Rainforest Connection Live!
Panama 2013
February 18th-March 1st - Rainforest
March 8 and 14th -Cloud Forest
30-40 minute sessions for $150/each
By appointment:
Send email requests for Panama topics or Cloud Forest topics dates, grade level, and suggested times to Dot Stradford at stradfordd@mail.montclair.edu
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Visit these remote locations with our Rainforest Team: |
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Show this video to introduce students to upcoming Rainforest Connection visits: Call of the Wild Kingdom. This short African wildlife video shows the deserts of Namibia, savannahs of Botswana, and Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe.
Click here to watch a GREAT video clip and get a better understanding of the Rainforest Connection.
African Savannahs are in Worse Condition than the World's Rainforests: Read more here...
Learn more about the plight of the last harbor seal rookery in Southern California (live streaming webcam here).
Look and see what classes did during the Rainforest Connection!
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The videoconference hosts will explain research, answer questions, and show the flora and fauna of these habitats. Your class will ask questions and provide comparative information about the topics from your own local habitats and readings. Video Podcasts are offered to participant classes to supplement the live discussions.
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The first rainforest video-chats of the school year will be hosted from a remote eco-lodge in Belize in a forest with the highest density of jaguars in the world. PRISM videoconference programs feature live conversations with scientists, researchers, naturalists, teachers, and students from locations such as Panama, Belize, and Australia. The Belize experience will be hosted from ChanChich Lodge near the border of Guatemala, via satellite internet. You can view the location at their website: (
Talk with a biologist about snakes in the tropics like this venomous Fer-de-lance
