
- Sea Monsters 3D
- Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure
- Under the Sea 3D
- Vikings: Journey to New Worlds
- Wild Safari 3D