We have a new project in Humanities, and so far it’s been great. For our first project, we had to research a historical figure who was thought of as crazy, and go in depth on why this person was thought of as crazy and how they changed the world. To start this project of we watched an Apple ad titled as think differently. This video helped shape to project, and guided our learning so that we would be on track when we started the project.
https://youtu.be/8rwsuXHA7RA
Next we picked a historical figure, I picked Jane Goodall. We also had to go in-depth on there upbringings and why they were thought of as crazy. This is what I had when I concluded my research.
Scientist Jane Goodall in Gombe National Park. 1965
Jane Goodall was born on April 3, 1934 in London, England, to Mortimer Goodall, a businessperson and motor-racing enthusiast, and Margaret Joseph, a novelist. Along with her sister Judy Goodall, Jane was raised in London, and Bournemouth, England. Jane was fascinated with animal behaviour at a very young age. In her free time she loved to draw the native wildlife, and study zoology, and ethology.
Goodall attended the Uplands private school, receiving her school certificate in 1950 and a higher school certificate in 1952. She went on to find employment as a secretary at Oxford University, and in her spare time also worked at a London-based documentary film company to finance a long-awaited trip to Africa. 
In Africa, she studied the life and behaviours of chimpanzees, eventually gaining the trust of a small tribe. She eventually established what she termed the “banana club”, a daily systematic feeding method she used to gain trust and to obtain a more thorough understanding of everyday chimpanzee behaviour.
Goodhall also noted that chimpanzees throw stones as weapons, use touch and embraces to comfort one another and develop long-term familial bonds. The male plays no active role in family life but is part of the group’s social stratification. Upending the belief that chimps were exclusively vegetarian, Goodall witnessed chimps stalking, killing and eating large insects, birds and some bigger animals, including baby baboons and bushbacks (small antelopes). On one occasion, she recorded acts of cannibalism. In another instance, she observed chimps inserting blades of grass or leaves into termite hills to insects onto the blade. In true toolmaker fashion, they modified the grass to achieve a better fit, then used the grass as a long-handled spoon to eat the termites.
Even though her overall goal was to prevent the chimpanzees extinction, she was able to accomplish an even greater goal in the African jungle, family. Jane married Hugo van Lawick her wildlife filmmaker, in 1964. In their time together they had a child, Grub, and helped popularize the study of chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream National Park.
Gombe, Tanzania – Jane Goodall kisses her son Grub.
Many of Goodall’s endeavours are conducted under the support of the Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research, Education and Conservation, a nonprofit organization that promotes the protection of chimpanzees and strong environmental practice. She also started the roots and shoots foundation, which is based towards a younger audience.
Goodall’s academic credentials were solidified when she received a Ph.D. in ethology from Cambridge University in 1965; she was just the eighth person in the university’s long history permitted to pursue a Ph.D without first earning a baccalaureate degree. She also is the honorary visiting professor of zoology at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. In recognition of her achievements, Goodall has received numerous honours and awards, including the Gold Medal of Conservation from the San Diego Zoological Society in 1974, the J. Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation Prize in 1984, the Schweitzer Medal of the Animal Welfare Institute in 1987, and many more.
Goodall’s research and documentation on chimpanzees shed light on the importance of preserving our rain forests. Her ability to popularize this message lit the fire behind the environmental movement for generations to come. Our final part of the project was to make a PêchaKucha on keynote. A PêchaKucha is a way to present your medium to an audience. You find a group of photos and don’t add any text to them. Next you would set them in your presentation software and set a given time between each photos, I chose twenty seconds. Overall I thought that this was a great project and it really helped me think differently about what it takes to be creative. Here is all the photos I used for my PêchaKucha.
