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- Grade Range
- 3rd - 4th
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Students examine expenses associated with pet ownership. In groups, children are assigned a specific pet. Partners research expenses associated with caring for the animal. They create a poster illustrating the pet's needs and expenses associated with them. Posters are shared with the class and costs of pet ownership are compared. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 4th
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Students engage in a research activity of looking at the job of a professional that would be needed for the care of a pet. They use the internet to write a description of a professional and extension activities are included in the lesson. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 2nd
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Students participate in a lesson that has the primary objective of making them aware of how to take care of a pet. The lesson integrates number sentences from Math to give students practice acquainting good care with addition and negative care to subtraction. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students complete internet based research on pet care in order to prepare a written and oral presentation for the class. They examine the life span, environment, food and grooming of the pet they chose to research. They complete the associated research worksheet as they prepare their research. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 4th
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Students work in groups to compose their own "Duty of Care" for pets and make their own individual list from this discussion and illustrate it with drawing or images taken from magazines, websites or newspapers. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 8th
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Students create a proposal for either a classroom pet or a household pet. Proposals include the estimated cost of a pet and their supplies as well as a written contract for the care of the pet. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students investigate a problem that has been proposed by the principal of a school. They are to decide which class pet is most suitable for the school. Students conduct research using a variety of resources and then participate in class discussion. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 3rd
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Students participate in an after school program that promotes making decisions, getting along with others, decision-making, and being responsible. A pet survey is administered along with a variety of pet riddles with the students. They experience an animal relay and discuss their own pets at home. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 1st
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Students explore the concept of responsibility and commitment necessary for pet ownership by having a classroom "virtual" pet. They research an animal on the internet, create it and chart the care and feeding of the pet on the computer. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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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 lesson, they are given different responsiblities to do every day to care for the computer. Full Review »