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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Dog Sled Family Activity

For Students K - 1st
Follow the steps to make a paper dog sled, complete with dog team and passengers - Molly, Tooey, and Trini from the PBS Kids series Molly of Denali! Where will your imagination take them?
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Molly of Denali: Sled Dog Dash Game

For Students 1st - 2nd
Use this Molly of Denali digital game to extend and expand children's use of informational text, as well as their knowledge of Alaska Native culture. Molly and her friend Tooey use a fictional app to access information that will help...
Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Neptune or the Autobiography of a Newfoundland Dog by E Burrows

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Neptune or The Autobiography of a Newfoundland Dog by E. Burrows (1890), a novel about the life of a dog from the dog's point of view.
Handout
BBC

Bbc Nature: Wolves, Dogs and Jackals

For Students 9th - 10th
The Canis genus has as its member's jackals, wolves, the coyote, and the domestic dog. Members of the genus are found on every continent except Antarctica, the dingo having been introduced to Australia a few thousand years ago. Learn...
Unit Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Memories Sorted on a Timeline

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This is a book review for Marley and Me by John Grogan in which he details events, both good and bad, in his life with his dog Marley. The activity focuses on having students remember and write down experiences in their lives (both good...
Graphic
Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Still Life With Flowers and a Dog

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Still Life with Flowers and a Dog", created by Juan Van Der Hamen, c. 1625-30 (Oil on canvas, 228 x 95 cm).
Graphic
Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Still Life With a Peacock and a Dog

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Still-Life with a Peacock and a Dog", created by Jan Weenix in 1696 (Oil on canvas, 144 x 187 cm).
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Cloned Canine

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the first scientists to successfully clone a dog. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Interactive
Geffrye Museum

Geffrye Museum: Interactive Journey: Travel Back to Victorian London

For Students 3rd - 8th
Travel back in time to the Victorian era in this interactive journey to help Ruby & Michael search for Sam, their missing dog. While you are searching, you can learn about Victorian life by examining the objects in the house,...
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Hindu Deity Shiva in the Fierce Form of Bhairava

For Students 9th - 10th
Individual Hindu gods manifest themselves in many forms, in some cases including the ferocious and terrifying. Among his many guises, Shiva is an ascetic and mendicant who renounces conventional earthly existence to pursue extreme...
Activity
University of Toronto (Canada)

Selected Poetry of Susanna Moodie (1803 1885)

For Students 9th - 10th
A great resource on the poetry of Susanna Moodie with five examples ("The Dying Hunter to His Dog," "Fancy and the Poet," "My Autograph," "The Sleigh-Bells," and "The Step Mother"), as well as notes on Moodie's life and works.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Canine Courage

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about rescue dogs and how they are better equipped than humans for situations like the World Trade Center collapse on September 11, 2001. A question sheet is available to help...
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Through the Nose

For Teachers 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about dogs and their sense of smell. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Handout
Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Pende

For Students 9th - 10th
The Pende occupy a territory that extends from the banks of the Lutshima, a tributary of the Kwilu, to the Kasai. The last colonial census (1959) indicated that there were 200,000 western Pende and another 40,000 Pende in Kasai, the...
Graphic
Curated OER

Eternal Egypt: Statue of Hermanubis

For Students 9th - 10th
The statue depicts Hermanubis, Master of the Necropolises. He played a role in granting life to mummies. A dog is shown to his right and he holds a palm branch and carries on his head the sacred basket called the "Kalathos."
eBook
LM Digital Media

Kids World Fun: Pirate the Barking Kookaburra [Pdf]

For Students K - 1st
Pirate is a lost baby kookaburra. He befriends a colorful bunch of dogs and a cat. His sense of fun turns their life upside down. But at the same time, the dogs' survival skills and the cat's wisdom take Pirate on a journey that changes...
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Curated OER

Smithsonian Institution Archives: Wynne Sharples Ballinger (1923 2008)

For Students 9th - 10th
As a pediatrician and mother, Wynne Sharples (Ballinger) (1923-2008) became known for her advocacy work on cystic fibrosis. In 1945, she was working in the biological laboratories at Radcliffe College and then trained at Columbia...

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