Therapy Pets -- Issue 9 -- Feb. 25 - March 3
This week's standards: Students understand how physical, social and emotional environments influence personal health. (Health: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention). Students understand the interactions of animals and their environments. (Science: Life Science)
Activities:
- Draw a picture of your favorite pet helping someone. Write a story about your picture.
- Find newspaper words or pictures of three different animals that might make good therapy pets. Write a sentence explaining each of your selections.
- Ask friends and family members to tell you about a time that an animal made them feel better in some way. Write down their stories and put them in a book. Share the stories with others.
- Why is it so important for therapy dogs to (a) be calm in crowds, (b) not react to loud noises, (c) be comfortable with strangers, and (d) obey their trainers?
- Collect several news stories that show the ways people care about animals.
You may find stories about wild animals, pets or animal rescue groups. Then write a paragraph explaining why you think people care so much about animals.
(standards by Dr. Sherrye D. Garrett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)
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