Jane Goodall
Spooky STEM Careers
The Human Body
STEM in Real Life
Weird Science
100

Jane Goodall is best known for studying this animal.

What are chimpanzees?

100

This spooky STEM career involves analyzing fingerprints and blood to help solve crimes.

What is a forensic scientist?

100

This vital organ keeps your body running by pumping blood.

What is the heart?

100

What does “STEM” stand for?

What is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math?

100

Frankenstein’s monster came to life with this natural power.

What is electricity?

200

Jane did most of her field research in this African country.

What is Tanzania?

200

This scientist studies poisons and chemicals and how they affect humans and animals.

What is a toxicologist?

200

You have over 200 of these in your body, and they protect your organs and help you move.

What are bones?

200

This STEM subject helps you count money, measure ingredients, and calculate time.

What is math?

200

These slimy creatures were once commonly placed on patients to suck blood for medical treatment.

What are leeches?

300

Jane discovered that chimpanzees could do this, once thought to be only a human trait.

What is using tools?

300

This career involves studying human bones and teeth to learn about ancient people.

What is a bioarchaeologist?

300

This system controls your thoughts, emotions, and body functions — and it's made up of the brain, spinal cord, and nerves.

What is the nervous system?

300

Doctors use this simple tool to listen to your heartbeat.

What is a stethoscope?

300

This metal, once used in paint and pipes, is poisonous and especially dangerous to children.

What is lead?

400

What is the name of the organization Jane Goodall founded to support wildlife conservation?

What is the Jane Goodall Institute?

400

A forensic pathologist determines cause of death by performing what procedure?

What is an autopsy?

400

This system helps fight off infections and keeps you healthy — it includes white blood cells and lymph nodes.

What is the immune system?

400

This field of science studies the weather and helps predict storms.

What is meteorology?

400

This life-saving medication was discovered after scientist Alexander Fleming left out a moody petri dish.

What is penicillin?

500

These famous anthropologists encouraged Jane to study animals. 

Who is Louis and Marie Leakey? 

500

This gas, commonly studied in toxicology, can be deadly and is called the “silent killer.”

What is carbon monoxide?

500

Your body uses this chemical element to carry oxygen in your blood — it's also found in rust!

What is iron?

500

Doctors use this type of imaging, discovered with X-rays, to look inside the human body.

What is medical imaging (or radiology)?

500

This early science tried to turn metals into gold and discover the secret to eternal life.

What is alchemy?

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