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Animal Shelters (Grades 3-5)

Suggested Level: Grades 3-5

Subject Area: Social studies, Language Arts, Math, Family Living

Goal: To understand what an Animal Shelter is and how you would adopt a pet from a local animal shelter

Objectives:

  1. What is an animal shelter?
  2. Who works in an animal shelter? – Discuss the types of jobs there.
  3. Adopting a pet from an animal shelter

Materials:

Procedure:

  1. With the help of the students make a list of what the purpose of an animal shelter is – home for stray animals, a place to adopt a pet, investigation of cruelty to animals on farms or in homes – and who works there.
  2. Individually, students work on the sheet “Working at the Animal Shelter”
  3. Using the blackboard, brainstorm with the students to come up with the responsibilies of pet guardianship and what the pet’s needs are: Cost, care, time etc.
  4. Students individually work on the sheet “Your Perfect Pet”
  5. Students then divide into groups of 5 or 6 to prepare one of the 3 scenarios with the idea of acting for the class.
  6. Students preparing the adoption scenarios will use the Adoption contract to assist them
  7. Students preparing the “losing a pet” scenario will use the sheet “No place like home”

Websites

http://www.animalink.ab.ca/index.html
http://www.animalhealthcare.ca
http://www.cfhs.ca/Links/index.htm (for listing of federal animal shelter and humane societies.
http://www.petlynx.net/PetLynx/
http://www.cfhs.ca/Kids/index.htm
http://www.americanhumane.org/kids
http://www.aspca.org
http://www.paws.org/kids/

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