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Embark on an educational journey in IMAX at Marbles and engage students with movies that educate, enlighten and entertain. IMAX documentaries present knowledge in a powerful, popular medium that will inspire lively classroom discussion. Add an optional Learning Lab to your visit and expand on movie content with hands-on activities. Students will be captivated like never before with a larger-than-life learning experience on NC’s biggest screen!
More about Learning Labs:
- 45 minutes of hands-on activities for 4th and 5th grade students
- Expand on content of IMAX documentaries
- Content aligned with the new Common Core and NC Essential Standards
 To The Arctic 3D + Optional Learning Lab
Venture to the top of the world to watch a mother polar bear and her twin cubs struggle to survive in a frigid environment of melting ice, immense glaciers, spectacular waterfalls and majestic snowbound peaks. Captivating and adventurous footage brings you up close and personal to this extraordinary story of survival in the Arctic.
Narrated by Meryl Streep; 45 minutes
NC Science Essential Standards Match: K-8
To The Arctic 3D Learning Lab
Join a team in the field to conduct research on polar bears, sea ice and the changing Arctic ecosystem. Learn what we can do to protect the polar bear and preserve its endangered home. Support for this Learning Lab provided by MacGillivray Freeman Films Educational Foundation.
NC Science Essential Standards Match: 4-8
To The Arctic 3D Official Film Website
To The Arctic 3D Educator Guide |
 Flight of the Butterflies 3D + Optional Learning Lab
Experience the longest insect migration on Earth and soar alongside half a billion butterflies heading south on a perilous 3,000 mile journey across North America. Watch the skies with wonder as the butterflies unite countries and cultures and turn scientists into detectives to uncover the amazing end to the epic journey of these tiny creatures.
Narrated by Gordon Pinsent; 40 minutes
NC Science Essential Standards Match: K, 1, 2, 4, 6, 8
Flight of the Butterflies Learning Lab
Students become entomologists and take to the field and the lab to study monarchs and other butterflies. Conduct tests, monitor migration, investigate the environment of genetics and explore insect flight.
NC Science Essential Standards Match: 4-8
Flight of the Butterflies 3D Official Film Website |
 Born to be Wild 3D + Optional Learning Lab
Experience the incredible story of two adorable and endangered species – orangutans and elephants – and the trailblazing heroes saving them from extinction in Kenya and Borneo.
Narrated by Morgan Freeman; 40 minutes
NC Science Essential Standards Match: K, 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8
Born to Be Wild Learning Lab
Become a wildlife rehabilitator and work in the rainforest of Borneo and the savannah of
Africa. Investigate animal behavior and adaptations, ecosystems and the geography
and culture of Kenya and Indonesia. Support for this Learning Lab has been provided by the Biogen Idec Foundation Micro-Grants in Science Education Fund of the Triangle Community Foundation.
NC Science Essential Standards Match: 4, 6, 8
Born to be Wild 3D Official Film Website
Born to be Wild 3D Educator Guide
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 Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West + Optional Learning Lab
Two captains, courageous in spirit and unyielding in dedication to their mission, lead a group of explorers to the Pacific Ocean and back. Experience the danger and beauty of the unknown West as it unfolds before the eyes of Lewis and Clark during their journey into uncharted territory to find a new water passageway and to describe for science the wonders they encounter.
Narrated by Jeff Bridges; 40 minutes
NC Social Studies Essential Standards Match: 5, 8
Lewis & Clark Learning Lab
American history comes to life as students join the Corps of Discovery on a journey back
in time to the uncharted West to explore maps, geography and Native American culture and make scientific discoveries.
NC Social Studies Essential Standards Match: 5, 8
Lewis & Clark Official Film Website
Lewis & Clark Educator's Guides
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 Forces of Nature + Optional Learning Lab
Experience the power and spectacle of tornadoes, floods, erupting volcanoes and hurricanes. Learn how natural disasters occur and what scientists and engineers are doing to predict and prepare for events in the future.
Narrated by Kevin Bacon; 40 minutes
NC Science Essential Standards Match: 2, 4, 5, 6, 7
Forces of Nature Learning Lab
Prepare to become emergency responders, explore severe weather, natural disasters, plate tectonics and how to protect people from the earth’s destructive powers.
Support for this Learning Lab has been provided by Time Warner Cable’s Connect a Million Minds Initiative.
NC Science Essential Standards Match: 4, 5, 6, 7
*Connect a Million Minds (CAMM) is Time Warner Cable's five-year, $100 million philanthropic initiative to connect youth to ideas, people and opportunities that will inspire them to pursue education and careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). Learn more at http://connectamillionminds.com.
Click here to view a News 14 Carolina video news story on the Forces of Nature Learning Lab at Marbles.
Forces of Nature Learning Lab Introduction
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 Hubble 3D + Optional Learning Lab
Explore the grandeur of galaxies and nebulae, the birth and death of stars and the curiosities and mysteries of our celestial surroundings through an amazing treasure trove of never-before-seen imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio; 44 minutes
NC Science Essential Standards Match: 4, 6
Hubble 3D Learning Lab
Train for NASA's STS125 mission to repair Hubble with astronaut qualification, rocket building and launching and viewing the world from a new perspective through discovery and observation.
Hubble 3D Official Film Website
Hubble 3D Educator Resource Guide - Grades 3-5
Hubble 3D Educator Resource Guide - Grades 6-8
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 The Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D
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