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Video clips of interviews with Jane Goodall illustrate what an inspirational, charming, and persistent woman she was, giving students someone to look up to.
Students will love the clips of Goodall with the chimpanzees.
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It may benefit students to have background knowledge on animal rights issues and environmental issues.
Differentiation & Implementation
Students can create a timeline of Jane Goodall's work and accomplishments, noting the influence each had on the rest of the world.
Highlighting Goodall's work in animal rights, teachers can connect this resource to Sustainable Development Goal 15, Life on Land.
Teachers can use this video to introduce the challenges Goodall faced when trying to break into the male-dominated field of science.
Teachers can also use this to introduce the concept of anthropocentrism and highlight how Goodall's work challenged this commonly held bias, showing for the first time that animals can do things and express things that were thought only to be human skills or characteristics.
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