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Responsibility
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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Pet Overpoulation: Fact or Fiction
Students examine the benefits of spaying and neutering animals. For this animal welfare lesson, students define the terms "spaying" and "neutering." Students listen to a lecture about the benefits of spaying and neutering and complete a...
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Responsibility: Caring for Classroom Virtual Pets
Students define the term "responsibility". As a class, they participate in voting on different ideas presented to them and develop a graph showing the results. They use the internet to virtually take care of the adopted pet of the class.
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Why Not Adopt? Lesson #4
Students discuss the benefits of pet adoption. In this pet instructional activity, students participate in a class discussion on pet adoption, animal shelters and how to care for a pet. They complete worksheets in groups and write about...
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Canine Companions
Students identify the responsibilities of being a dog owner. In this animal welfare lesson, students list ten important items that a dog needs to live and visit a pet store to calculate the total cost of the items. Students visit a local...
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Fabulous Felines
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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Help! There Are Too Many Dogs and Cats and Not Enough Homes!
Students discuss the importance of spaying and neutering pets. In this animal care lesson, students create a make believe animal shelter. They discuss what happens to animals in the shelter and if no one wants to take them home.
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Where the Red Fern Grows: A 4th Grade Literary Focus Unit
Fourth graders explore the human and animal connection along with the idea that death is a part of the life cycle. They read "Where the Red Fern Grows." Students examine the feelings and emotions surrounding death and they discover the...
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Care For Your Classroom Computer
Students discover the proper way to care for their computers at school. As a class, they use the Internet to view a website on how to care for pets and relate it to their classroom computer. To end the instructional activity, they are...
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Expressing Emotions Through Art Lesson 1: Everybody Shows They Care
Students examine how artists depict the idea of caring in works of art. They create drawings of themselves that use the principles of design to express their feelings of caring for something.
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Fabulous Felines: Keeping Cats Safe
Students discover ways to protect their pets. For this animal safety lesson, students role-play as pet "safety officers" and discuss how to make sure cats avoid dangers in the home. Students complete many pet safety...
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Dogfighting Hurts Animals
Middle schoolers discuss dogfights and relate caring for a baby to caring for their animal. In this dogfighting lesson plan, students view video about dogs forced to fight and relate to parenting skills. Middle schoolers...
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Canine Companions
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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Your Dog's Health
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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A Lesson about Animals for ESL Students: Use or Abuse?
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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The Little Red Hen
Students analyze a classic children's story by discussing it with their peers. In this reading comprehension activity, students read The Little Red Hen, and discuss ways the hen takes care of his responsibilities. Students...
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Similar and Different
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
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
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
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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Respect for Animals
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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Mapping Animal Behavior
Students discuss the value of sampling in science. They, in groups, map cricket movement in response to various stimuli and graph their results.
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Safety With Animals
Students identify the proper way to care for animals. For this animal welfare lesson, students discuss the fact that animals have feelings. Students read an article included in the lesson plant about animal feelings and ways to be gentle...
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Fish Activities
In this fish activity worksheet, students learn a counting rhyme about fish. They then discuss the best way to care for fish and they learn 4 different types of fish. On the second page, students count lines of fish and color them a...