Pet Care and Animal Advocacy Curriculum Overview

4/4

Brainstorm: what are some types of household pets? What do household pets need?

Read aloud “If You Were a Veterinarian”

Brainstorm: what is healthy/unhealthy for pets

4/6

Read aloud and game: The Do’s/Don’ts of pet safety

read aloud “Be A Pet Sitter”

Create an Ad to be a pet sitter

What do pets need?

Read aloud “Do You Really Want a Dog?”

Draw a dog how-to story

Read aloud “Do You Really Want a Cat?”

Create a how-to draw a cat step by step guide

4/13

Share dog stories

Hamsters KWL brainstorm  

Read aloud "Our New Hamster"

Design a hamster home planning sheets

Begin constructing hamster homes

Gerbil read aloud/ Venn diagram similarities and differences

4/18-

Constructing hamster homes

Read aloud "Hot Rod Hamster"

"Hot Rod Hamster" subtraction racecourse activity

Read aloud (other rodents)/venn diagram

Read aloud ("Humans Make Terrible Pets")

Pet association activities--matching cards of equipment/needs to specific animal

4/20- 

Brainstorm: how do animals help people?

Read aloud ("Animal Helpers" book)

Brainstorm: what do we know about dolphins? Want to know/learn?

Read aloud "Winter’s Tail"

Watch Winter on aquarium web cam

Dolphin research-- write about ways that dolphins help people and what we like about dolphins.

Brainstorm: how can we help animals?

Read aloud "Two Bobbies" and watch news story video

How can we protect our pets from extreme weather? Research and list.

4/25

Dolphin synonyms/antonyms collage

Read aloud (Hope for Winter)

Read aloud ("Helping Animals"

Reading about and presenting about endangered animals

Read aloud ("Dear Mr. Mutt)

Bake homemade dog treats

Video: Dogs with Jobs

4/27-

Complete hamster homes

Writing our own letters to Mr. Mutt (pet problems)

Respond to Mr. Mutt letters