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Animal Rights Vs. Animal Welfare - Understanding the Issue
Students explore the difference between animal rights and animal welfare. They take a field trip to a farm to explore the producing animals for human use. After researching and collecting information from animal welfare/rights...
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Hide and Seek
Students explore animal characteristics by creating a poster presentation in class. In this animal habitat instructional activity, students visit the local zoo and identify which habitats certain animals are most comfortable in. Students...
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Presenting a Point of View.
Students see both sides of the argument, positive things (pros) and negative things (cons) for one of three issues: 1) Wearing of school uniform, 2) Need for school rules, 3) Hunting wild animals (foxes etc). 4) Keeping animals in...
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Take A Walk On The Wildside
Students study big cats in a variety of lessons included in this unit.
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Where Do You Live?
Second graders study and compare rural, suburban, and urban communities. They play a board game, read books about communities, and complete several other activities regarding the different types of communities. Several extension and...
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Endangered Species Scavenger Hunt
Seventh graders gain a better understanding of endangered species. This lesson requires a field trip to the North Carolina Zoological park. At the park, 7th graders use a worksheet imbedded in this plan to identify and categorize the...