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Pet Overpopulation
Students examine pet overpopulation. In this animal welfare lesson, students discuss the causes and effects of pet overpopulation. Students color in an animal page and identify the responsibilities of owning a pet.
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Help! There Are Too Many Dogs and Cats and Not Enough Homes!
Students discuss the importance of spaying and neutering pets. In this animal care instructional activity, students create a make believe animal shelter. They discuss what happens to animals in the shelter and if no one wants to take...
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Order of Adjectives: Write a Sentence
Knowing the parts of speech can make you a better writer! Young grammarians use sets of two and three adjectives to write engaging sentences, taking care to use the adjectives in the correct order.
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Good Answers for Pet Problems
Students examine qualities of pet owners. In this animal welfare instructional activity, students discuss the reasons people give up their pets and the problems that pet relinquishment may cause. Students create posters that promote...
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Where the Red Fern Grows: A 4th Grade Literary Focus Unit
Fourth graders explore the human and animal connection along with the idea that death is a part of the life cycle. They read "Where the Red Fern Grows." Students examine the feelings and emotions surrounding death and they discover the...
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Similar and Different
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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Goldfish Bowl
Students discover proper pet care by creating a home for a fish. In this pet responsibility lesson plan, students create a goldfish bowl by cutting a plastic jug in half and decorating it with markers and stickers. Students...
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Looking After Pets
Students work in groups to compose their own "Duty of Care" for pets and make their own individual list from this discussion and illustrate it with drawing or images taken from magazines, websites or newspapers.
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Are You Ready for a Dog?
Students explore the role of pet ownership. In this pet responsibilities instructional activity, students discuss the responsibilities of pet ownership as well as the costs associated with it. Students discuss methods of adopting dogs.
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Pets All Around
Learners talk about their pets. In this pets vs. wild animals lesson, students discuss their pets and how pets are different from animals in the wild. Learners answer questions to brainstorm things that pets need. Students complete an...
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Expressing Emotions Through Art Lesson 1: Everybody Shows They Care
Learners examine how artists depict the idea of caring in works of art. They create drawings of themselves that use the principles of design to express their feelings of caring for something.
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Dogfighting Hurts Animals
Students discuss dogfights and relate caring for a baby to caring for their animal. In this dogfighting lesson, students view video about dogs forced to fight and relate to parenting skills. Students become familiar with...
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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.
Teach With Movies
Title: "The Yearling" - Topics: Literature/U.S.; U.S./1865-1913 & Florida
Life in the Florida swamps after the Civil War comes alive in the 1946 film adaptation of Majorie Kinnan Rawlings’s The Yearling. The film of this powerful coming-of-age story, filled with love and loss, can be used with or without a...
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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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Canine Companions
Pupils identify the responsibilities of being a dog owner. In this animal welfare instructional activity, students list ten important items that a dog needs to live and visit a pet store to calculate the total cost of the items. Pupils...
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4-H Rabbit Activity Page
As part of a unit on animals, learners could use this 4-H activity page on rabbits to explore the care of animals. There are a variety of activity suggestions related to rabbit care.
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Fabulous Felines
Students create a list of pet needs. In this personal responsibility lesson, students discover which items a cat needs in order to survive. Students complete worksheets based on cat ownership.
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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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Be Responsible at School Poster
In this poster worksheet, students read a poster that gives them ways to be responsible while getting ready for and while attending school. They think of times when they have been responsible, how to stay organized, and how to be honest.
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The Tale of the Feral - Care and Multiplication of Feral Cats
Students differentiate between a feral cat and a domesticated cat. For this cat lesson plan, students use the scientific method, calculate averages, solve story problems, and learn how a caretaker can help a feral colony live safely.
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Fabulous Felines: Keeping Cats Safe
Students discover ways to protect their pets. In this animal safety lesson, students role-play as pet "safety officers" and discuss how to make sure cats avoid dangers in the home. Students complete many pet safety worksheets...
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Your Dog's Health
Students investigate pet health. In this dog care lesson, students develop knowledge on how to care for a dog. Students discuss what is needed to keep a dog happy and healthy. Students label pictures of of a dog's visit to the vet.
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Labels: What Do They Mean?
Ninth graders brainstorm words they typically use to label each other, discuss effects of labeling, including reinforcement of stereotypes, and experience potentially harming and limiting effects that labels have by participating in...