Curriculum Resources

Looking for educational material relating to all of the movies in our film library? Look no further!

Here you will find thought provoking questions and assignments written for third graders all the way up to high school students. Just click on a link below to visit their web site or download the associated PDF (Adobe Reader required for proper viewing and printing).

Teachers' Guides:

Michigan Curriculum Framework

Lesson Plans Created by: Learning To Give

Complete lesson plans linking the IMAX movie experience with the Michigan Curriculum Framework Standards and Benchmarks for Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts are available.

Use the Teacher Guides to introduce the movie to your class prior to the IMAX experience, and then integrate the movie themes and content into your classroom studies after your students’ IMAX visit.

These exciting and helpful new curricular resources for teachers are the result of a collaboration and innovative partnership between the Learning to Give project of the Council of Michigan Foundations, Learning to Give -Michigan, a service of Grand Valley State University's College of Education, and IMAX Celebration Cinema.

Learn more about our partnership with GVSU's College of Education and the Learning to Give curriculum resources that are available to you and your school.

Kent ISD KC4 Curriculum

We would like to introduce you to our partnership with the Kent ISD - Teaching & Learning Solutions. This exciting new partnership has provided us with new resources to enhance classroom instruction. The Kent ISD's 'Kent County Collaborative Core Curriculum' (KC4) is aligned with the Michigan Curriculum Framework and is used in many schools in Kent County and beyond. Go to KentISD.org/kc4 for more information on the KC4 Curriculum.

'Connections' show where the activities in the 'IMAX Teacher Resource Guides' (available for downloading on this page) are connected to the Kent ISD's KC4 curriculum standards.

'Focus Questions' have been developed to assist teachers and parents in discussing the films with their students / children. These 'Focus Questions' are organized by grade level and reference the KC4 standards which are aligned with the film.