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Captain Planet Foundation

Solar Cooking Race

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Study heat transfer with activities that focus on how heat energy works. Using a solar cooker, ice cubes, and heat transfer bracelets, kids experiment and record what they find by keeping ice cubes cold and vegetables hot.
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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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Mathematics Vision Project

Module 2: Systems of Equations and Inequalities

For Teachers 8th - 10th Standards
The brother-sister pair Carlos and Clarita need your class's help in developing their new pet sitting business. Through a variety of scenarios and concerns presented to the siblings, the learners thoroughly explore systems of equations...
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Feed the Birds

For Students 6th - 12th
Scholars use a large carton, string, an emery board, and bird food to create a hand-made bird feeder. After completing the craft, pupils keep a journal to track their observations.
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Road Runner Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students identify that fluency helps them to read faster, smoother, and with more expression. They read a book where a pet dog named Red is hungry and wants her owner to give her food. Students practice quick reading by reading until...
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Costs of Providing for animals

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the necessary costs of animals shelters and taking care of one pet. In this providing for animals lesson, students calculate the costs of keeping a pet. Students understand the need for outside funding for animal shelters.
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Where Do Animals Live?

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students c;assify where pets live and where wild animals live and comprehend the differences. They investigate what kinds of homes pets and wild animals need. Students bring in a stuffed animal or puppet from home and match their...
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From Moo to You

For Teachers K
Pupils listen to a story about cows and identify foods made from milk. They have a tasting party and practice a finger play called "Five Mugs of Milk."
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4-H Cat Activity Page

For Students 5th - 8th
As part of a unit on animals, this would be an interesting activity for upper elementary and middle school students. The 40 question activity could be linked to a research activity on animals or pets.
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Show Me Economics - Families Have Needs

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore the four basic needs. Through discussion, 1st graders discover that all people need food, clothing, shelter and love. They create a collage representing the four basic needs. Students sing songs about basic needs.
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The Influence of Carbon Dioxide on the Chemistry of Soda

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the carbon dioxide content of different sodas. In this chemistry lesson, students explain why PET containers are preferable than HDPE for soda bottles. They collect data and graph them.
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Menus & Money

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars explore, examine and study how to strengthen their skills in writing, drawing and handling money at the same time. They assess how to open a pretend diner, pet shop or grocery store. Each student names their pretend...
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Feed Me!

For Students K - 2nd
When youngsters are learning about the basic needs of humans and animals, this instructional activity could come in handy. In it, pupils circle the pictures of a living thing that is eating food. There are eight pictures all in all, and...
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Name that plant!

For Students 5th
What is a dichotomous key? When your kids ask, hand them a learning exercise like this one, to explain it. They use the key to identify four different trees, based on the budding twigs they've produced. Tip: Have learners extend this...
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Animal Tracks Program

For Teachers K - 2nd
Entice your learners with this instructional activity on animal footprints. After reading the story Footprints in the Snow by Cynthia Benjamin, they use photos to identify animals and their footprints. Then they participate in an...
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Holiday Writing Prompts

For Teachers 3rd - 10th
Students experience and practice their writing skills during the holiday season. They express themselves in a variety of ways including writing about a favorite part about the holiday break, what's the best gift you've ever gotten and...
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A Day at the Pet Store: Solving Word Problems

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this word problem learning exercise, students solve a set of 4 problems, crossing out extra information and writing what they need to know if necessary. Answers on page 2.
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Life Processes and Living Things-Humans and Other Animals

For Teachers 8th - 11th
In this fill in the blank worksheet, students respond to 20 short answer questions by identifying foods that contain large amounts of sugar, carbohydrate, and fruit acids and explaining their effects on the body.
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Similar and Different

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders observe a pair of students standing in front of the class and compare and contrast them using a Venn Diagram using these guidelines: eye color, hair color, older/younger, tallest/shortest, gender, favorite food, favorite...
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Get Supplies

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the organization of a pet owner. The job of a pet owner is to be prepared. The lesson is integrated with math as students play the game of attaining pet supply products and they perform...
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A Fish in Water

For Teachers 1st
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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But I Need This

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders place everything in their desk or back pack onto their desk top. They explain why each item is needed. They receive a set of pictures and write a list of things each person or animal needs to survive. They compare people,...
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Geography: Lesson One

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners 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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How to Use Classroom Animals to Spark Life Science Inquiry

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Use low maintenance classroom pets to get your students engaged in life science inquiry investigations.

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