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Create a field trip experience that connects to your classroom curriculum. Combine these films with educational programs to stimulate student learning and reinforce concepts!

Flying Monsters 3D Open Date: 3/2/12, Close Date: 8/30/12 For thousands of years, humans have believed that there were once flying monsters. Such creatures became mythologized, with stories about them shared around the world. But could they have really existed? About 220 million years ago dinosaurs were on the rise to dominating the Earth. But another group of reptiles was about to make an extraordinary leap—control of the skies. They were the pterosaurs—after insects, the first animals ever to fly. The story of how and why these mysterious creatures took to the air is more fantastical than any fiction.

In Flying Monsters 3D, Sir David Attenborough, the world’s leading naturalist, sets out to uncover the truth about the enigmatic pterosaurs. State-of-the-art, 3-D CGI (by creators whose credits include Harry Potter, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Avatar) re-creates these spectacular creatures and takes us into their world. Attenborough works with scientists and engineers to understand the incredible story of their evolution. It’s a story told through a series of stunning environments, including Big Bend National Park in Texas, Lyme Regis in the United Kingdom, and China’s remote Liaoning Province. In many ways the story of the pterosaur is the story of every creature that has ever flown.

Visit National Geographic's Education web page for Flying Monsters 3D teaching tools

The Last Reef 3D: Cities Beneath the Sea Open Date: 2/3/12, Close Date: 8/2/12 Fly across tropical reefs, brush through a cloud of a million jellyfish, visit an alien world where the closer you look, the more you see, where the tiniest creatures support the greatest predators... We think of reefs as exotic, distant places with little or no connection to our everyday world. Yet every reef is a living city beneath the sea with a parallel existence to ours, distant yet undeniably connected. Reefs are hotspots of biodiversity as vital to life on earth as the rain-forests. They have been shaping our shorelines, literally forming islands and mountains, for millions of years.