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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade 1: The Year at Maple Hill Farm

For Teachers 1st
First graders learn about change over the course of a year, investigating and exploring the four seasons and what the changing seasons mean for humans and animals. They learn about animal behavior and patterns during the seasons,...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Animal Farm: Allegory and the Art of Persuasion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan will introduce young scholars to the concept of allegory by using George Orwell's widely read novella, Animal Farm. Through this novel, students will learn what an allegory is, the rhetorical components of an allegory,...
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Article
Shmoop University

Shmoop: Animal Farm Analysis: Literary Devices in Animal Farm

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a literary analysis of Animal Farm by George Orwell using the literary devices in the novel including symbolism, imagery, allegory, setting, point of view, genre, tone, writing style, plot analysis and more.
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Article
Shmoop University

Shmoop: Animal Farm Themes

For Students 9th - 10th
This site lists and discusses the themes in Animal Farm by George Orwell. These include power through leadership and corruption, control over intellectually inferior, pride, lies and deceit, and more.
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Shmoop University

Shmoop: Animal Farm

For Students 9th - 10th
A classic novel, Animal Farm, has captured readers for decades. Read about the main characters, themes and study questions to learn more about the novel in this excellent site.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Ela Animal Farm

For Students 9th - 10th
An eighteen-part learning module with links to texts and slides to use while reading George Orwell's Animal Farm.
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Article
American Institute of Biological Sciences

Action Bioscience: Animal Cloning, Old Mac Donald's Farm Changed

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth look into the potential benefits to animal cloning. This process could provide us with food designed to help fight disease, protect endangered species, enhance livestock, and create opportunity for biomedical research.
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Other

High Ash Farm: Field Study Centre

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a virtual tour of this working hill farm in Peak District National Park in Derbyshire, England. See photographs of what goes on there and try an interactive quiz.
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PBS

Pbs: A World of Stories: Old Man Juan Had a Farm/viejo Juan Tenia Una Granja

For Students K - 1st Standards
Listen for different animal sounds in this Spanish version of "Old McDonald Had a Farm." The nursery rhyme is available in English and Spanish.
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Primary
University of Florida

Baldwin Library: Bird and Animal Series: Domestic Animals by Mc Loughlin Bros.

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Bird and Animal Series: Domestic Animals by McLoughlin Bros. (1886), a nonfiction book of illustrated stories about cats, dogs, and farm animals.
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Other

Illinois Department of Agriculture: Farm Animals and Their Babies

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Click on the farm animals to learn what each animal baby is called. Includes animal sounds, and photos of mothers with their babies. Requires QuickTime Player for audio feature.
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Other

Voice Thread: Baby Farm Animals

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Narrated slideshow introduces viewers to a variety of baby animals and answers such questions as, what are baby goats called? what are baby cows called? what are baby swans called? [Registered users can comment on each slide, via text,...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Fun on the Farm

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
During this activity, students will navigate the Internet to learn about farm animals. Students will take a virtual field trip with the teacher to explore a farm. They will also visit a website and explore farm animals and their sounds.
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A-Z Animals

A Z Animals: Animal Facts: Pig (Sus Scrofa Scrofa)

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides photographs and a fact card about the domestic pig. Discusses their origin, how humans use them, physical characteristics, diet, and facts about their feet and teeth.
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Lesson Plan
McGraw Hill

Glencoe Literature Online: Animal Farm Study Guide [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In addition to the traditional chapter questions, this 22 page pdf study guide offers background information, and exercises for connecting Orwell's work to other pieces of writing.
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Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: Old Goats in Transition

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about pre-historic animal domestication, something that that has been studied rigorously by scientists, but not yet fully understood. The bottom half of this article focuses on goat domestication as it was practiced in southwestern...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Animal Farm With Activstudio Tips

For Teachers 6th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart supports the study of George Orwell's book Animal Farm.
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Article
Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Habitat Network: On a Farm

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the effect that agricultural advancement has had on bird diversity in those environments.
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Other

Covington Independent Public Schools: A Worm Farm

For Students K - 2nd
Students will observe firsthand that worms change organic waste into soil. Directions and a cut/paste worksheet are included in this lesson.
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Other

Farm and Food Care Ontario

For Students 1st - 9th
Take yourself on a real-life expedition of Canadian farms and food processing facilities from the comfort of your home.
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Other

Literature Network: George Orwell

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a biography of George Orwell, pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair, (1903-1950) and author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell is quoted throughout the biography which helps to understand his political reasoning in the...
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Handout
Agriculture in the Classroom

Natl Agriculture in the Classroom: A Look at North Carolina Agriculture [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about the agricultural industry in North Carolina. Find bulleted facts on the climate of North Carolina, its soil, farm animals, and crop production. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
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Website
Shmoop University

Shmoop: George Orwell: Biography

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides a biography of George Orwell, the pen name for Eric Arthur Blair, author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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US Department of Energy

U.s. Department of Energy: Wind Program: How Does a Wind Turbine Work?

For Students 9th - 10th
This animated illustration shows how a wind turbine can generate electricity for homes and communities.

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