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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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Why Not Adopt? Lesson #4
Students discuss the benefits of pet adoption. In this pet lesson plan, students participate in a class discussion on pet adoption, animal shelters and how to care for a pet. They complete worksheets in groups and write about pet...
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Caring for your Zebra Finch
Engage your class with this PowerPoint which was created by a group of 9th graders. It is about caring for a Zebra finch, but this slideshow could be used in many ways. For instance, to start a talk about responsibility and caring...
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Read The Words, Copy The Words
Young writers read ten words, then write them down in boxes down below. This worksheet could be used as a quick in-class assessment to see how your kids are doing with their sight words and with their writing skills. Simple, but...
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Composting
Using 2-liter bottles, junior ecologists create composting tubes in which they place nitrogen-rich and carbon-rich materials. They observe what changes occur over two weeks' time. Provide more specific direction to your class as to what...
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Visit To the Farm
Students research farm animals and write a story based on the research.
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Exploring Animals in Literature
Celebrate Be Kind to Animals Week while teaching empathy and allegory with creature-related texts
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Mealworms
Crawl into the world of the darkling beetle with this scientific investigation. Watch as the insects move through the larval, pupal, and adult stages of life, recording observations along the way. Discuss the necessities of life as young...
National Wildlife Federation
What's Your Habitat?
How are third graders like rabbits? They both live in habitats and require food, water, and shelter to survive! An educational science lesson encourages your learners to think about their own habitats and survival needs, before comparing...
Prestwick House
A Doll’s House
Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House introduced the novel idea that women are independent people, and that their first duty is truly to themselves. Review the important details of the dramatic play with a short crossword puzzle activity.
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Virtual Frog Dissection Kit
Fluffy is one of the most common names for a pet frog. Fluffy, the digitized frog in this dissection kit, opens up quite literally to allow scholars to see what's inside. The basic kit encourages pupils to click on various organs to see...
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Solving Word Problems with Fish
Send your class fishing...for the right answers! Small groups collaborate to create math word problems based on the fish in their classroom aquarium or on the aquarium itself. After all groups determine the answer for their ownproblem,...
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Creating Compassionate Communities
Have you ever lost someone? Middle and high school learners journal about a time they experienced the loss of someone through death, divorce, moving, or another type of change. They share their responses and discuss an article relating...
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Inferences Using Evidence
What is an inference, and how can you use textual evidence to create one? Introduce your developing readers to the world of inferencing with this presentation. Terms are defined, and several examples are shown. The class works together...
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Taking Care of Pets
Students explore pet care. For this pet care lesson, students discuss dogs and cats and read a book about pets. Students invite a veterinarian to class to discuss the topic.
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First Aid Gives Pets a Second Chance
Young scholars demonstrate basic animal first-aid techniques. Students practice these skills on stuffed animals, responding to their injuries promptly. Young scholars work together in groups to practice these new found skills. Students...
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Pinky and Rex and the Just Right Pet
Young scholars engage in reading comprehension activities for the story "Pinky and Rex and the Just Right Pet". In this reading comprehension lesson, students make prediction drawings before reading the story, create new illustrations...
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Dancin' to the Times
Fifth graders work in groups in order to research a specific music era or dance style to share with the class. They have studied different music styles that are included in the lesson and now they have the choice to research one. There...
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Pet Mania
In this English learning exercise, students focus on pets. Students survey their classmates, role play, read short articles, and have a discussion centered around the topic of pets.
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Making the Family Pet an Educational Experience
The family pet can be a way to get students reading, writing, and learning.
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Responsible Pet Ownership
Learners understand the concepts of responsibility and dependency. Students are paired up, one student is blind folded and the other leads on a trust walk which illustrates the concepts of responsibility and dependency.
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Eager to Help
Second graders discover the many ways in which dogs are trained to help people as part of National Pet Week. The class discusses guide dogs for the blind, hearing dogs for those who cannot hear, and therapy dogs for those who are sick...
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We Need More Than Money
Students identify examples of private resources. In this philanthropy lesson, students read the book A Chair for My Mother and identify the private resources the characters used in the text. Students name private resources that can help...
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Measure the Length
Practice measurements with your scholars using this word problem. Because the answer is explained at the bottom of the page, this would work best as an all-class warm up. Cover up the answers until after kids have shared responses. They...