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Lesson ONE: Kindhearted Kids Become Foster Pet Parents
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| Character Concept: | Learning ways to show kindness, respect, and responsibility towards people and animals. |
| Lesson Overview: | Students learn and practice the Golden Rule concept by becoming kind, responsible, and respectful foster pet parents for a stuffed dog or cat throughout a five lesson simulation. |
| Vocabulary: | kindness, respect, responsibility, cruelty, foster pet parent |
| Interactive Activities: | Flannel board storytelling, drama, pet journal writing realistic fiction and drawing. |
Lesson TWO: Companion Animals and People;
We have the same NEEDS, but pets need a HELPING HAND
| Character Concept: | By recognizing that people and animals share many of the same needs and feelings, students learn to become kind, caring, and compassionate pet guardians and ultimately, good citizens. |
| Lesson Overview: | Students learn to be caring and compassionate people by reading, acting, and singing about how they can be a helping hand for their pet |
| Vocabulary: | companion animal, wild animal |
| Interactive Activities: | Reading fiction (also in Spanish) and non-fiction books, drama, singing, pet journal writing (acrostic poem) and drawing. |
Lesson THREE: Decision Making: What are the costs of having a pet?
| Character Concept: | Making positive decisions means having empathy for other’s feelings, wants and needs. Students learn how to weigh the costs and benefits to everyone affected. |
| Lesson Overview: | Students learn how to determine the cost of owning a pet by charting and calculating pet supplies and veterinary costs. |
| Vocabulary: | decision, empathy, canine, feline |
| Interactive Activities: | Using a pet supply and a veterinary care catalog to calculate costs, reading non-fiction books, singing, pet journal writing and drawing. |
Lesson FOUR: Safety First: You and Your Companion Animal
| Character Concept: | Good citizens are mindful of personal safety and are considerate of those who depend on them to keep them safe from harm. |
| Lesson Overview: | Students learn about cat, dog, and people safety through poetry, puppets, and songs. |
| Vocabulary: | protect |
| Interactive Activities: | Participating in a puppet role play, singing, acting out safe/unsafe situations, pet journal writing and drawing. |
Lesson FIVE: Adding Up Pet Populations
| Character Concept: | Responsible pet owners show empathy toward pet overpopulation and make appropriate decisions for their pet’s well being. |
| Lesson Overview: | Students learn about pet overpopulation by using manipulatives to add up pet populations when cats and dogs are not spayed or neutered. |
| Vocabulary: | population, overpopulation, spay, neuter |
| Interactive Activities: | Canine Good Citizen visit, using math manipulatives, singing, pet journal writing (friendly letter) and drawing. |
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