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Animals and Their Houses
In this pets picture matching worksheet, students examine 4 pictures of pets: a dog, bird, snake and cat. Students color the pictures and draw a line from the pet to the picture of its house.
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Pets Word Search Worksheet
In this word search worksheet, learners locate 18 words about pets that are hidden in the puzzle. They find words from a word bank at the bottom of the page which include gerbil, mouse, parakeet, and canary.
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Pet Scramble
In this literacy learning exercise, students unscramble the words related to common household pets for seven words. The answers are revealed by opening the button.
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Care For Your Classroom Computer
Learners discover the proper way to care for their computers at school. As a class, they use the Internet to view a website on how to care for pets and relate it to their classroom computer. To end the lesson, they are given different...
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Geography: Lesson One
Students pretend they have been chosen to receive an elephant for a pet. Individually, they use the internet to research where elephants come from, their diet and sleeping behaviors. They identify their habitat and their characteristics...
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Responsibility: Caring for Classroom Virtual Pets
Students define the term "responsibility". As a class, they participate in voting on different ideas presented to them and develop a graph showing the results. They use the internet to virtually take care of the adopted pet of the class.
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Too Many Pets
Fourth graders investigate the problem of pet overpopulation in the United States. They gather information and statistics using a variety of resources in order to report the findings to the class. Then they work together in order to...
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What Do They Need?
Second graders engage in a lesson plan that covers some of the basic needs of pets. They engage in a the completion of a needs worksheet that serves as a way to organize ideas as they come up in class discussion. The needs of a pet are...
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What Is A Veteriniarian
First graders investigate the concept of a veterinarian and how they are compared to a child's pediatrician. They conduct some basic inquiry using class materials. Then students participate in a class discussion to ask questions and...
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Pet Mania
Students participate in a simple vocabulary game identifying animals.Students discuss their experiences with their own pets and role play situation between a parent and their child who desperately wants a pet. Students read a text...
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Cloning
Students view the history to cloning cats. Students show examples of what they know about cloning. Students surf the net on all theories on cloning. Students view the critics views on cloning.
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Owning a Pet
Fourth graders identify and use different forms of writing for various purposes. Using the internet, they read and gather information and write quesitons for their own investigations on the various pets they could own. They practice...
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A Fish in Water
First graders, with a goldfish as a class pet, practice the proper way to care for a pet and have responsibilities when it comes to taking care of the fish. As a class, the teacher reads the book "Fish Out of Water".
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Beastly Careers
Fourth graders discuss careers related to pets and animals. They talk about their own pets and investigate animal careers that interest them. They write a paper and draw a picture of their choice career.
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Research Project
Students poll the class regarding their favorite pet and then research that pet using Internet research. They create reports including pictures made on KidPix.
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Animals and Their Needs
Students identify the characteristics of living things and examine objects to see if they are living. They identify the needs of living things, in particular of animals and animal babies. They discuss how to care for pets.
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Our Favorite Pet
Students each have a turn, telling the class his or her favorite pet. The choices are cat, dog, fish or bird. Using the computer, the information from the tally be recorded on a spreadsheet and bar graph.