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If you'd like to obtain classroom
materials or need more info about
our educational resources, please
contact:

Humane Education Department
Phone: 435-644-2001, X4317
Fax: 435-644-2399
E-mail: humane.ed@bestfriends.org

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at Best Friends visit our Sanctuary
Stories section.

For more information on upcoming
events and workshop, see our
Best Friends' workshops calendar.

Classroom Resources

These are teaching materials and information for educators who want to include humane education in their curriculum.

Animal-Related Lesson Plans

Want to integrate humane awareness into your classroom, but not sure where to start? Try our lesson plans and classroom activities:

My Family and My Pet

• Animal Needs and Human Needs. A lesson that shows how we're not so different after all.
• Are you and your pet Good Citizens?
• Be a Responsible Pet Person. A handout for kids.
• Secret Sacks. A lesson in pet care.
• Pet Overpopulation Scroll. An art project that demonstrates the importance of spaying and neutering pets.

Meeting New Animals

• Safety Around Animals. A lesson about how to handle different situations with animals.
• Dog Bites, How Much Do You Know? A quiz.

Community Helpers

• Animals Helping People. A lesson about how animals change people's lives. See accompanying handout, Dr. Dog's Rx for Sick Kids.
• Disabled Folks and Stray Dogs Share TLC. A wonderful story about a special bond between dogs and people.

Library Skills

• Animal Scavenger Hunt. Take your class on a library scavenger hunt for information about animals.

Other Classroom Activities

• Time, Money, and Environment. An exercise that will make your students think twice about how much is really required to adequately care for a pet.
• Top Ten List. Things you can do to help animals.
• Rabbits in the Classroom. Are you a teacher who's considering keeping a rabbit in your classroom? If so, here are some things to consider.

Materials We Can Send You

• Curriculum-Related Activities
  These interdisciplinary materials help integrate children's love for animals into the regular curriculum (worksheets for grades 1 - 6).
• We have activities relating to:
  Math
  Language Arts
  Visual Arts
  Library Sciences

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