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- 6th - 8th
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Students culminate the Dog Salmon Unit by writing a one page paper on their reflections and experience. They synthesize the Athabascan terms for the salmon parts. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students, in groups, research the controversial issue of dog sled racing. They evaluate websites for bias, document all sources and present their conclusions in a non-biased style being careful to consider both sides of the issue. Full Review »
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- 7th - 8th
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Students handle a therapy dog and take the school therapy dog to a local nursing home several times over the course of the school year. They complete a culminating project that focuses either on the entire experience or a specific resident. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students read part of the story "Balto, the Dog Who Saved Nome". They make predictions about the story ending and identify the picture clues and textual information they used to form their predictions. They discuss the story's ending. Full Review »
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- 3rd
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Students make predictions using the book, "Balto, The Dog Who Saved Nome." They examine a graphic organizer used for making predictions, listen to the story, explore websites about the true story of Balto, and write a new story about Balto using magazine pictures. Full Review »
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- 4th - 5th
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Students look up information about the different breeds of dogs. They can do this through books about dogs or on the Internet. Then, they classify the dogs into small, medium, and large breeds. They take three pages of notebook book and use one page for each group. They write the different breeds under the group they belong. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students explore types of studied behavior animals acquire. Using a Smart Board file, students simulate rewarding a studied behavior. To further reinforce studied behaviors, students play "Pavlov's Dog" on an internet website. Students brainstorm and discuss examples of studied behaviors. Full Review »
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- 1st - 2nd
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Students listen as the /sh/ sound is modeled and discover the sound as it appears in the words "sheep", "fish", and "ship". They then play a secret game with a magic code placing the correct dog with its bone. Once all the words are connected, they review and practice writing the /sh/ digraph words on their paper. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students discuss why dogs are often used as characters on television and in movies. They are asked to name some dog "stars" of TV and screen. Students research dog breeds from the list they created in class. They research when the breed of dog was discovered, the qualities and traits for which it is known. Full Review »
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- 11th - 12th
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Students explore various approaches to "solving" the problem of maximizing the area of a rectangle space with a fixed perimeter in the context of a farmer's "dog pen". They complete a worksheet independently to summarize the lesson. Full Review »
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