Jane Morris Goodall | An important asset to the scientist community

Jane Morris Goodall has accomplished so many things since she stepped foot in Tanzania in 1960. Jane Morris Goodall studied chimpanzees in the wild for just about 55 years. At first, success was not an option. When Jane Goodall started to try to study the chimpanzees of the park, they ran away and hid from her. They were not used to humans being so close to them. Jane Goodall once noted that she could not get within 500ft of their eating area without them abandoning ship. After months of hard work and patterns of showing up, the chimpanzees finally started to get used to her. During her life, Jane Morris Goodall went to many private schools at a young age, before being advised to go to a public college. Jane went to college and earned her Ph. D. at Cambridge University. She started out working as a secretary at Oxford University and also worked for a London based documentary film company. During and after her work in the field, she did visiting professorships in zoology at the University of Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania. She also did a visiting professorship in psychiatry at Stanford University. Ever since her time in the field, many things have been named after her. Things like the Jane Goodall Environmental Middle School and the Jane Goodall hiking trail in Ontario, Canada. Jane Goodall has done amazing work, she was the first to discover that chimpanzees eat meat and use/make stone tools. Up until this point in time, we thought that this was a human characteristic. Jane Goodall has changed the way that people look at chimpanzees and think about evolution, she proved that we are not much different than chimpanzees, our closest animal relative.

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SP8: Communicating Information

I communicated information about how Jane Goodall is a very important scientist when I talked about Jane Goodall on video about how she was and still is important to the scientist community. I also communicated what she accomplished and why that is important through my scientist wanted poster. This showed how she was important and what she did during her time in and out of the field.

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Cross-Cutting Concept: Stability And Change

At the end and beginning of the school years, I tend to get more stressed out about things. This comes a lot from change. In the middle of the school year, everything seems to be more stable, you are used to your class, teachers and the work that you have to do. Whereas, at the beginning and the and of the school year, there is a lot of change. Change in teachers, classes, classmates. This also seems to throw off all of the patterns that you have established. There are more projects and things you have to do that come in a big load. Then, at the beginning of the year, there is a lot more paperwork that you have to bring home. Overall, all the things that you are used to, seem to get messed up. This becomes more stable in the middle of the year, when there is less paperwork and the projects and time between each project thins out so there is less work for the amount of time. You get a more stable ratio of work to time in the middle of the year, which is the things that I think makes the middle of the year more stable then the beginning and end.

Jane Goodall

Dame Jane Morris Goodall, born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall, is a primatologist and anthropologist that is known for her study of chimpanzees in the wild. She was born on April 3rd, 1934, and first set off to Tanzania in 1960. She started her study of wild chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. She would work with, protect and study chimpanzees for about another 55 years and start and work alongside many programs like the Jane Goodall Institute. Jane Goodall is still a highly honored and recognized personal of the scientific community and has received many awards and titles over the years. She was married twice and had one child alongside her work in the field. The first time she got married, she was married to Baron Hugo Van Lawick on March 28th, 1964. They had a son, Hugo Eric Louis, in 1967, only 7 years before the couple divorced. She then got remarried to Derek Bryceson in 1975. They worked together at the Gombe National Park for several years until Derek sadly died of cancer. Overall, Jane Goodall's work in and out of the field is highly recognized and much appreciated. She was awarded so many awards that she can document about 2 per year for about 26 years. Jane Goodall studied, protected and worked with chimpanzees over many years, because of this we have many things that we can now understand.

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SP6: Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions

Through my research, I was able to define why and how Jane Goodall is famous and important to the scientific world. I was able to get a better understanding of what she accomplished and discovered over her many years of research. I explained through my work why Jane Goodall is very important to science and why she deserves the recognition that she has.

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Cross-Cutting Concept: Patterns

During the first couple months of research, Jane Goodall had very little to no success. The chimpanzees were not used to her and were very scared to come by her. Eventually, Jane was able to establish a pattern of when she showed up and where. This was able to show the chimpanzees that she was no threat. This then leads to her getting more involved with them and later, welcomed into their family. She also had to establish a pattern of getting back to the chimpanzees every morning in the same spot so she knew where they would be and so they knew where to find her. This helped her spend more time with the chimpanzees instead of chasing them around the forest. She was able to use patterns to help her become close to the chimpanzees which were a huge game changer that allowed her to study chimpanzees very well.

Tsunami proof house

Tsunami's are terrible natural disasters that happens when an underwater earthquake creates a huge wave, this wave sometimes crashes into land destroying everything in its path. Thousand of people die through tsunami's and their is not much people can do about it. We built a tsunami proof house that would withstand the pressure and water of a tsunami. We made it a triangle with the point facing the ocean so that it would split the oncoming wave as it crashed towards the house.We made the roof a slant but still a rectangle because this way it would allow the wave to crash on top of the house but all of the water would slide off of it keeping the roof in tact. We decided to make the house out of metal in the real life situation because it is a very accessible resource and common in Japan. The place were we choose our house to be in. We used plastic to represent the acrylic windows that they use in the aquariums because it is very strong. Tsunami's are very dangerous and the best thing you can hope to do during one is get as far away as possible. The strength of the tsunami crumbles buildings as the water drowns houses. But with the technology of the house it is able to withstand the dangers of the tsunami.

Backwards-Looking

Whilst building our model we used a variety of materials. We used pop-sicle sticks, wood, fabric, clear folders and duck tape. I think that the wood and the duck tape were some of the most useful materials because it was strong and water proof, which it just what we needed. I feel as though I would use all of the materials that I had used in this project, again. It was a good structure that did what it was supposed to do and I like that.

Inwards-looking

I think what was especially satisfying about the end result of the project, is that our house survived the tsunami. It was the feeling that it worked that made me happy. This was because just about anyone can come up with an idea and put it on paper, but not even close to that number of people can actually build their ideas and have them work.

Outwards-Looking

I think that when someone looks at my project, I want them to see how much hard work and time was put into the project. I would want them to notice how everything fit together and had a purpose and job in making sure the the house survived the tsunami. Over all I would want people to notice that a lot of hard work was put into the making of this project and that it was thought about.

Forwards-Looking


If I got to do this project over again, I think that I would have spent more time on the little things and not just the big important ones. Things like making the inside look nice, or duck taping the base of the house to make it a little more water resistant, or adding more furniture. Basically I would want my house to actually look and function like a real house. It obviously doesn't have to have electricity or those kinds of things (all though that would be cool), I just want it to feel more like a home, not just a cool looking structure.