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Are You an Animal Safety Sleuth

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this animal safety instructional activity, students brain-storm ways to be kind and safe with animals throughout the year.  Students create a Kind Calendar for Animals in art class and distribute copies to other classes in the...
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Owning a Dog: Reading Comprehension

For Students 5th - 6th
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read the five paragraph essay about the effects of children owning a dog. Then they answer 10 questions to indicate comprehension of the selection.
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Who's Responsible?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students write short stories. In this defining words activity, students look up the meanings of responsible and irresponsible and write their own definitions for the two words. Students write two short stories about a responsible...
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The Roots of Good Character: Kindness

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
For this character education worksheet, students examine situations where they could show kindness. Students also learn the word forms: kind, kindly, kindness. Students read 6 illustrated situations and place the proper form of "kind" in...
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Animal Explorations

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners discover compassion for animals. In this animal lesson, students go to a local animal welfare organization and help out. They reflect on compassion and how to make changes in the lives of animals. 
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A Trip To the Animal Fair

For Teachers K - 5th
Students share their experiences they have had with animals. Using photographs of their own pets, they create a booklet out of construction paper in which they identify the pets needs. They also compare and contrast what they need to...
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Math Maven's Mysteries

For Students 4th - 5th
In these story problem worksheets, students read the story problem 'The Case of the Virtual Pet 2000' and use the information within the story to help them find which character had enough time to take the toy. Students use subtraction to...
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Charlotte's Web

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students compare the differences in insects and spiders and design a worksheet that teaches the differences. Students record on chart organizing the information about the pet, its food, habitat, exercise, and other ways to care for...
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Animals in Japan

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students compare and contrast common animals children love and have as pets in Japan and America in this early elementary lesson. The culminating project is an original work of art by each student depicting an animal of their choice.
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Keeping Goldfish Quiz

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this online quiz worksheet, students answer a set of multiple choice questions about taking care of goldfish. Page has a link to answers.
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Safety With Animals

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars investigate and become aware of when a dog is about to bite. In this safety and dogs lesson, students discuss dog bites and when they occur. Young scholars complete a related worksheet and create a bulletin board about...
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Help Others

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars share the value of helping others through reading and art activities. In this Clifford and the Big Storm lesson plan, students read the story, discuss courage, and create a gallery of heroes.
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Where Have All the Endangered Gone?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners explore animals that are endangered. They choose an endangered animal that they would like to keep from becoming extinct. Students create a persuasive presentation to persuade someone to understand why they feel keeping their...
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Dogs, Dogs, and More Dogs!

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this humane education worksheet, students read facts to educate students about the number of puppies produced by one unspayed dog in a year. Students solve eight math problems to total the number of puppies born to one unspayed dog in...
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Cats, Cats, and More Cats!

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this humane education worksheet, students read the word problems, find the total number of kittens born in one year because of one unspayed female cat, and draw a conclusion about the importance of prevention methods. Students solve...
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What's Being Done?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore the concept of animal welfare. In this philanthropy lesson plan, students examine legislation that supports animals in their state as well as the role of the  American Society for the Prevention of...
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit

For Teachers K - 1st
Wow! Here is a most-impressive series of lessons and activities that revolve around the classic story, The Tale of Peter Rabbit. The purpose of the lessons are to provide an agricultural theme in the reading, writing, and science...
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Hand Washing

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Mostly discussion, this lesson explores the importance and methods of hand washing. A few true stories of community illnesses spread by the neglect of washing hands serve as an anticipatory set. The activity is most memorable if you are...
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How to Say “I Ruff You”

For Students 7th Standards
Who says you need a human to be your valentine on Valentine's Day? Give your dog-loving readers an inspiring perspective on how a sister givdes her brother a valentine from the family dog. They then answer 10 questions thatd involve...
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The Magic School Bus and the Missing Tooth

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
We chew with our teeth every day, but how much do we really know about them? Allow Ms. Frizzle to teach your kids a thing or two about teeth. Kids complete a prereading exercise, read the book, and respond to several prompts about the...
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Teach With Movies

Title: "The Yearling" - Topics: Literature/U.S.; U.S./1865-1913 & Florida

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Life in the Florida swamps after the Civil War comes alive in the 1946 film adaptation of Majorie Kinnan Rawlings’s The Yearling. The film of this powerful coming-of-age story, filled with love and loss, can be used with or without a...
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Is it alive?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Kids in grades K-2 increase their logical reasoning and visual discrimination skills by determining which things shown are alive. They use the criteria that all living things move on their own to mark each image as alive or not. 
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A Response to 9-1-1

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
When you get hurt, who are the people who help you? Learn about first responders, support services, and public health with a reading passage. Kids read the informational text and answer reading comprehension questions about the...
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Turtle Talk

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners watch a Powerpoint Presentation about turtles. They explain that there are 3 types of turtles and where each type lives. They describe a turtle's body and state some things that turtles eat.

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