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Unit Plan
Department of Defense

Do Dea: Ap Us History: Unit 6: Becoming a Modern Nation

For Students 9th - 10th
This extensive learning module examines the role of large-scale industrialization, urbanization, and mass migrations in creating new demands on government and social organizations to design reforms, and looks at the global and domestic...
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Handout
San Diego Zoo Global

San Diego Zoo: Mandrill

For Students 1st - 9th
This excellent resource from the San Diego Zoo presents extensive information on mandrills including details about their habitat, physical characteristics, size, diet, family life, conservation status, and fun facts.
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Handout
San Diego Zoo Global

San Diego Zoo: Mangabey

For Students 9th - 10th
This excellent resource from the San Diego Zoo presents extensive information on mangabeys including details about their habitat, physical characteristics, size, diet, family life, conservation status, and fun facts.
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Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: 7 Days of the Week

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Seven Days of the Week is fun slider puzzle for children to practice putting days in order. The goal is to put the days in order and to help the monkeys get the banana. Slide pieces up and down and each time a day is placed in the...
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Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Number Grid Fireworks

For Students K - 1st
This educational activity helps kids to develop an understanding of patterns and number relationships by utilizing a number grid. Each horizontal row represents a tens digit. As you move from top to bottom, the tens digit increases by...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Constructing a Projectile Launcher and Free Falling Target

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Implement the classic physics demonstration "the monkey and the hunter" using this description of a projectile launcher and a target that begins to fall at the same time the projectile is launched. The completed project is a spectacular...
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Activity
Other

Lil' Fingers: Who's at the Zoo? Learn the English Words for Animals

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Young readers and beginning English language learners will enjoy this short animated story about zoo animals. See wonderful pictures matched to the words for lions, polar bears, giraffes, monkeys, elephants, and more.
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Article
Frontiers Media

Frontiers: Human Toolmaker

For Students 3rd - 8th
Do you enjoy building airplanes, cars, houses, or robots with Lego blocks? Humans are the only animal species that can create complicated constructions from simple Lego blocks - our Lego building ability is "human-specific," since it is...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Who/what/when/where: Mall Theme

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, Eileen Christelow's picture book, Five Little Monkeys Go Shopping, is used as the mentor text for its use of adverbial phrases. After several exposures to the mentor text, students will use click the buttons with the...
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Activity
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

Story Place: Count the Bananas

For Students K - 1st Standards
Select the correct number of food items that the monkey eats.
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Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: 12 Months of the Year

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This learning game is a fun slider puzzle for children to practice putting months in order. Slide pieces up and down and each time a month is placed in the correct spot and the monkeys will get closer to the banana!
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Interactive
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

Cuenta Los Platanos

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In Spanish. A fun and interactive counting activity. Children pick what the monkey should eat, and then count how many he eats. The main page offers lots of activities for preschoolers.
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Vectors and Projectiles: Gravity Free Environment

For Students 9th - 10th
Students can launch a banana as a projectile at a monkey in a gravity-free environment.
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eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Vectors and Projectiles: Throw With Gravity On

For Students 9th - 10th
Students can visualize a zookeeper shooting a banana from a banana cannon to a monkey who hangs from the limb of a tree in normal gravity.
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Website
Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum: Fossil Folklore

For Students 9th - 10th
Under the expansive online exhibit from the Natural History Museum on fossils, this site examines a series of myths associated with fossils including topics on monkeys, snakes, serpents, monsters, and more.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Circus Stories: Wonders of the Circus by Mc Loughlin Bros.

For Students K - 1st
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Circus Stories: Wonders of the Circus by McLoughlin Bros. (1883), a picture book of poems having to do with the men, monkeys, and dogs of the circus.
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eBook
Other

Sur La Lune Fairy Tales: Japanese Fairy Tales

For Students 9th - 10th
Online version of the book, "Japanese Fairy Tales," first published in 1908. It includes 20 or so tales translated from Japanese into English including the following: "My Lord Bag of Rice," "The Farmer and the Badger," "The Adventures of...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Jatakas: The Many Lives of Buddha as Bodhisattva

For Students 9th - 10th
Jatakas reached the laity and monks through art, which proved to be a powerful tool in communicating Buddhist tenets and philosophy to a wide public. View examples of their art and read about their famous tales including the Great Monkey...
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Curious George: High Five

For Students Pre-K - K
Use this game resource to help children make some great art with George. Monkey-hand painting: what better way to learn how to count by fives!
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Handout
University of Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin: Drill (Mandrillus)

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive discussion on the taxonomy, morphology, range, habitat, and ecology of the Drill in this detailed factsheet that includes an extensive glossary of terms.
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Handout
University of Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin: Gray Langur

For Students 9th - 10th
Comprehensive discussion on the taxonomy, morphology, range, habitat, and ecology of the Gray Langur in this detailed factsheet that includes an extensive glossary of terms.
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Website
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian National Zoo

For Students 9th - 10th
Here is the National Zoological Park right at our fingertips. Students will find many things to explore at this colorful and engaging site. Any study of animals will have a successful start here. Chances are students can catch their...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: How Animals Care for Their Young

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
For this interactive lesson, students learn that animals take care of their young in many of the same ways the adults in their lives take care of them. Students watch videos from NATURE and engage in a variety of activities to check...
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Handout
Oakland Zoo

Oakland Zoo: Hamadryas Baboon

For Students 9th - 10th
Meet the hamadryas baboon and discover fascinating facts and statistics. Learn about its physical characteristics, habitat, diet, behavior, breeding patterns, conservation, and more.

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