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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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Goldfish Bowl

For Teachers 1st - 5th
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

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
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?

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
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

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
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

For Teachers K - 2nd
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

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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

For Teachers K - 4th
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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Teach With Movies

Title: "The Yearling" - Topics: Literature/U.S.; U.S./1865-1913 & Florida

For Teachers 7th - 12th
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

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
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

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
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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Fabulous Felines

For Teachers 4th - 6th
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

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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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The Tale of the Feral - Care and Multiplication of Feral Cats

For Teachers 5th - 8th
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

For Teachers K - 3rd
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

For Teachers 4th - 7th
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?

For Teachers 9th
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...
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Canine Companions

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students become pet "safety officers." In this pet safety lesson, students examine pet hazards as they complete activity worksheets and discuss household hazards to dogs.
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Are You an Animal Safety Sleuth

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this animal safety instructional activity, students brain-storm ways to be kind and safe with animals throughout the year.  Students create a Kind Calendar for Animals in art class and distribute copies to other classes in the...
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A Lesson about Animals for ESL Students: Use or Abuse?

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students discuss animal care using proper phrases of agreement and objection. They role play and make presentations on their animal studies.
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Animal Explorations

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners discover compassion for animals. In this animal lesson, students go to a local animal welfare organization and help out. They reflect on compassion and how to make changes in the lives of animals. 
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The Little Red Hen

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students analyze a classic children's story by discussing it with their peers.  In this reading comprehension lesson, students read The Little Red Hen, and discuss ways the hen takes care of his responsibilities.  Students...
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Singing for the Animals

For Teachers K - 5th
Students examine the correct attitudes and poster for a concert. In this "Singing for Animals" lesson, students created charts to diagram information about the homeless animals they were singing for. Students used correct diction and...
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Leadership

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students list the qualities of a good leader as well as the various roles of group members. They discuss how good leaders help make the group more successful and identify people in their community who are good leaders. Students offer...