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How to Use Classroom Animals to Spark Life Science Inquiry

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Use low maintenance classroom pets to get your students engaged in life science inquiry investigations.
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Pets: Stuffed Animal Day

For Teachers K
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 - 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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Introducing Working Animals

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students identify ways humans and animals work together. In this animal welfare lesson plan, students read the text Hanni and Beth: Safe and Sound and define the term "working animals." Students investigate working animals by visiting...
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The Five Classes of Vertebrates

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
What a terrific lesson! Learners discuss the animal kingdom, and classify them as vertebrates and invertebrates. They also identify them as fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. There is even a taxonomic breakdown of popular...
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Webcams in the Classroom: Animal Inquiry and Observation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Boost observational skills with an inquiry-based lesson plan that takes scholars on a virtual field trip. With help from webcams, learners observe animals in a zoo or aquarium. Observations go into a journal and a discussion is held to...
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LIONS and TIGERS and BEARS. . .Oh My! Animals of Connecticut and the World

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students identify and list the different types of pets owned by the children in the class. They graph the total number of each type of pet owned. They draw or cut-out a picture of an animal. Using the materials listed above, the children...
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The Best Pet

For Teachers K - 1st
Students listen to the story , Pet Show, and discuss the variety of animals that were in the show. The class recalls the animals and practice sounding out the names. Then they decide which animal should receive the best of show ribbon.
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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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Where Do Animals Live?

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Pupils c;assify where pets live and where wild animals live and comprehend the differences. They investigate what kinds of homes pets and wild animals need. Students bring in a stuffed animal or puppet from home and match their animal...
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Unleashed: Poems by Pets

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students create a poem from the first person perspective of a pet. In this Writing/Poetry lesson, students read a short poem from, Unleashed. Students brainstorm what their animal may say. Students write a poem using the first...
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Pet Overpopulation: Spay or Neuter Song

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the importance of spaying animals through a song.  In this spaying and neutering lesson, students calculate how animal numbers get larger quickly.  Students recognize the importance of taking good care of home...
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Animals!

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this animals learning exercise, students watch a video on animals, label animals, complete a crossword, fill in the blanks to sentences, and more. Students complete 4 activities.
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Pets - Stuffed Animal Day

For Teachers K
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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Wild or Tame?

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars explore wild and domestic animals. In this animal lesson plan, students define wild and domestic. Young scholars are shown pictures of animals and choose if they are wild or domestic. Students name pets and name their wild...
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Fable of the Fainting Goat

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore animal life by reading children stories in class. In this goat fable instructional activity, 2nd graders read several books which describe the different myths and folklore about goats. Students identify the needs...
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Are you an Animal Sleuth?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students define and identify both wild and domestic animals as well as mammals and non-mammals. In this animal safety lesson, students distinguish between animals that can carry rabies from those that cannot. Students use stuffed animals...
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What Is Happening To My Species?

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners select and research an animal that lives in the rainforest of Manu, Peru. They watch and discuss a video, create masks and costumes to role-play various rainforest animals, conduct research, and write a short story of their...
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4-H Companion Animal Project

For Students 4th - 8th
In this 4-H animal science worksheet, students will complete several activities about companion animals. Students will learn about feline feelings, dog breeds and their different groups, rabbit vocabulary and ideas for service projects...
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Read Aloud Lesson Plan: Water for One, Water for Everyone

For Teachers K
Students listen to a read aloud about African animals as they access a watering hole. They discuss the characteristics of Africa such as the temperature, it distance from the students, and lifestyle of the animals. They talk about how...
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Where Do I Live?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
For this social studies worksheet, students learn about the proper homes for different pets. Students match the pictures of the cat, bunny and fish to the appropriate home.
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Safety With Animals

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students identify the proper way to care for animals. In this animal welfare lesson plan, students discuss the fact that animals have feelings. Students read an article included in the lesson plant about animal feelings and ways to be...
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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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Zoo Animals

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify different types of animals and their habitats. They compare natural habitats to habitats. They use Internet resources to gather information on animals.

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