More Than Time: teacher key

Friendship, grade 5 edition, written for 5th grade. Time together matters, and so do talk and shared interests. Read what studies of children, adults and baboons found.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What does time together do by itself?
   • It does not automatically make friends (answer)
   • It always makes best friends
   • It ends a friendship
2. What did friends show more of when watching the same movies?
   • Louder laughs
   • Similar brain responses (answer)
   • Longer naps
3. When were baby baboons more likely to survive?
   • When they lived alone
   • When they were bigger
   • When their mothers had close friendships with other females (answer)
4. What does network mean on the brain page?
   • A web of people (answer)
   • A kind of movie
   • A game board
5. What can you tell about a close friend from the studies?
   • It takes fewer hours
   • It takes more hours together than a casual friend (answer)
   • It takes no time

Words

• acquaintance: someone you know
• confide: share private thoughts
• network: web of people
• troop: animal group