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Lesson Plan
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Rat Round Up

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students build a device that captures and carries a pet rat safely back to its cage with out "harming" the rat or themselves. They build and experiment with wind-up or battery operated rat cat toys after predicting the outcome of their...
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What is a Pet?

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Learners define what a pet is and what it needs to be healthy and happy. They explore pets through the use of of puppets and/or stuffed animals and discover what a pet needs by identifying items in a "pet bag."
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Literacy Activity: The Perfect Pet

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students develop their listening skills as they listen to the book The Perfect Pet. In this reading lesson, students listen to the book, and then talk about the pets they have. Then they make a graph as a class of all their pets.
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Rat-ional Pet Concerns

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore a recent salmonella outbreak in young students linked to pet rodents. They create pamphlets to help assist and inform pet owners about the disease and necessary health precautions.
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Michigan State University

All About Rodents

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Get to the know the common house mouse and the Norway rat with an activity that reinforces reading comprehension skills. Scholars read a three-page document detailing key information about mammals, specifically rodents, and use their...
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Worksheet
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Cats as Pets- Online Interactive

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a short text about cats as pets and learn about cat ownership in America. Students complete 8 sentences with information from the text. This is an online interactive worksheet.
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Where is the Pet?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students identify rhyming words and explore the usage of spatial words. In this Where Is The Pet lesson, students listen to a poem, repeat the rhymes within the poem, list various of additional rhyming words that can replace the words in...
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Worksheet
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Tables

For Students 1st - 2nd
Can you read this table? Learners begin to comprehend data analysis through examining two simple tables and answering comprehension questions. The first gives characteristics about three animals in yes-or-no format (i.e. "eats insects,"...
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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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Interactive
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English Exercises: The Family Wants a Pet

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this online interactive English worksheet, students respond to 7 fill in the blank questions that require them to use English vocabulary appropriately. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Activity
American Psychological Association

Psychology Goes to Madison Avenue

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
As part of a study of well-known psychologists, class members create a name, a business logo, an advertisement for TV, online, radio, or print, and a pamphlet for the business run by one of the psychologists on a provided list. An...
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Activity
American Museum of Natural History

Feed the Birds

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
What kinds of birds are common in the area? Young scientists use household supplies to create bird feeders. They then document the birds that come to their feeders by keeping journals. 
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Activity
American Museum of Natural History

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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Aaa! A monster

For Teachers K - 1st
Students practice the strategy of phonemic awareness to become better fluent readers. They grasp the concept of short vowels and identify the sound of /a/ in reading and spelling words. A letterbox is utilized within this lesson along...
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Worksheet
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Hunt the Fact Monster Hunt #26

For Students 4th - 5th
In this internet research instructional activity, students use the Fact Monster search engine to find the answers to ten unrelated questions.
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Sounding Out CVCE Words

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore vowels and consonants by participating in a flash card activity. In this phonetics lesson, 1st graders discuss the difference between short and long vowels and identify them within a story told to them by their...
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Interactive
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At the Zoo

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this at the zoo worksheet, students watch a YouTube video that uses sign language to express a song about animals at the zoo. They use drop down menus to fill in the blanks to the lyrics of the song. They mark the proper picture of 8...
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Interactive
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Fearsome Creatures 1

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this wild animals activity, students fill in the blanks or choose the correct words to sentences about wild animals. Students complete 47 blanks.
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Lesson Plan
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Scales, Scutes, and Skins

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students identify the various adaptations of reptiles and amphibians. After distinguishing between reptiles and amphibians, students discuss the ways in which their adaptations aid in their survival. They participate in a hands on...
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EPA Pesticides Reduction

For Teachers 8th - 9th
Young scholars examine the effects of pesticides on the environment and bugs. They answer questions as an assessment.
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Worksheet
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Learning about Snakes- Non-Fiction Reading Comprehension Worksheet

For Students 3rd
In this snakes non-fiction reading comprehension worksheet, 3rd graders read a one page selection about the characteristics of snakes. They complete a table which compares snakes to mammals, and fill in the blanks in 5 questions using...
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Interactive
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Have Got -- Five Tasks

For Students Pre-K - 6th
In this English worksheet, students use forms of have got. Students choose the correct form of have got for several sentences. They also create negative sentences and use short form.
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Lesson Plan
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Rhyme Time

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore phonemes through rhymes. They discuss nursery rhymes and rhyming words. Students read "Jack and Jill" and discuss the rhyming words in the nursery rhyme. They play a rhyming game and identify words that rhyme.
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Worksheet
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Word Lists

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this vocabulary learning exercise, students read 5 different word lists. The word lists are divided by sounds. For example, one word list contains the sh, ch, th, and ng sounds.