Minotaur Mazes, Rainforest Adventure

Grab your pith helmet and head to the Miami Science Museum for a tropical rainforest journey.

Swing like a Spider monkey! Discover a rodent that weighs over a hundred pounds and a beetle that can carry over 850 times its own weight! Rainforest Adventure is a fully interactive maze environment where visitors explore one of the least known habitats on earth,

Chock full of the sights and sounds of a tropical rainforest, the journey begins in the highest treetops surrounded by migratory birds and radiant sunlight. In an effort to reach the forest floor, visitors answer questions about the rainforest. Incorrect answers lead to dead-ends while correct answers lead them deeper into the four layers of the rainforest: emergent, canopy, understory and forest floor.

Created by Minotaur Mazes, Rainforest Adventure offers visitors an interactive experience that empowers visitors to make a difference after they learn how essential rainforests are to human health and survival, and that by caring for the rainforest they are caring for the planet.

Teachers Guide

Rainforest Adventure Science Standards
Rainforest Alliance - Curriculum
The Rainforest Alliance Learning Site offers curricula and resources to help students understand how rainforests contribute to our collective well-being. This program teaches science, math, language arts and social studies essentials while addressing the National Standards for Learning. The multidisciplinary curricula present information on forests, wildlife and local communities. It provides a global perspective on the importance of protecting the world's natural resources and gives students opportunities for direct action.
Rainforest Action Network - Teacher Resources
A great introduction or refresher suitable for all elementary school student grades. The notes in each slide suggest ways of presenting the information so that it’s fun and interesting.
Teachers.net
Create a Rainforest in your classroom with the help of your student artists.

Web Resources

Minotaur Mazeshttp://www.rainforest-alliance.org/education.cfm?id=kidsmain
Rainforest Alliance
No matter how old you are, you can help protect rainforests. Check out coloring books, online rainforest stories, animal facts and more.
Rainforest Action Network
Create art, cook up fun recipes, and read all about the rainforests.
Rainforest Alliance Frequently Asked Questions
Here are answers to some of the most frequently asked questions from students who want to know more about rainforests and the plants and animals that live there.
Journey to Amazonia
PBS provides the opportunity for explorers to ‘Enter Amazonia’ providing information about the animals, plant-life, and human life that takes place in the world’s largest tropical rainforest.
Passport to Knowledge
Follow in Darwin’s footsteps, courtesy of Passport to Knowledge, to the heart of our planet’s largest rainforest, guided by some of the world’s leading biologists. Explore the rainforest through a project that uses video, real-time interactions, the Internet and hands-on science activities.
Rainforest Topics - Missouri Botanical Garden
Go through all different Rainforest topics. Learn the difference between a temperate and tropical rainforest. Discover different kinds of animal and plant species which habitat the rainforest.
Rainforest - ThinkQuest
Describes the climate, plants, and animals of the tropical rainforest, and also tackles the issues of deforestation, farming, ranching, loss of habitat, and loss of biodiversity.