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    • PRIMATE FACTS
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    • APES OF AFRICA
      • BONOBOS
      • CHIMPANZEES
      • GORILLAS
    • APES OF ASIA
      • GIBBONS
      • ORANGUTANS
    • MONKEYS OF AFRICA
      • BABOONS
      • COLOBUS MONKEYS
      • GELADAS
      • GRIVET, MALBROUCK, TANTALUS, GREEN, AND VERVET MONKEYS
      • GUENONS
      • KIPUNJIS
      • AFRICAN MACAQUE
      • MANDRILLS
      • MANGABEYS
      • PATAS MONKEYS
      • SWAMP MONKEYS
      • TALAPOINS
    • MONKEYS OF ASIA
      • LANGURS
      • MACAQUES
      • PROBOSCIS MONKEYS
      • SNUB-NOSED MONKEYS
    • MONKEYS OF LATIN AMERICA
      • CAPUCHIN MONKEYS
      • HOWLER MONKEYS
      • MARMOSETS
      • MURIQUIS
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      • SPIDER MONKEYS
      • SQUIRREL MONKEYS
      • TAMARINS
      • TITI MONKEYS
      • UAKARIS
      • WOOLLY MONKEYS
    • PROSIMIANS OF AFRICA
      • ANGWANTIBOS
      • GALAGOS OR BUSHBABIES
      • LEMURS
        • AYE-AYES
        • DWARF AND MOUSE LEMURS
        • INDRIS
        • SIFIKAS
        • SPORTIVE LEMURS
        • “TRUE LEMURS”
        • WOOLLY LEMURS OR AVAHIS
      • POTTOS
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      • LORISES
      • TARSIERS
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    • AFRICAN PROSIMIANS AT-A-GLANCE
    • ASIAN APES AT-A-GLANCE
    • ASIAN MONKEYS AT-A-GLANCE
    • ASIAN PROSIMIANS AT-A-GLANCE
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  • LESSONS AND ACTIVITIES
    • CONSERVATION THEMED
      • ALPHABET SOUP OF CONSERVATION—VIDEO AND INTRODUCTION
      • THE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING HABITIT: THE CANDY CULPRIT
      • CONSERVATION EXPLORATION
      • LIFE IN THE WORLD’S TROPICAL RAINFORESTS
    • PRIMATE THEMED
      • BECOME A PRIMATE PRO…SORT OF
        • 10 OF THE MOST WELL-KNOWN PRIMATE SPECIES
        • 10 OF THE WEIRDEST PRIMATE SPECIES
        • 10 PRIMATE SPECIES YOU PROBABLY NEVER HEARD OF
        • 10 OF THE MOST ENDANGERED PRIMATE SPECIES
      • COLOR ME CHIMPANZEE
      • DICHOTOMOUS KEY
        • PRACTICE OBSERVATION
        • IDENTIFY TAMARIN SPECIES
        • CREATE A DICHOTOMOUS KEY FOR LEMURS
        • DICHOTOMOUS KEY, EDUCATOR’S PAGE
      • PRIMATES AND THEIR HABITATS
      • WHERE PRIMATES LIVE
      • YOUR EVOLUTIONARY FAMILY TREE
    • YOU’RE THE SCIENTIST!
      • DICHOTOMOUS KEY—IDENTIFY TAMARIN AND LEMUR SPECIES
      • YOUR EVOLUTIONARY FAMILY TREE
    • WHAT IS NATURE? INTRODUCTION
      • LESSON 1: HOW NATURE WORKS
        • ECOSYSTEMS
        • ENERGY
        • SOIL
        • THE FOOD CHAIN
          • BUILD A FOOD CHAIN ACTIVITIES
        • HOW NATURE WORKS SUMMARY
        • FOR EDUCATORS: HOW NATURE WORKS LESSON
      • LESSON 2: POLLINATION AND POLLINATORS
        • ESSENTIAL RESOURCES
        • POLLINATION
          • NATURAL PEST PREVENTION
        • COEVOLUTION
        • RESEARCH POLLINATORS AND PLANTS
          • BUILD A BUG HOTEL
          • BUILD A POLLINATOR GARDEN
        • FOR EDUCATORS: POLLINATION LESSON
    • HOW TO HELP WILDLIFE
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      • USING MEDIA
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Living in Concrete, Planting Seeds

  • Post author:Debra Curtin
  • Post published:June 15, 2021
  • Post category:Educator's Blog

At my urban public kindergarten, our teacher had us plant radish seeds in clear plastic cups so we could observe white roots snaking through tiny clumps of earth and the…

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