Essential Questions
1. Has there been evidence of behavioral changes in animals such as chimps over the last 25 years? If so, why do you believe this might have happened?
2. How do animals adapt to changes in the environment and human interference in their food chains?

• Lessons for Hope...lesson plans translating values into actions
  from the Jane Goodall Institute
  
• Unit One...Roots, Shoots and Mentors
• Unit Two...Observer, Pioneer and Expert
  
  

• Opposable Thumb...Windstar EARTHcamp Curriculum
  Objective: Opposable means that you can cross your palm with your thumb. Chimpanzees have an opposable thumb just as we do...allowing us to manipulate our environment in ways that other animals can not.
  Materials: masking tape, journals, scissors, paper clips, wrapped candy, pencils, paper
  Activity: Tape the kids thumbs down onto their palms (both hands). Then ask them to:
  Pick up a piece of paper
  Write their name with a pencil on the paper
  Cut a circle out of the paper
  Tie their shoes
  Unwrap and eat a piece of candy
  Turn the page of a book
  Follow-up: When they have had a chance to get to all the tasks, regroup and ask them the following questions: How did you have to change your approach to the task to accomplish it without your thumbs? How many things in our culture would be different if we didn't have opposable thumbs?

• "Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzee"...
  14 activities designed around the film.
  
  
• Extinctless Animals...Windstar EARTHcamp curriculum
  Objective: to consider the effect that habitat has on extinction.
  Materials: blank paper, crayons, markers, etc.
  Activity: Their task is to create an animal that would be resistant to extinction. Have a short discussion about what leads to extinction and then let them brainstorm ideas that might save living things from such a fate. Give them time to draw their newly created animal, giving it a name and habitat. Let them share their designs...and their ideas!!!
  Follow-up: Ask "Why is it important to preserve environments, just as they exist in nature....without interference from humans?
  
  
• What Must a Species Have?...Access Excellence
  
  
• Can Chimps Talk?...PBS
  
  
• Working to Save the Endangered Species...Science NetLinks
  
  
• Zoo Debate / Design an Exhibit...Windstar EARTHcamp curriculum
  Zoo Debate
  Objectives: to raise awareness of pros and cons of preservation accomplished through captivity
  Materials: paper, pencils
  Activity: Ask for a show of hands of who has ever been to a zoo. Ask if anyone has thoughts on the appropriateness of zoological gardens...for the animals? For the visitors? Who likes going to the zoo? According to these answers, break the campers into 2 groups and ask them to debate whether zoos are the best answer to animal preservation. What is good? What can be improved? Have each group take turns presenting an idea. Act as moderator and keep the debate on the constructive side.
  Design an Exhibit
  Objective: bring to light the elements that go into Animal Exhibit designs
  Materials: journal page, drawing paper, chalk, pencils, scraps of paper
  Activity: Ask the students to write their name and favorite animal on the small scraps of paper. Collect those and as you read them out loud, form groups according to animals that could share appropriate habitat exhibits. Get the groups together, hand out paper and chalk and ask them to now design an exhibit much like you would see in a wildlife park or zoological garden. Remind them of all the issues that had just been discuss in the Zoo debate. They need to, of course, keep the survival needs of the animals into consideration but also how to introduce human visitors to the exhibit, safeguard the animals from visitors and each other. Give them plenty of time to collaborate and draw their exhibit.
  
  
• Disappearing Frogs...CNN

Additional Educator Resources

Books
Reason for Hope
     Jane Goodall with
     Phillip Berman

The Ten Trusts
     Jane Goodall and
     Marc Bekoff

In the Shadow of Man
    Jane Goodall

Videos
Chimps: So Like Us

PBS Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees

Videotape Collection...
K - 12 from the National Primate Research Center

NOVA: Can Chimps Talk?


Websites
Next of Kin...a compassionate science curriculum from the New England Anti-Vivisection Society

Chimpanzee Fact Sheet..Defenders of Wildlife

Save the Chimps.org.. creating a sanctuary for rescued chimps

Discover Chimpanzees ...Center  for Primate Studies

Conservation...
Education Index

ReleaseChimps.org

Wild Chimpanzees..
film resources

Primate Info Net..Wisconsin's National Primate Research Center

Current News
Ape Actors ...
National Geographic.com

Study: Chimps Belong in the Human Genus ...
Discovery Zone

Pan Africa News

Journal Topic
Many animals, birds, and insects are finding their way into "unwanted" territory such as city streets, parking lots, and even homes. What can we do to protect their right to live as they are being forced into smaller and smaller natural habitats?

Read the lyrics to John Denver's "I Want to Live" and comment on his possible view of human and animal rights.

Student Self-Evaluation

1. This speaker emphasized…
2. One fact that surprised me was…
3. I will always remember…
4. The important message I would like to pass on is…

Teacher Evaluation

1. The student used the journal question as a reflection after the program.
2. The student was able to answer the self-evaluation questions.
3. The student created an extinctless animal with an explanation of how that animal will survive in our present and future     world. The explanation will include information about that animal's interdependence with other organisms.
4. The student presented facts about zoos, during the Zoo Debate, which were found through research. For every fact     stated as part of the argument, there was a source stated such as a web address, encyclopedia or journal.