2019 AISL PI Meeting Poster: Amazon Adventure: Evaluating the Impact of Narrative in the Giant Screen Format to Engage and Educate

February 11th, 2019 | RESEARCH

Amazon Adventure is a giant screen film that tells the science adventure story of Henry Bates who travels to the Amazon in the 1850s to find evidence of species change. His quest turns into an 11-year journey in which he discovers 8,000 species new to science and what would be called “Batesian Mimicry”.

Document

AA-Final-Poster-Session-CAISE-2.pdf

Team Members

Diane Carlson, Principal Investigator, Pacific Science Center Foundation

Funders

Funding Source: NSF
Funding Program: AISL
Award Number: 1423655

Related URLs

Amazon Adventure: A Giant Screen Film, Educational Outreach and Research About 2D, 3D & Dome Formats Using a Gaming Assessment Tool

Tags

Audience: Evaluators | General Public | Museum | ISE Professionals
Discipline: Ecology | forestry | agriculture | History | policy | law | Life science
Resource Type: Conference Proceedings | Reference Materials
Environment Type: Films and IMAX | Media and Technology