Students consider the cultural, historical, and social implications of domesticating animals as pets. They create informative posters of various animals, illustrating their histories as pets.

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6th - 12th

Students explore a recent salmonella outbreak in young students linked to pet rodents. They create pamphlets to help assist and inform pet owners about the disease and necessary health precautions.

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6th - 12th

Students build a device that captures and carries a pet rat safely back to its cage with out "harming" the rat or themselves. They build and experiment with wind-up or battery operated rat cat toys after predicting the outcome of their designs.

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3rd - 8th

Students examine the characteristics of rodents and mammals and differentiate between rats and mice. They read and discuss an informational handout, fill out the worksheet answers together as a class, and complete a worksheet that compares a house mouse and a Norway Rat.

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3rd - 6th

Students explore how to use a double bar graph by polling other students about their feelings and experiences with pets. They also have the opportunity to think about how pets affect their lives. Students poll their classmates to find out what types of pets they have, how they feel about them and what type of pet they would be if they could be an animal. They graph their findings, using a double bar graph.

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5th - 8th