Lesson Plans

Listed below are links that have information, lesson plans, or educational activities for grades K-12.

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Pre-School and Kindergarten

ART AND COLORING PAGES

123child.com
     Art - cats - dogs - birds
coloring.ws
     Art - animals - insects - birds

BOOKS, POEMS, SONGS, COUNTING, GAMES: ALL ABOUT CATS     http://www.stepbystepcc.com/animals/cats

Grades 1-5

ART

http://www.coloring.ws/animals2.htm

http://www.cartoonconnections.com/draw_a_cat_page.htm

http://www.billybear4kids.com/Learn2Draw/cat/page1.html

http://www.lessoncorner.com/Art_and_Music/Art   

Grade 4

ART/GEOGRAPHY/ECOLOGY
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/elem/Cindy-animals.htm

Grades 3-6

ART - Animal sculpture lesson plans
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/elem/Cindy-animals.htm

Grades 4-6

SCIENCE - Animal Brain Size lesson plans
http://www.crayola.com/lesson-plans/detail/be-brain-smart-lesson-plan/

K-12 

ZOOLOGY

 This link has many lesson plans relating to animals, insects, etc. http://www.lessoncorner.com/search?q=zoology&grade=&x=50&y=7

LANGUAGE ARTS

http://www.readwritethink.org/calendar/calendar_day.asp?id=663

Animals in literature – Aesop's Fables
http://www.aesopfables.com/

Grades 2-4 – Grammar, Punctuation, Testing skills
     http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/archives/animalsAtoZ.shtm

Grades 3-5

Animals and Folklore- lesson plans for English/Language Arts
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=377

Animating Poetry – Reading Poems from the Natural World - Lesson Plans
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=778

Grades 6-12

Study discussions for reading “Animal Farm”
http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson_images/lesson613/Allegory01.pdf

Grades 6-12

Black Beauty- Great resources for discussion and further reading- Animal cruelty, etc.
http://www.readwritethink.org/calendar/calendar_day.asp?id=466

GEOGRAPHY AND LIFE SCIENCES

Grades 3-5 Geographical Dog Show “How Dogs were Domesticated from Wolves”
http://tinyurl.com/88l5qwc

Grades 3-5 Animal Adaptations
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?DocID=232

Grades 6-8 – A Visit to the Vet: Dog
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/pdfs/pets1_actsheet.pdf

Grades 6-8- Animal Communication
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?DocID=388

Grades 6-8 Pets- "Oh Behave!"
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?DocID=288

Grades 6-9 The Beagle Brigade
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?DocID=435

Grades 6-8 What are Innate and Learned Behaviors?
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/Esheet.cfm?DocID=40

Grades 9-12

Animals versus People: Who's the better Navigator?
http://tinyurl.com/6uf8ln9

Animal Emotions
http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=3396

The Crittercam Chronicles
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/crittercam/index.html

Good National Geographic magazine article:
A Love Story – Our Bond with Dogs
http://tinyurl.com/7486xwn

OTHER RESOURCES FOR TEACHING

http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/schoolroom/animals.php

More links will be added throughout the school year. Please let us know if this information is helpful to you. If you have some educational links or lesson plan ideas that you would like to share with us, please send them to clinic@monroevet.com