A guide for using our resources

Children will study the accomplishments and findings of scientist Jane Goodall.

Vocabulary: trust

Social Studies Focus: Women’s History Month

Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.

• Pair this text with the issue to expand children’s knowledge about the life of Jane Goodall.

• At snack time, invite kids to eat chimp food! Chimps have a lot of fruit in their diet: They eat bananas, mangoes, figs, watermelon, and apples!
• Get as many of these fruits as you can, slice them up, and mix to make a chimp fruit salad!

• Use pages 2-3 of the issue to do this scavenger hunt as a group.
  
  1. Find the heading. Underline it.
  
  2. Find the picture where David Greybeard is taking a banana from Jane.. Underline it.
  
  3. In the pink box, find a tool that helped Jane see the chimps from far away. (binoculars) Put a ✔ on it.
  
  4. Look at the sidebar. How do you think David Greybeard got his name? Circle them.

Skill: observation and recording

Materials: Observe an Animal skill sheet, computer, pencils, crayons

• Observe animals at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo—virtually! Pass out the skill sheets. Then visit https://nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams and choose an animal to observe for a few minutes.
• Have kids write and draw to complete the skill sheet with their observations. They can write the name of the animal, describe what it was doing, and draw a picture.
• You can have different groups of children observe different animals, or have kids do the activity a few times, choosing a different animal each time!