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The Taming of the Few

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students consider the cultural, historical, and social implications of domesticating animals as pets. They create informative posters of various animals, illustrating their histories as pets.
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Pet Mania

For Students Pre-K - 6th
In this English worksheet, learners 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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Pets: Merit Badge

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this pets worksheet, students use their workbook to answer short answer questions about pets and pet care. Students complete 4 questions total to get their merit badge.
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Good Answers for Pet Problems

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students examine qualities of pet owners. In this animal welfare lesson, students discuss the reasons people give up their pets and the problems that pet relinquishment may cause. Students create posters that promote positive pet ownership.
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Safe Pets, Safe Kids

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students explore the concept of pet safety. For this pet safety lesson, students discuss dangerous objects and settings for humans and pets. Students find or draw pictures of these objects/settings and create a bulletin board for display. 
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Pets are for Life

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Young scholars research the life spans of several animals and create bar graphs comparing this data. Students, as a class, discuss the long term commitment of owning a pet. Young scholars imagine how their lives would be different if...
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Responsible Pet Ownership

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students 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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Science Quiz on Dogs

For Students 4th - 5th
In this science quiz on dogs activity, students answer ten questions about dogs before scrolling down to see the correct answers.
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Pets Word Search

For Students 1st - 5th
For this word puzzle worksheet, students locate and circle 18 pet-related words in a word search puzzle. A word bank is provided.  
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Are You an Animal Safety Sleuth

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this animal safety lesson, 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 school. grocery stores,...
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Canine Companions

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students research and complete activities about dogs. In this dog activity, students read information about dogs to examine their traits, behavior, language, characteristics, and genetics. Students take a quiz about the information.
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Pets All Around

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students 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. Students answer questions to brainstorm things that pets need. Students complete an...
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What Would We Do?

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students develop an emergency plan for their pets. In this animal welfare instructional activity, students discuss how to keep their pets safe in an emergency and create pet emergency kits.
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Common Pets Word Search

For Students 1st - 5th
For this common pets word search worksheet, students locate the 11 pets listed in the provided word bank within the word puzzle.
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Cats as Pets- Online Interactive

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this reading comprehension activity, 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 activity.
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Pets - A Mini-Book

For Students Pre-K - K
In this pets mini-book worksheet sets, students make a book, either in color or black and white, that includes names of pets such as rabbit, turtle, dog, cat, bird, fish, and hamster. They see lines under the picture of each pet but...
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All About My Pet

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this personal information worksheet, students fill in the blanks with information about their pets. They tell what their pet is, its name, and what they like best about their pet. They see a black line pictures of pets at the top of...
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Pets

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this printing practice worksheet, students learn to print in DeNelian style the names of 6 common household pets. Students trace the dotted example and then form their own words on the lines.
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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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4-H Rabbit Activity Page

For Students 6th - 8th
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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Writing
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My Pet!

For Students K - 2nd
Furry friends are a big part of kids' lives, and here, they can be immortalized in pictures and stories. Give your students a chance to draw and color their pets - real or pretend - and then write a short sentence about them.
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Mischievous Cat Drawing

For Students K - 1st
In this coloring worksheet, students examine a black line drawing of a mischievous looking cat. Students color the picture which has the title "Animals."
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Pet Accordion Book

For Students K - 1st
In this animal activity, students create a mini-book about animals that are pets. Students cut and paste the animal to the correct page in the book.
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Pets

For Students K - 1st
In this printing practice instructional activity, students color the pictures of pets and trace the letters of the word. Students cut and staple the 25 pages to make a book.