Let’s Get A Pet

With this science lesson plan, students will be able to identify at least four basic survival needs for a pet. For grades K-1.

Where’s My Home?

With this science lesson plan, students will be able to identify suitable habitats for animals. For grades K-1.

Fur, Feathers, and Scales

With this science lesson plan, students will be able to place animals into groups based on their physical characteristics and body coverings. For grades K-2.

Animal Needs

With this science lesson plan, students will be able to discover what animals need to survive. For grades K-2.

Burrows Around the World

With this social studies and science lesson plan, students will be able to discover how some animals live in burrows and locate places on a map where burrowing animals live. For grades K-2.

10 Minutes to Bedtime

With this math lesson plan, students will be able to count 1 to 20 and do simple addition and subtraction problems. For grades K-2.

Tiny or Big

With this math lesson plan, students will be able to compare and estimate weights of familiar objects in relation to the classroom pet. For grades K-2.

Measure Up!

With this math lesson plan, students compare their body parts with those of their pet's for a fun and memorable learning experience. For grades K-2.

The Family Picnic

With this language arts, social studies, and visual arts lesson plan, students will be able to create a story about a make-believe animal family. (Suggestions - Harvey Hamster, Gigi Gerbil, George Guinea Pig) For grades K-2.

The Shape of Me

With this language arts and visual arts lesson plan, students will be able to create a book about the classroom pet. For grades K-2.

10 Minutes to Bedtime

With this language arts and visual arts lesson plan, students will be able to create their own story about the hamsters from the 10-Minutes to Bedtime book. For grades K-2.

Hamster Parts

With this language arts lesson plan, students identify classroom pet body parts and discuss why they are different than a person's. For grades K-2.

Fluffy Comparison

With this language arts lesson plan, students use a Venn Diagram to compare their classroom pet to one from a book, Fluffy Goes To School. For grades K-2.

The Furry Family

With this social studies and drama lesson plan, students will be able to create a puppet show for a furry family of stuffed animals about a special day. For grades K-2.

Take Me Home

With this social studies and geography lesson plan, students will match fish species to specific continents using the Internet. For grades 2-3.

Please Pick My Pet

With this language arts lesson plan, students will be able to write a persuasive letter, using correct letter format and giving at least three reasons to choose their pet. For grades 2-3.

Class Pet Art

With this art lesson plan, students use natural materials to assemble artwork of their classroom pet. For grades 3-5.

Pet Poem

With this language arts lesson plan, students work together to create a poem about their classroom pet. For grades 3-5.

Animal Match-Up

With this social studies and drama lesson plan, students use different means to connect with other students of the same animal type. For grades 3-5.

Join The Group

With this social studies and drama lesson plan, students act out different animal types and discuss how it feels to be in, and left out of, a group. For grades 2-5.

The Perfect Environment

With this social studies and drama lesson plan, students compare the differences in an animal's wildlife environment versus its life as a pet. For grades 3-5.

The Perfect Environment, Part 2

With this social studies and drama lesson plan, students evaluate how an animal's needs change as the seasons change. For grades 3-5.

'Tis A Puzzlement!

With this social studies lesson plan, students assemble puzzles but soon discover an odd piece that makes them solve an even larger challenge. For grades 3-5.

Nemo, All Fiction?

With this language arts and science lesson plan, students will be able to write a story explaining how fish survive in their environment by interacting with living and non-living elements. For grades 4-5.

What’s It Like To Be A Fish?

With this science lesson plan, students will be able to ask a focused question about fish behavior, predict an answer, and complete research to find an answer. For grades 4-5.