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Hi everyone! Welcome back to Storytime.
My name is teacher Vivian, and 
I'm so excited to see you again.
Today, we're going to be learning about Jane Goodall
through our new series through different cool people 
in STEAM that we're going to learn about.
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All right, let's get started!
Like I said, today, we're going to 
be learning about Jane Goodall,
and she was a primatologist wild about chimpanzees.
On the first line here, I already see a really
big word, and that big word is "primatologist,"
and a primatologist is someone 
who likes to study primates,
and primates (another word) is a group of animals that includes animals like chimpanzees but also humans too.
So we're going to learn more 
about chimpanzees today too.
So, Jane Goodall was born in 1934 in England,
and as a little girl, she loved to look at 
the animals outside and draw them,
and she also liked to read books about animals.
Wow! I think that's really cool that Jane 
liked to look outside and draw animals.
Maybe she even had a nature journal.
You could even make your own 
nature journal too and go outside.
Just take a piece of paper and a pencil, and you can 
draw what you see about animals and plants outside,
and then you can learn more about 
the animals and even research some more too.
Jane had a big dream: She wanted to go to Africa 
to see all of the animals and learn about them,
and her mom told her to follow her dreams.
Wow! Her mom was really encouraging.
That was really cool that Jane wanted to learn more, and 
her mom supported her in wanting to learn more too.
After she graduated high school, she 
didn't have money to go to college.
While she was working, her friend 
invited her to come to Kenya,
so she saved up money to go on a boat 
to finally travel to Africa.
Wow! After all those years of having 
the dream of wanting to go to Africa,
she was getting the opportunity to, 
and I think that's really cool.
Jane met someone named Dr. Leakey and his wife,
and she got to travel in Africa 
as their helper during their research.
She went to Tanzania, and she met lots of chimpanzees.
Here's a picture of Jane and Dr. Leakey right here.
She had to work very hard to build relationships with 
the chimpanzees, so they would not get scared of her,
and soon, they let her be around them.
Wow! Isn't that so cool?
She's almost about to hold the hand of this chimpanzee.
It probably took a long time to build those relationships,
because I heard that sometimes, the 
chimpanzees can get scared at first.
Wow, this picture is really cool.
Over time, Jane found out new discoveries about 
chimpanzees that the world did not know before.
For example, people thought that chimpanzees 
only ate plants, but she observed them eating meat.
Sometimes, as we learn more, our knowledge 
of science can be improved or changed.
What we know now about science isn't necessarily 
the only thing that we can know forever or the only truth.
Actually, over time, as scientists get to know more, 
sometimes we find out that we were wrong in the past,
but that's okay because we are all 
trying to learn more in science.
She also learned that chimpanzees 
use tools, just like humans do,
and she felt that chimpanzees have 
emotions and personalities too.
Wow! So, it looks here that this chimpanzee is trying to 
take a stick and do something with this tree right here.
I've also seen really cool pictures of chimpanzees 
using their hands to do things or using rocks too.
Jane went to college and learned a lot 
more about animals and how they act.
Then, she did more research.
It's never too late to learn more.
At any age, you can always go back and try to 
learn more about whatever you're passionate about,
and you can keep doing research about science too.
You can learn science at any age.
Today, Jane travels the world teaching people 
about chimpanzees and how to take care of nature.
She teaches people how to conserve (which
is a word that means "protect") the natural world.
Wow, that is really awesome!
I heard that Jane goes to lots of different places,
and she shares a lot of different 
stories about her travels in Africa
and what she knows about the chimpanzees 
and how they're kind of in danger right now.
That's so cool.
I don't know about you, but I feel really inspired by Jane.
She was always so willing to follow her dreams and then 
go and learn even more, no matter what age she was at.
And even now, she has the ability to teach
other people and share that knowledge too.
And I hope that we as scientists, 
we can keep learning more
and even sometimes find out that some things 
we know about science might be wrong,
and that we can learn more and develop our understanding of science even better.
So I encourage you to go out and be like Jane.
Take your paper and your pencil, 
and draw things you see outside,
and think about what makes you 
interested or what makes you curious.
All right everyone, thank you so much 
for joining me for Storytime.
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I'm teacher Vivian, signing off. Bye, everyone!
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