Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: S Ic.2 Sarah, the Chimpanzee
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...
San Diego Zoo Global
San Diego Zoo: Bonobo
This resource provides extensive information about the bonobo, including the differences between bonobos and chimpanzees. A video and photos are also provided.
American Academy of Achievement
Academy of Achievement: Dame Jane Goodall
A biography of Jane Goodall, renowned worldwide for her work with the chimpanzees of Tanzania. Includes a profile, videos, and a photo gallery.
BBC
Bbc Newsround: Week of 4 25 16: Study Reveals Ravens as Clever as Chimps
Article reports on recent animal intelligence research that has found ravens to be as smart as chimpanzees, despite having much smaller brains.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Chimps R Us: Understanding Travel Routes
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...
My Hero Project
My Hero: Jane Goodall
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."
University of Missouri
Famous Trials: Animal Rights on Trial
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...
PBS
Pbs News Hour Extra: Scientists Discover Oldest Human Ancestor
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,...
Read Works
Read Works: Good Chimp
[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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Humans and Primates
[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...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Digging for Fossils: Studying Fossils as Evidence for Human Evolution
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...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Chimps R Us: Speaking Chimp
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
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian National Zoo: Zoogoer Magazine: Easy as 1,2,3
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.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Jane Goodall
Learn about the accomplishments of Jane Goodall in studying the behavior of chimpanzees in this article.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Jane Goodall
A biography of Jane Goodall can be found on this site. Learn about her life and work with the chimpanzees.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Chimp Dna Sheds Light on Humanity
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.
Other
Jane Goodall Photo Gallery
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.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biography for Kids: Scientist: Jane Goodall
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.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Chimps Have the Jump on Us in Evolution
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.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Neanderthals, Orangutans, Lemurs & You; A Primate Reunion
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.
University of California
Uc Berkeley: Ethiopian Fossils From 6 Million Year Old Hominid
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...
Other
University of Texas at Austin: E Lucy: Compare Lucy
Lucy was an early hominin known as Australopithecus afarensis. Compare Lucy's bones to that of a chimpanzee or a modern human.
eSkeletons
E Skeletons Project
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Molecular Evidence for Evolution
[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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