Two wonderful resources to build upon the upcoming DisneyNature movie “Chimpanzee” were just released – the Family Activity Book and the Educator’s Guide. DisneyNature “Chimpanzee” opens nationwide on Earth Day (4/20) 2012.
Family Activity Book
This printable activity book contains 19 full pages of mazes, fact sheets, connect-the-dots, and more. Eight of those pages are dedicated to informational trading cards featuring various rainforest wildlife.
Educator’s Guide
Now THIS is an amazing study supplement (128 pages) for teachers or homeschooling parents. The difficulty level can be adjusted for grades 2-6 and contains answer keys for all the activities. There’s a wealth of potential lesson plans in the form of Venn diagrams, plotting coordinates, emotional identification, and scientific classification to name just a few. I would highly recommend printing this out in full color. In fact, I will probably bring it to a printing place to be bound as well.
I want to go see this movie with the kids I babysit for. I started to tear up just watching the commercial. Now why don’t they make more movies like this? Kids love this stuff.
Did you see the last DisneyNature one – African Cats? That was pretty awesome too. I’m a bit curious if this can keep our/kids’ attention for 1-1/2 hours though.
My daughter and I looking forward to seeing this movie, we just saw a preview for it today and she was so interested in how they were able to film the chimpanzees up close!
I know – the videography looks great. I only wonder how hard it was to film and not interfere with a little orphan chimpanzee…
No never saw African Cats. I will look that up. They are always looking for something new to watch. Thanks for the recommendation.