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Honoring Our Pets During National Pet Week
Recognize National Pet Week with reading and writing activities to celebrate the animals in your pupils' lives.
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Pets & Possessions
Language learners engage in a series of games and activities using pet vocabulary and the verb "have" to show possession or ownership.
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Our Pets
In this graphing worksheet, students survey their classmates about what pets they like. Students record the data in the form of a bar graph. There are 8 choices listed.
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Pet Perspective
Discuss point of view through a familiar medium: your pet! Learners write a story from the perspective of their own or the class pet. Prompts such as "My Family" (or "My Class"), "My Day," and "A Day in the Life of a _________" help...
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Pet Tally
Give the class an opportunity to practice using tally marks as a way to collect data. As you progress through the slide show, learners tally up the number and types of pets they see, they then use their data to create a tally chart....
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Pets: Oh Behave
Students develop an understanding of how innate and learned behaviors and the environment determine behavior. They see how a variety of factors affects our pet's behavior-including species-specific traits, the environment, training, and...
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Looking After Our Pets
Learners explore animal lifestyles by illustrating images. In this pet care lesson, students discuss their own pets and the conditions animals need to survive in both nature or a home. Learners draw snakes and complete an activity sheet...
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What is a Pet?
Students define what a pet is and what it needs to be healthy and happy. They explore pets through the use of of puppets and/or stuffed animals and discover what a pet needs by identifying items in a "pet bag."
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What Is Our Plan?
Learners identify ways to handle pet emergencies. In this animal welfare lesson, students create a list of top ten pet emergency planning tips and checklist. Learners construct an "Pet Emergency Kit."
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From a Pet's Point of View
Learners explore the concept of point of view. For this point of view lesson, students discuss the point of view of a pet and write an imaginative story. Learners then create a power point presetation for the class to view.
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Graphing Statistics & Opinions About Pets
Students explore how to use a double bar graph by polling other students about their feelings and experiences with pets. They also have the opportunity to think about how pets affect their lives. Students poll their classmates to find...
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Keeping Pets Safe in an Emergency
Students discuss what ifs with relation to their pets. In this keeping pets safe lesson, students create lists of pet items needed in case of disasters. Students complete worksheets related to pet safety in emergencies.
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Pets are Popular with U.S. Presidents
Students discuss their pets and read about pets that have lived in the White House. In this current events lesson, the teacher introduces the article with a vocabulary activity and pet survey, then the students read the news article and...
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Pet Overpopulation
Young scholars examine pet overpopulation. In this animal welfare lesson, students discuss the causes and effects of pet overpopulation. Young scholars color in an animal page and identify the responsibilities of owning a pet.
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Pets and People: Needs We Share
Young scholars match pictures of human and pet needs. In this comparison lesson, students describe their morning activities and identify the needs represented by each activity. Young scholars work in groups to find magazine pictures...
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Unleashed: Poems by Pets
Students create a poem from the first person perspective of a pet. In this Writing/Poetry instructional activity, students read a short poem from, Unleashed. Students brainstorm what their animal may say. Students write a poem using the...
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Pets: Stuffed Animal Day
Students bring in their favorite stuffed animals to class, and listen to the book, The Perfect Pet. They develop graphs for their stuffed animals, and create booklets titled, My Pet Book.
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Pets - Stuffed Animal Day
Students listen to Courtney Baker's, "The Perfect Pet," on a day they bring a stuffed animal to school. They graph the types of stuffed animals that their classmates brought to school before answering questions based on the graph. Next,...
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Data Collection
Students write a journal exercise that relates to pets. They collect information from each other in order to practice making and interpreting bar graphs. They Continue building different kinds of graphs with the group.
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Keeping Our Pets Safe in an Emergency
Learners participate in a service learning project to benefit the members and animals in their community. In this animal welfare lesson, students review emergency preparedness. Learners discuss animal safety in an emergency. Students...
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Responsible Pet Ownership
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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Our Special Planet Earth
Students explore what is special about our planet. They explore the various climates that are found on the planet Earth. Students create an advertisement to convince people why their favorite environment would be the best place to visit.
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Keeping Our Pets Safe In An Emergency
Students fill out worksheets that teach them how to prepare for emergency situations and how to enable animal safety in emergency situations. In this emergency lesson plan, students talk about different kinds of emergencies and how they...
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Our Natural Resources
Your class will learn about natural resources and man-made items and differentiate between them. They chart resources from seven pictures and explain how each natural resource is used.