It’s easy to claim that any natural history/science film automatically ensures lifelong learning, but it’s not so easy to prove. When your main funding partners are the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, you have to get the lifelong learning testing just right.

Maryland Science Center’s comprehensive educator workshop to support the film Flight of the Butterflies (SK Films) was instrumental in building awareness of the film among teachers and the general public, encouraging monarch-related citizen science efforts, and providing film viewers with additional information and resources to extend learning well beyond the science center visit and film screening.

The award-winning giant screen film Flight of the Butterflies (SK Films) was the perfect programming complement to the butterfly garden at the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) in Tampa, Florida, US, and “Butterfly Boogie” was the perfect educational program to go with it.