Lesson video

Hello everybody.

My name is Ms. Simkin.

What's your name? I'm really excited that I get to be your science teacher today.

And in today's lesson, we're going to be learning about one of my favourite extraordinary scientists.

This is actually a scientist that I learned about when I was your age, when I was really small and it was learning about this scientist's story that inspired me to work really hard at science in school and to be a scientist when I was older.

So today we're going to learn about Jane Goodall who is my favourite scientist.

In today's lesson we are going to need these things, a piece of paper, a pencil, and some colouring pencils or pens.

We'll need those for the end of the lesson.

So if you don't have those things, could you pause the video and go and get them now please? Fantastic, let me tell you what we're going to do in today's lesson.

We are going to start with our star words our key vocabulary.

Then we're going to learn about Jane Goodall's story.

We're going to have a go at recording behaviour.

I'll explain more about that when we get there.

Then we're going to look at conservation which is all about saving animals.

And then at the end of the lesson, you can take the end of lesson quiz to see how much you've learned.

Here are star words for the lesson.

So this is our key vocabulary.

I'm going to say the word.

And then when I point at the screen, you're going to say the word.

Chimpanzee Chimpanzee Great, chimpanzee is a type of animal that looks like this.

You might have seen them on TV or in a zoo or maybe in the wild if you're really lucky before.

Our next word is conservation.

Conservation.

Good job.

Conservation is all about saving things.

And we're going to learn about the conservation of animals in this lesson.

So how our scientist Jane Goodall has worked to save animals.

Tanzania.

Tanzania.

Good job.

Tanzania has a capital letter.

So we've already got a clue that it must be a proper noun.

Tanzania is a country in the continent of Africa and I'll show you where that is on a map in the lesson.

Tools.

Tools are a device or a thing that we use to do a particular job.

So for example, a hammer is a type of tool.

And the job that a hammer does is it hits on nails or a toothbrush is a type of tool.

What's the job of a toothbrush? Say it to your screen.

To clean your teeth, exactly.

And our last star word today is expert.

Good job, an expert is somebody who knows lots and lots and lots about a topic.

So for example, if you were a doctor you would be an expert on the human body and how it works.

And by the end of today's lesson you're all going to be experts on Jane Goodall.

Let's start by learning about Jane Goodall's story.

So this is a picture of Jane Goodall.

She's obviously old in this picture but our story begins when Jane Goodall was a young girl.

So she was born in England and from a young age she loved animals and as one of her first ever birthday presents her father bought her a toy chimpanzee and she loved this chimpanzee.

And that love of animals and in particular chimpanzees stayed with her throughout all of her life.

And when she finished school she decided to do something really brave.

She decided to go on an adventure and start a new life very far away from where she lived.

She saved up her money for a long, long time and eventually managed to save enough money to take a very long boat trip from England where she lived all the way to the continent of Africa.

This was a very brave thing to do because she was very young at the time.

She was very young to leave home.

It was a very long trip and the country where she eventually ended up in the continent of Africa, Tanzania which is that little red country you can see on the screen, wasn't very safe at the time when she travelled there and it especially, wasn't very safe for a woman, young woman travelling alone.

And at that time not many young women did take big adventures like that and were brave enough to go to a country where they might have been unsafe.

But Jane Goodall was brave.

And the reason that she's wanted to go to Africa so badly is because it's in Africa, in different countries around Tanzania, where chimpanzees can be found in their natural habitat.

And Jane Goodall was lucky that when she arrived in Africa she became the research assistant of a scientist who was studying chimpanzees.

And so she got to go with him to Tanzania and to help him with his research.

That is where Jane Goodall stayed and worked for over 50 years.

So she dedicated her whole life to researching chimpanzees.

And she's now a world expert.

She is the person in the world who knows the most about chimpanzees.

She is very impressive.

So let's have a quick reminder.

How many years has Jane Goodall studied chimpanzees? Can you remember? It's over how many years? Say it to your screen.

Over 50 years, good job.

What was the toy that her father bought her when she was a child? A chimpanzee, exactly.

You've got a great memory.

Okay and then here's the tricky one.

What was the name of the country that she eventually settled in in Africa? Can you remember? Begins with a T, T-A-T-A Tanzania Good job, let's practise saying that together.

Tanzania.

Tanzania.

Brilliant.

So Jane Goodall eventually, actually started her own research centre called the Gombe Stream Research Centre? Let's practise saying that.

Gombe Stream Research Centre.

Your turn.

Good job.

And while she was at this research centre, she learned lots of things about chimpanzees.

She learned the types of food they eat, the way that they behave in different scenarios.

She learned a lot about that family dynamics and how chimpanzee families and groups work.

And she also made a really important discovery.

She learned that chimpanzees could make and use their own tools.

This was such a revelation, such a new idea because before Jane Goodall discovered this, the scientific community or the scientists and the people in the world thought that only humans were clever enough to make their own tools.

But Jane Goodall who studied chimpanzees and watched them really closely saw them making their own tools.

She saw the making tools that they could dig into anthills to get out ants and lick them like a lollipop and she saw the making tools for other things as well.

Okay, let's see how well you can remember Jane Goodall's story.

I've put a word bank at the top for you.

So these are the words that you're going to use to fill in the gaps in a moment.

So expert, Tanzania, research centre, chimpanzees and tools.

Can you use each of those words once to fill in the gaps below please.

Let's start with one sentence at a time Jane Goodall travelled to.

to study.

Can you use your pencil and write this sentence on your piece of paper, filling in the gaps.

Pause the video to give yourself some time.

Great, here's the next sentence She is now the world.

and started her own.

Can you fill in those gaps? Pause the video and write this sentence for me.

Great job, okay, one more.

She discovered that chimpanzees can make their own.

Pause the video and write this sentence filling in the gap.

Great job, let's check your answers.

So if you have a different coloured pencil you can tick if you got the answer right.

And if you made a mistake that's okay.

Mistakes help our brain grow.

You can just use your different coloured pencil to write the correct answer.

So, Jane Goodall travelled to Tanzania to study chimpanzees.

Well done if you got that correct.

She is now the world expert and started her own research centre.

Tick if you got it correct.

And last one, she discovered that chimpanzees can make that own tools.

That was the word you needed to fill in.

Give yourself a tick if you got that correct.

Well done, you're working really hard.

So now we've learned about Jane Goodall's story and how she became this world expert in chimpanzees.

We're going to learn a little bit more about how she learned so much about chimpanzees.

We're going to learn about how she recorded their behaviour.

So behaviour is the way that you act.

So a way that a human acts are a way that an animal acts.

We describe that as their behaviour.

She used something called an ethogram.

My turn, ethogram.

An ethogram is something that scientists use when they're studying animals and it's essentially just a long list of all the things that they are doing.

So if I was Jane Goodall, I would sit up for hours and days at a time in the forest with my clipboard and my pen or my pencil.

And I would write an ethogram.

That's a long list of all the different behaviours, that I saw chimpanzees doing.

So it might look something like this.

So we'd have the times so I'd watch one chimpanzee and I'd write sleeping.

And then two minutes later looking for food and then a bit later I could see it drinking water and I'd write that down.

And then a bit later I'd see eating fruit and I'd write that down.

And the reason that scientists like Jane Goodall do this and they make such careful notes is because that means over a really long time, over years, they can look at all their notes and see if they can find patterns.

And those patterns might help them answer questions.

So we are going to have a go at writing our own ethograms. Our own records of chimpanzees behaviour.

Unfortunately, I don't have any real chimpanzees to bring to this lesson but I do have some photos.

So those will have to do.

Here's an example of what I would like you to do.

I'm going to show you a time.

So you're going to write that time down on your piece of paper.

And then I'm going to show you a picture of a chimpanzee.

And next to that time, you're going to write down what you think the chimpanzee is doing.

So for example, for this one I might write 8:05 which is the time in green and then a little dash and what I think the chimpanzee is doing.

I think the chimpanzee in this picture is grooming another chimpanzee.

My turn, grooming.

Grooming is something that chimpanzees and other apes and monkeys do which is where they lick or they pick the other chimpanzees skin and their hair to keep it clean.

So if you have a pet cat, you might see your pet cat grooming itself sometimes licking it's fur.

Okay, and that's what the chimpanzees are doing here except they do it to each other not just to themselves.

So they might lick their friends.

I know that sounds a bit weird 'cause you probably wouldn't want your friend to lick you in the classroom.

I definitely wouldn't.

But with chimpanzees it's actually a sign of friendship and it's something that they do to create bonds and to make each other feel closer to each other.

So this chimpanzee is probably enjoying being licked by that chimpanzee.

And we call it grooming.

What do we call it? Grooming, great, okay? And then you're going to write down your other times and what you think the chimpanzee is doing next to each of those.

Okay, you ready, have you got your pencil and paper ready to record this behaviour? Brilliant.

So here's your first time 8:27.

And your first picture of a chimpanzee.

Can you write the time and record what do you think the chimpanzee is doing? Off you go.

Brilliant, you might have written something like lying down or sunbathing maybe or relaxing.

You don't think he's sleeping because his eyes are open.

Well done if you wrote something similar to that we might all have slightly different answers, that's okay.

Ready for the next one? Okay, so this time is 8:34.

You can write that just underneath your last time.

And here is the picture.

What do you think this chimpanzee is doing? Look closely.

See what you can spot.

I'm giving you a clue.

Okay and write down what the chimpanzee is doing.

If you need some more time you can pause the video.

Great, so you might have written that this chimpanzee is sitting or sitting and eating.

I think that's probably the key thing.

I can see it's got something that looks like orange in its mouth.

You might even have written eating fruit or eating an orange.

Good job.

Okay, we've got two more.

Here are your next two.

So you can see something's happening at 8:45 and something's happening at 8:58.

What's happening in each of these pictures.

If you're stuck on 8:45 think back to my example there's a word that you could use that begins with G-R Pause the video and record the behaviour now.

Brilliant, so for 8:45 you might have written something like grooming because in this picture it looks like this chimpanzee is grooming another chimpanzee or maybe you write scratching or poking or playing with.

And for the next time 8:55 you might have written riding on on another chimpanzees back or carrying another chimpanzee.

Good job for all of your hard work.

Now we're going to learn about another part of Jane Goodall's work.

So we've already learned that she recorded the behaviour of chimpanzees by studying them carefully for years and years and years.

And she learned lots of important things about them.

But later on in her life her work has focused less on learning about chimpanzees and more about protecting them, conserving them.

And that's because chimpanzees are now an endangered species.

My turn, endangered.

Endangered means that in danger.

It means that there's not very many of them left in the wild because they're being killed or dying.

Now two main reasons for this.

The first is because they're hunted by humans for bushmeat.

That means humans are hunting them to eat them.

And the second reason is habitat loss.

My turn, habitat loss.

A habitat is the natural home of an organism.

So if their habitat is not being lost, being destroyed that means their homes are being destroyed.

And this is happening by humans again.

So humans are cutting down that habitat to make way for different things.

Their own buildings or farm land.

And that means the chimpanzees don't have enough space to live and they don't have enough food to eat, okay? And it's causing their numbers to decrease.

So it was very sad.

Before I change the slide Can you just try and stick in your head What the two main reasons were.

So hunting for bushmeat and habitat loss.

Say it one time with me, for bushmeat, habitat loss, good.

Okay, now, can you close your eyes and try and say them just so you can't see so you can remember.

What are the two reasons? Good job, hunting for bushmeat and habitat loss.

So Jane Goodall is trying to conserve these species and that means she's trying to save them.

So she started her own foundation it's called the Jane Goodall Foundation and it raises money for the chimpanzees.

And it means she can do things like educate people and teach them not to hunt the chimpanzees.

And also it means she can protect their land so she can buy the land where the chimpanzees live to stop other people from ruining their habitats.

We're going to have a go at doing a little bit of conservation work ourselves because one of the main ways to conserve species is to teach people about them.

And so we are going to make a poster.

We are going to make a 'save the chimps'.

Chimps is short for chimpanzee poster so that we can educate people about chimpanzees and about why it's important to save them, okay? So I'm going to show you an example of how I would set out my poster.

There are three main things I want you remember successful posters always have a title.

They have pictures because it's better to explain and catch people's attention with pictures.

And they have bright colours to make them eye catching and memorable.

So pictures, title and bright colours.

Before you start your poster you might want to get yourself a new piece of paper.

So blank piece of paper would be best but if you only have line paper that's fine too.

Pause the video if you need to go and get that now.

Great, before you start your poster I'm just going to give you some tips.

So I'm going to show you how I would set my poster up.

So the first thing I would do is I work at the top of my page, write my poster heading or title, which is 'Save The Chimps' or save the chimpanzees.

And I'm going to use a different colour.

In fact, I'm going to use a bright colour to write that in.

And I'm going to write in capital letters, Save The Chimpanzees.

You can use any colour you want.

You can use different writing if you want.

You could use bubble writing.

You could make a pattern as long as your title is nice and eye catching.

Pause the video now and write the title of your poster.

Great, then I'm going to leave this space here to draw a picture.

So in a moment, you might want to draw a picture here of a chimpanzee or maybe Jane Goodall with a chimpanzee but we need to put some information on our poster as well.

So I'm going to do that at the bottom of my poster here.

So leaving space in the middle for my picture and at the bottom of my poster I'm going to write some information.

I'm going to choose a different colour and I'm going to do some bullet points of information.

So I'm going to write chimpanzees are endangered.

Okay and then I'm going to write what some of the threats are.

I'm going to say stop hunting for bushmeat.

The other thing that was threatening chimpanzees what else do we want to stop? Say it to your screen.

Great, 'stop destroying their ha-ha-ha.

What's the name of a place where an animal lives? Their H-A-H-A-H-A.

Say it to your screen.

Their habitat.

Brilliant, can you add some information to the bottom of your poster too? You can write the same information I have or if you know some facts about chimpanzees or you want to do some extra research you can do that and write your own information here.

You can also use a different colour pause the video and do that for me now please.

Great, So your poster should look something like this so far.

You can now pause the video and complete your poster.

So remember to include a picture and you can also decorate it with eye catching colours.

Pause the video and do that for me now please.

Good job.

That brings us to the end of our lesson.

I hope you have enjoyed learning about Jane Goodall and I hope that you are proud of the poster that you have made.

If you would like to share your work with Oak National then you can ask your parent to post it on Twitter with the hashtag, #LearnwithOak.

And if you'd like me to see it then you can also tag at @Teach_STEMinism.

I would love to see your work.

Have a fantastic rest of your day.

And I hope I see you back here soon for another science lesson.

Bye everybody, well done.