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Kids Can Help

For Teachers 4th - 5th
For this helping worksheet, students read about ways they can help pets affected by Hurricane Katrina. These include raising money to support the HSUS Disaster Relief Fund, by holding a car wash, bake sale, or auction.
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Fabulous Felines

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore basic needs through discovering that pets and people need very similar things. They will play matching games, sing songs, read books, and discuss the needs of people and animals.
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Costs of Providing for animals

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the necessary costs of animals shelters and taking care of one pet. In this providing for animals lesson plan, students calculate the costs of keeping a pet. Students understand the need for outside funding for animal...
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Your Dog's Health

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students investigate pet health. In this dog care instructional activity, 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...
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Canine Companions

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students become pet "safety officers." In this pet safety lesson plan, students examine pet hazards as they complete activity worksheets and discuss household hazards to dogs.
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Accepting Responsibility

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify the responsibilities involved in owning a pet at home. They listen to the story and watch the movie "Arthur's Pet Business," discuss what they are responsible for at home with their pets, and in small groups...
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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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A Lesson about Animals for ESL Students: Use or Abuse?

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Learners discuss animal care using proper phrases of agreement and objection. They role play and make presentations on their animal studies.
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A Home for a Cricket

For Teachers 1st
First graders build a habitat for crickets after studying animal survival needs. They care for and observe the crickets in the classroom habitat.
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When the Fly Flew In by Lisa Westberg Peters

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
The students will listen to the story When the Fly Flew In, and be able to identify the main idea of the story and many of the (supporting) details. Students will also develop an appreciation for the humor and illustrations. After...
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Children's Literature Across the Curriculum Ideas-How Dogs Really Work!

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students read How Dogs Really Work! by Alan Snow. They complete a variety of cross-curricular activities surrounding the study of dogs as pets. Included are reading, art, math, science, writing, social studies, and library connections.
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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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Father Knows Best, Write a Father's Day Letter

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students write a Father's Day letter. In this friendly letter writing lesson, students brainstorm a list of parent responsibilities, then write three specific ways their fathers care for them. Students share learning experiences they...
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A Fish in Water

For Teachers 1st
First graders, with a goldfish as a class pet, practice the proper way to care for a pet and have responsibilities when it comes to taking care of the fish. As a class, the teacher reads the book "Fish Out of Water".
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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. In 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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The Great Smelly, Slobbery, Small-Tooth Dog

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Read the story The Great Smelly, Slobbery, Small-Tooth Dog: A Folktale from Great Britain by Margaret Read MacDonald and choose from multiple activities to learn about the tale's theme—kindness. With so many options, your kind kids will...
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Beastly Careers

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders discuss careers related to pets and animals. They talk about their own pets and investigate animal careers that interest them. They write a paper and draw a picture of their choice career.
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Responsibility

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders make posters.  In this good citizens lesson, 2nd graders read Arthur's Pet Business, discuss the examples of good citizenship, share their responsibilities, and make responsibility posters.
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What is a Friend? A Multimedia Approach to Comprehension

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify and discuss the characteristics of a good friend. They read the book "Just My Friend" by Mercer Mayer, and watch the videos "My Wet Pet" and "The Berenstein Bears: Road Race." Students identify the friend...
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Wild or Tame?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore wild and domestic animals. In this animal lesson, students define wild and domestic. Students are shown pictures of animals and choose if they are wild or domestic. Students name pets and name their wild counterpart....
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Respect for Animals

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discuss importance of acting responsibly when caring for pets, reflect upon quote, "All Living Beings Have the Right to Respect and Kindness," read story Anastasia Wants a Rabbit and answer comprehension questions, role play...
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Animals and Their Needs

For Teachers K
Students identify the characteristics of living things and examine objects to see if they are living. They identify the needs of living things, in particular of animals and animal babies. They discuss how to care for pets.
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An Analytical Chemist, a Biochemist, an Animal Scientist, and an Oncologist Walk into a Lab...No Joke

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
Oncology presents multiple opportunities for research and the collaboration of many different types of scientists. Scholars divide into groups and research the history of mass spectrometry, polarity/non-polarity,...
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Animals Matter

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore philanthropy. In this character education lesson, students define and give examples of philanthropy. Students listen to the story A Symphony of Whales and describe how the characters helped the whales. Students discuss...

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