How much food do you think your pet eats compared to other kinds of pets? In this experiment you will compare the food intake of your family pets to find out which pet eats more for its body weight.

Learn what you need to do to keep your pets healthy, to keep yourself safe from rabies, and to treat animal bites and scratches.

A learning module that begins with "Pet Rocks," accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher and student accounts. Text...

A learning module that begins with the poem "First Pet" by Emma Bartley, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online through free teacher...

Could your pet be making your asthma worse? Find out more in this article for kids.

Brief and compassionate guidance for coping with the death of a pet.

[Free Registration/Login Required] During this MEA simulation, kindergarten students will be given the power of slelecting a classroom pet. Students, working in collaborative groups, must collect data about different potential classroom...

A scanned copy of the 1895 publication of Peeps at Our Pets by Ernest Nister, a book of stories and poems for children.

A learning module geared toward English as a Second Language Learners. Students read and/or listen to a short text entitled "Cloning Pets" and click on the links below to increase comprehension and vocabulary skills. Students can...

A poem from Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "Yes, Call Me by my Pet-Name! Let Me Hear", is provided on this site. Students may listen to this poem read aloud by Erin Mesdag and can access a printable version of this piece.

This complete lesson plan has students solve word problems using addition and subtraction within 20.

This resource provides guidelines in determining if your pet is overweight. It also provides illustrations which depict various bodyweights.

This informative site makes an interesting case as to why turtles should not be pets. What do turtles need and don't need is discussed along with what can we do to help turtles survive.

A great Science Fair project that involves analyzing your cat's behavior and designing toys that will be stimulating both physically and mentally. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up consistently beginning with an abstract,...

Research the location of land mines by animals and technological methods. Use a metallic probe to uncover the location of an electric-circuit target (representing a buried land mine) without setting off the "bomb".

Examine dog food nuggets made from different ingredients to discover which nuggets are more likely to clean the teeth surface during a dog's normal chewing activity. Explore the correlation between cost of the food and its teeth-cleaning...

What are labrador retrievers? Explore these popular dogs that make great pets on this site.

After observing and naming elements of an animal's habitat, and reading The Salamander Room by Anne Mazer, students write fictional stories about finding and caring for a wild animal. A printable graphic organizer, a teacher example, and...

This resource is provided by the Vermont Writing Collaborative. Many examples of student's on-demand opinon writings are included. Students had been prompted to decide which kind of pet is best, a cat or a dog.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan and materials to teach kindergarten students to identify and describe a nonfiction text.

Journey back over a million years ago and see how the common frog has adapted and changed.

Contains plans for eight 50-minute lessons that use Ezra Jack Keats books to teach predicting, comparing and contrasting, and problem solving. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF...

My son and I have a pet orangutan named Kevin. He talks to us almost every day and usually asks for a banana. All right, he's not a pet, he's a large hairy puppet, and I make him talk using the trick of ventriloquism. But it's pretty fun...

One glance and students know that the new girl at Mica High School is not your ordinary high school student. Stargirl Caraway is a free spirit. She has a pet rat named Cinnamon, plays the ukulele in the cafeteria, and refuses to wear the...