Educator's Guide

Me...Jane educator’s guide About the book I Wonder questions and write them on index cards. In addition, One of the things Jane wondered about was where give each student six blank index cards and ask them In his characteristic heartwarming style, Patrick McDonnell eggs come from. Ask students to share something they to write physical activities on them that chimpanzees tells the story of the young Jane Goodall and her special Me...Jane wonder about. Give each student an index card with or other primates might perform. After students have childhood toy chimpanzee named Jubilee. As the young Jane the sentence starter “I wonder…” on it. Ask students brainstormed and written six activities, have them observes the natural world around her with wonder, she dreams to write something they wonder about. Then, have shuffle the activity cards and place them face down of “a life living with and helping all animals,” until one day she By Patrick McDonnell students research the answers to their questions. This to create six different piles (one card in each pile). finds that her dream has come true. could be done as a year-long class project. Every week Then, divide the trivia questions evenly and place One of the world’s most inspiring women, Dr. Jane Goodall Me...Jane a new “I wonder” card is drawn and the class works them face down over the activity cards. Using a die, is a renowned humanitarian, conservationist, animal activist, together to research the answer. As an alternative, students take turns answering the questions from the 978-0-316-04546-9 environmentalist, and United Nations Messenger of Peace. students may want to investigate the answer to their piles that correspond to their dice role. (Piles should In 1977 she founded the Jane Goodall Institute ( JGI), a own question and report back to the class. be numbered left to right.) When students get to an global nonprofit organization that empowers people to make activity card, they must perform the action on the card. a difference for all living things. Tooling Around Then, they can choose one card from any other pile to Dr. Jane Goodall’s observations of the chimpanzees cover the activity card. The game continues until only With anecdotes taken directly from Jane Goodall’s Photo courtesy of Jane Goodall in Gombe Stream National Park led to the discovery activity cards remain. autobiography, McDonnell makes this very true story that chimps are able to make and use tools. Up until accessible for the very young—and young at heart. this point, scientists believed only humans could do chArActer EducAtion this. Demonstrate why simple tools are important with Roots and Shoots About the Author/illustrAtor an experiment. Set up stations around the room with Dr. Jane is a woman of extraordinary conviction. Patrick McDonnell is the author of numerous children’s books, Art, Just like Heaven, South, the following materials at each: a yard stick, two bowls She believes so strongly in the importance of making Wag!, and the New York Times bestsellers The Gift of Nothing and Hug Time. He is also the (one filled with water), a sponge, two straws, a golf ball, a difference for animals and people that she helps coauthor of Krazy Kat: The Comic Art of George Herriman. Prior to the start of his book a small dish containing miniature marshmallows, and empower children around the world to make a positive career, McDonnell created the beloved internationally syndicated comic strip Mutts, a cap from a soda or water bottle. Place the golf ball impact too. Her Roots and Shoots programs are in which appears in over 700 newspapers and 20 countries. Many of the characters in Mutts on the ground about four feet away from each station. many communities in countries around the globe. are featured in several of his picture books. Charles Schulz, creator of the comic strip Divide students into groups and have each group stand It is simple to discover if there is already a Roots Peanuts, called Mutts, “one of the best comic strip of all time.” McDonnell has contributed next to a station. Each group must accomplish three and Shoots program near you by going to www. to many magazines, including Sports Illustrated, Reader’s Digest, Forbes, Time and Parents tasks. First, they must retrieve the golf ball without rootsandshoots.org. Students can join a group, start a Photo © Michael Keel Magazine that featured his comic strip Bad Baby, which ran for 10 years. moving from their station. Second they must fill the group, or simply take on a project to help animals, their empty bowl without moving either bowl. Third, they community or the environment. McDonnell is actively involved in various animal and environmental charities including must pick up the marshmallows without touching them The Humane Society of the United States and the Fund for Animals. He has received many Young Activists with any part of their body. Tell students they may use awards for his animal welfare work, as well as for Mutts. He lives in New Jersey with his only the materials at their station to complete the tasks. As students read more about Dr. Jane Goodall and wife Karen and their formerly feral cat MeeMow. Have students record how they completed each task, Patrick McDonnell, they will discover that both are and then share their ideas with the class. After sharing, animal rights advocates. While not every child will Also by PAtrick McDonnell ask students to reflect on the experiment. How did grow up to be an activist speaking out on behalf of they use “tools” to help them? Did every group use the animals, it is important for students to understand same set of tools to complete the tasks? How might that they can have an impact. Have students learn animals use tools? Why? Extend and connect by having about issues affecting animals in their community or students research how chimpanzees, woodpecker around the world, such as mistreatment of pets, use of finches, crows, and other animals use tools to make animals for product testing, or the living conditions their lives easier. of laboratory animals. Then, show them how they can get involved by writing letters to elected officials or MoveMent AnD Games educating the public by making posters or pamphlets. Monkey Business Game This should be a very guided activity because much Students work together in pairs or small groups to of the information and images associated with these The Gift of Nothing ART South Wag! Curriculum connections create and play an active trivia game. As students learn topics can be very disturbing for young children. The RG0024 978-0-316-11488-2 978-0-316-11491-2 978-0-316-00509-8 978-0-316-04548-3 D Biology D Animals D Biography about primates, countries where primates live, and the important lesson, however, is that citizens can make a work of Dr. Jane Goodall, ask them to create trivia difference by speaking up for those with no voice. 5 www.lbschoolandlibrary.com Educator’s Guide Prepared by Jennifer McMahon. Me...Jane Me...Jane Me...Jane learned about how to draw comics, have students apply little brother or sister, a family pet, an animal in the QUESTIONING puzzles (picture clue puzzles) and suggest they try to their knowledge to a biography project. Students can zoo, an insect, or any living thing. Then, have students Using the W’s to Build Understanding create a REBUS about their topic. Collect students’ choose a famous person and learn about their life, keep an observation field journal. First, students Review the question words: Who, What, Where, work and make copies for the class. Students can identify five key events and then illustrate them like a should just sit quietly and watch their subject for a When, and Why. Discuss how these words help us challenge each other to take the quizzes or solve the comic strip. They can add a few words to each picture, while. Immediately after their observation period gain valuable information about our reading and help puzzles they created. but it should primarily be the pictures telling the story. they should write what they noticed. If possible, ask BUILDING bACKGROUND us understand what we have read. While reading Me… students to repeat their observations over a period Predicting the Past Jane, have students generate a list of questions for each ART sociAl stuDies of several days, recording what they see each time. word that comes to mind as they read the book. They Comparing and Contrasting Me…Jane is a brief introduction to I’m Going to Tanzania and I’m Bringing… Students’ field journals might include a sketch of their could be literal questions such as, “Who was Jubilee?” Patrick McDonnell, the author and illustrator of Dr. Jane Goodall as a child. Before reading, Jane traveled to Africa from her home in England. subject, their observations, and then reflections or or they could be inferential questions like, “Why Me…Jane, is well known for his comic-like drawings. ask students if they have ever heard of First, help students develop their understanding of conclusions that could be drawn from what they have did Jane want to go to Africa?” Use students’ lists of This book, however, has two different types of Dr. Goodall. If so, ask them to share what geography by finding England and Tanzania on a observed. Encourage students to practice being a quiet questions to guide the comprehension conversation drawings. Have students study the two types of they know. Continue the discussion by world map.

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