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Exploring Animals in Literature

For Teachers K - 3rd
Celebrate Be Kind to Animals Week while teaching empathy and allegory with creature-related texts
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PreKinders

Pet Picture-Word Cards

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Talk about the furry members of your family with pet word cards. Each card is a half page, and shows both the name and picture of a pet, including dogs, snakes, horses, and hermit crabs.
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Pet Perspective

For Teachers K - 12th
Discuss point of view through a familiar medium: your pet! Learners write a story from the perspective of their own or the class pet. Prompts such as "My Family" (or "My Class"), "My Day," and "A Day in the Life of a _________" help...
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Walk Like Animals

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
There's nothing like a good movement activity for young learners. In this one, everyone pretends to be a certain kind of animal and moves in a way that the animal really does. First, a brainstorm session is held where the kids name the...
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Unit Plan
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A World of Animals: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 10)

For Teachers K Standards
Provide extra support with this collection of animal-themed lessons. Early readers gain proficiency in high frequency words are and he, practice blending short vowel sounds, and substitute initial and final phonemes while creating...
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Looking After Our Pets

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore animal lifestyles by illustrating images. In this pet care lesson, students discuss their own pets and the conditions animals need to survive in both nature or a home. Students draw snakes and complete an activity sheet...
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My Perfect Pet

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students explore pet ownership. For this my perfect pet lesson, students research common animals used as pets and complete a variety of activities based on this data. 
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Animals Matter

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore philanthropy. In this character education lesson, students define and give examples of philanthropy. Students listen to the story A Symphony of Whales and describe how the characters helped the whales. Students discuss...
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Pets

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students participate in an after school program that promotes making decisions, getting along with others, decision-making, and being responsible. A pet survey is administered along with a variety of pet riddles with the students. They...
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Lesson Plans for Sweet Dreams: How Animals Sleep

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore the sleeping patterns and sleeping habitats of animals. In this where animals sleep lesson, students research different animal species. Students also write and illustrate an animal picture book, make connections about...
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Pet Detective WebQuest

For Teachers K - 5th
Students take an online tour to learn about pets and their care. They click on selected Web links and answer questions about the material they encounter. They share something they learned from the WebQuest with a partner.
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Pick a Pet

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars design informational materials to educate people on the importance of matching a new pet to the family's lifestyle and living arrangements. Students use critical thinking skills to make a decision on the appropriate choice...
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Pet Accordion Book

For Students K - 1st
In this animal learning exercise, students create a mini-book about animals that are pets. Students cut and paste the animal to the correct page in the book.
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Pets: Stuffed Animal Day

For Teachers K
Students bring in their favorite stuffed animals to class, and listen to the book, The Perfect Pet. They develop graphs for their stuffed animals, and create booklets titled, My Pet Book.
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Worksheet
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Pets - A Mini-Book

For Students Pre-K - K
In this pets mini-book worksheet sets, students make a book, either in color or black and white, that includes names of pets such as rabbit, turtle, dog, cat, bird, fish, and hamster. They see lines under the picture of each pet but...
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The Best Pet

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners listen to the story , Pet Show, and discuss the variety of animals that were in the show. The class recalls the animals and practice sounding out the names. Then they decide which animal should receive the best of show ribbon.
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Pets - Stuffed Animal Day

For Teachers K
Students listen to Courtney Baker's, "The Perfect Pet," on a day they bring a stuffed animal to school. They graph the types of stuffed animals that their classmates brought to school before answering questions based on the graph. Next,...
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Read Aloud Lesson Plan: Water for One, Water for Everyone

For Teachers K
Pupils listen to a read aloud about African animals as they access a watering hole. They discuss the characteristics of Africa such as the temperature, it distance from the students, and lifestyle of the animals. They talk about how...
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Fabulous Felines

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore basic needs through discovering that pets and people need very similar things. They will play matching games, sing songs, read books, and discuss the needs of people and animals.
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Respect for Animals

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discuss importance of acting responsibly when caring for pets, reflect upon quote, "All Living Beings Have the Right to Respect and Kindness," read story Anastasia Wants a Rabbit and answer comprehension questions, role play...
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Interactive
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English Exercise: Animals Exercises for Kindergarten Students

For Students K
In this Winnie the Pooh themed interactive worksheet, students choose between "it or they" using drop down menus in 8 examples. They choose which character is missing in each of 5 rows and name the animal each of 5 characters represents...
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How Animals Bond

For Teachers K - 2nd
In this animals lesson plan, students students write a description about a pet or animal that they know. They include details that would help someone who has never met their animal feel like they know it already. Artwork about their...
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Interactive
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Kindergarten Kids: What Is It? - Animals

For Students K - 1st
In this naming animals worksheet, students look at picture of animals and choose their correct name from a drop down list, then do the same to answer what the animals are doing.
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Interactive
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Animals

For Students K - 1st
In this online/interactive worksheet, students observe pictures of animal characters, click the pop-up menus, and select the correct names for the animals. Students choose 40 answers.

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