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Skeletons Reveal Human and Chimpanzee Evolution
Ardipithecus ramidus shares features with both humans and chimpanzees. Learn about where Ardi, humans, and chimps fit in the tree of life by comparing anatomical features including the foot, pelvis, and teeth. After exploring those...
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Chimpanzees: We're Not Entertained
Students explore multiple perspectives to create a talk show that examines the issues facing chimpanzees. They analyze the gray areas of controversial issues to realize that there can be a wide range of possible positions on a given issue.
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Jane Goodall, Renowned Naturalist and Champion of Chimpanzees
Students study the life of Jane Goodall and how she made an impact studying chimpanzees. In this endangered species lesson students write in their journals.
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Chimpanzee Information and Coloring Page
In this animal information and coloring page, students read a short paragraph of facts about chimpanzees before coloring the animal in its habitat.
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Sarah, the chimpanzee
Is Sarah, the chimpanzee, smart or just a lucky guesser? Here, learners set up a simulation and read a dotplot to find out the likelihood of getting 7 out of 8 questions correct. One suggested modification would be to have your class...
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Sarah the Chimpanzee
Is Sarah the Chimpanzee simply a good guesser or does she really know how to solve problems? The five questions posed here help your statisticians form a hypothesis, design a simulation model for the situation, gather and analyze data,...
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Displaying Chimps
A male chimpanzee's way of wearing a nice tuxedo and showing off to other chimps is called displaying. Displaying is a chimp's way to prove their status amongst others. Can your class compare this act to other mammals?
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Chimpanzee picture
In this chimpanzee learning exercise, students color a picture of a chimpanzee and trace and write the word "chimpanzee". Students color, trace, and write the words 1 time each.
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Jane Goodall’s Wild Chimpanzees
For this "Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees" worksheet, students respond to 25 short answer questions regarding Jane Goodall and her work.
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Living with the Chimpanzees
Students participate in a guided reading lesson plan with the teacher. In this guided reading lesson plan, students read Jane Goodall: Living with the Chimpanzees. Students increase their literacy and practice reading strategies.
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CHIMPANZEE
In this coloring worksheet, two line drawings of chimpanzees are given. It is assumed that the illustrations are to be colored in or cut and pasted.
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Human Evolution
As the great and hilarious Tim Minchin once said, "Science is simply the word we use to describe a method of organizing our curiosity." Science is more than just a guess; it is based on questions, observations, and evidence. High...
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Comparing Fossils
Learners explore early hominid evolution as they analyze bones that share characteristics of both apes and humans. Students compare and contrast key skeletal differences between chimpanzees and humans. In groups, they sort and group a...
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Genetics 101 Part 1: What Are Genes?
Do you know how many chromosomes humans have? Do you know how many of those chromosomes we share with the chimpanzee? A perfect introduction to DNA for your middle schoolers, this video uses a ton of visuals to clearly illustrate the...
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Do Animals Mourn Their Dead?
Dolphin mothers whose babies have died have been photographed in the wild, holding their young above the water and staying with them for days in what scientists believe is a period of mourning. Viewers explore grief and the mourning...
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Jane Goodall
Students identify Jane Goodall as a scientist who studies the behavior of chimpanzees. They listen to a biography of Jane Goodall and review the location of Africa. Then students participate in an animal observation activity.
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Skeleton Scramble Puzzle: Suborder Prosimians
Explore the finer details of primate skulls with these puzzles, incorporating advanced scientific analysis of two suborders- Prosimians and Anthropoidea- and one superfamily- Hominoidea. Learners read about the unique characteristics of...
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Human Evolution: Crash Course Big History #6
Humans did not evolve from monkeys or chimpanzees—so what does our evolution look like? A video explains the evolution of humans from a common ancestor to homo sapiens. It describes the many branches on our family tree as well as the...
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Chimpanzee and Banana Five and Six
In this counting and printing practice worksheet, students trace the numbers 5 and 6, solve 4 counting problems, and draw the appropriate number of bananas in 6 questions.
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Comparison of Human and Chimpanzee Chromosomes
Students actively engage in the careful analysis of chromosome banding patterns and identify examples of inversion in homologous chromosomes.
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Elementary Reading: Five Passages with Questions
Five brief readings with questions support practice with various literacy skills. In some cases, learners identify whether underlined words are spelled correctly. Other times, they answer reading comprehension questions about the text or...
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Men More Evolved?
In a recent study of chimpanzee and human genomes, it was discovered that the X chromosomes are nearly identical, but the Y chromosomes are vastly different. These findings have led some to say that men are more evolved, but what do the...
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Comparing Chimp mtDNA to Learn about Races
In this computer-based instructional activity, students will measure genetic diversity within and between three subspecies of chimpanzees in order to gain a better understanding of genetic distinctiveness and explore race as a genetic...
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Studying Fossils
Students compare and contrast key skeletal differences between chimpanzees and humans: brain size, teeth, hand and thumb, trunk, pelvis, lower limb, foot and big toe. They then sort and group a set of mixed "fossil bones" of chimpanzee...