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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: S Ic.2 Sarah, the Chimpanzee

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The purpose of this task is to give young scholars experience in using simulation to determine if observed results are consistent with a given model. The final part of the task also addresses the role of random assignments in the design...
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Handout
San Diego Zoo Global

San Diego Zoo: Bonobo

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides extensive information about the bonobo, including the differences between bonobos and chimpanzees. A video and photos are also provided.
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Website
American Academy of Achievement

Academy of Achievement: Dame Jane Goodall

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography of Jane Goodall, renowned worldwide for her work with the chimpanzees of Tanzania. Includes a profile, videos, and a photo gallery.
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Article
BBC

Bbc Newsround: Week of 4 25 16: Study Reveals Ravens as Clever as Chimps

For Students 1st - 5th
Article reports on recent animal intelligence research that has found ravens to be as smart as chimpanzees, despite having much smaller brains.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Chimps R Us: Understanding Travel Routes

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Examine a map of the travel routes and evening nesting sites of two chimpanzees and create a travel route of your typical day. Describe the social enhancements that helped humans to evolve from foraging behavior to establish fixed...
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My Hero Project

My Hero: Jane Goodall

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about Jane Goodall's work with chimpanzees, which makes her a hero to animals and people. This resource includes quotes, images and links to further information on Goodall, the "Earthkeeper hero."
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University of Missouri

Famous Trials: Animal Rights on Trial

For Students 9th - 10th
Animal Rights on Trial (2013-2020). In this case, a petition filed by the Nonhuman Rights Project on behalf of Tommy, a chimpanzee living out his old age ten miles away in what the document described horribly. The Nonhuman Rights Project...
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Website
PBS

Pbs News Hour Extra: Scientists Discover Oldest Human Ancestor

For Students 9th - 10th
Scientists have recently published their research into fossil bones from Ethiopia that they say came from an ancestor common to both humans and chimpanzees. They have named the ancestor Ardipithecus ramidus. In the articles and video,...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Good Chimp

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about chimpanzees and their ability to cooperate with each other. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Humans and Primates

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The great apes are the members of the biological family Hominidae, which includes four living genera: chimpanzees, gorillas, humans, and orangutans. Learn more about...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Digging for Fossils: Studying Fossils as Evidence for Human Evolution

For Teachers 9th - 10th
As students dig for paper fossils, they make observations of brain size, teeth, hands, thumbs, trunks, pelvis, foot and big toes to determine characteristics of chimpanzees and humans. Then, they dig up and analyze a new fossil...
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Chimps R Us: Speaking Chimp

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Explore the vocabulary and vocalizations in chimpanzee communications and connect them to emotions. Develop and participate in a field study of animal behavior based on observations and interactions with dogs
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian National Zoo: Zoogoer Magazine: Easy as 1,2,3

For Students 9th - 10th
Rob Shumaker's article in Zoogoer Magazine focuses on a variety of primates, from orangutans to chimpanzees, and their responses to tests and procedures including the Boysens tests.
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Article
Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Jane Goodall

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the accomplishments of Jane Goodall in studying the behavior of chimpanzees in this article.
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Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Jane Goodall

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography of Jane Goodall can be found on this site. Learn about her life and work with the chimpanzees.
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Article
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Chimp Dna Sheds Light on Humanity

For Students 9th - 10th
From ABC News in Science, Richard Ingham's article sheds light on scientific research comparing and contrasting the DNA of Chimpanzees with the DNA of humans.
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Other

Jane Goodall Photo Gallery

For Students 1st - 9th
Twenty one high quality downloadable images of Jane Goodall and chimpanzees can be found on this page. A short description is given of each image as well as links to many more good photographs.
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Website
Ducksters

Ducksters: Biography for Kids: Scientist: Jane Goodall

For Students 9th - 10th
This webpage has Jane Goodall's biography on it. Learn how she was a scientist who studied chimpanzees in the wild for many years discovering that they used tools and ate meat.
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Article
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Chimps Have the Jump on Us in Evolution

For Students 9th - 10th
From ABC News in Science, Larry O'Hanlon's article explores a comparison of genes between chimps and humans which suggests a larger evolutionary jump on the part of the chimps in the span of 6 million years.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Neanderthals, Orangutans, Lemurs & You; A Primate Reunion

For Students 9th - 10th
You have probably seen figures showing how human beings are related to chimpanzees, gorillas, and other primates. In this genomics science fair project, you will use bioinformatics tools to generate your own primate family tree.
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Website
University of California

Uc Berkeley: Ethiopian Fossils From 6 Million Year Old Hominid

For Students 9th - 10th
In this article from 2004, UC Berkeley reports that additional fossils have been found from the 2001 discovery of Ardipithecus kadabba. This find holds great importance because it is suggested that it may represent the first species...
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Other

University of Texas at Austin: E Lucy: Compare Lucy

For Students 9th - 10th
Lucy was an early hominin known as Australopithecus afarensis. Compare Lucy's bones to that of a chimpanzee or a modern human.
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eSkeletons

E Skeletons Project

For Students 9th - 10th
Funded by the National Science Foundation, the eSkeletons Project provides interactive views of bones. Various menus allow you to review the bones of the human skeleton and compare them to the bone structures of nine primates.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Molecular Evidence for Evolution

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Chimpanzees and humans turn out to be very similar - if you look at their DNA. When scientists determined the entire genetic code of both humans and chimpanzees,...

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