Nim's Island — Our World: A Reel Thinking™ Event - Hosted by Jeff Corwin on Animal Planet - Wednesday, April 2 at 10 AM EST/PST

Reel Thinking™ is an interdisciplinary approach to using media to engage your students in the world around them. Using standards-based content, Reel Thinking Events leverage kids' interest in media to create comprehensive learning experiences.

Put on your Reel Thinking™ cap with any or all of these great tools:

Use the lesson plans available here. Created with the National Wildlife Federation and the NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries Program, our lesson plans are based on national standards and cover subjects including Science, English/Language Arts, Social Studies, Mathematics, Visual Arts, and Character Education.

Watch Nim's Island Our World: A Reel Thinking Event hosted by Jeff Corwin on Animal Planet together as a class on Wednesday, April 2 at 10 AM EST/PST to build on the standards-based content of our educational materials. Learn more about our Earth and how we can affect it's future for the better from Nim's Island cast members, National Wildlife Federation and National Marine Sanctuaries officials, real kids and Nim's animal friends.

Go Green to Get Green. Encourage your students to use what they've learned to come up with an environmental project to enter in the Nim's Island Reel Thinking Environmental Challenge. Kids, individually or in groups or classrooms, can enter to win cash prizes to fund their projects. Use what you've learned to create a long-term project with your kids.

Read the book. See the movie. Meet Nim, a hero who loves books, her scientist dad, and her animal friends. Students will be inspired to be real-life Nims by learning about the world around them and respecting and protecting their "Island" - Our World!