Big Cat Rescue's Teacher's Resource
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This page will help you find the information quickly that you need to captivate the interest of your students. Big Cat Rescue's website is more than 25,000 files of information about big cats in the wild and in captivity. We offer a huge array of articles on conservation, preservation and compassionate living. Our games are designed to familiarize children with the exotic cat species to spark an interest in much larger global matters. Kids learn best by doing and have a remarkable ability to gather and store information if they are having fun. Big Cat Rescue's website is designed to make learning fun. We are learning all the time and welcome your suggestions and feedback at Education@bigcatrescue.org
Click the links to find easy-to-use lesson plans designed to teach children about the responsibilities involved in properly caring for companion animals. Useful background information about responsible pet care is available at the Web addresses cited in many of the lessons. Get these and more great lesson plans in compassion from HSUS
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Preschool and Kindergarten
What Does It Take to Care for a Pet? (language arts)
A Visit to the Vet (social studies)
Pets and Their Homes: A Perfect Fit (math)
Pets and People: Needs We Share (science/health)
Grades 1 and 2
Good Training=Good Pets (language arts)
Pets as Good Neighbors (social studies)
Pet Care Pluses (math)
Safe Pets, Safe Kids (science/health)
Grades 3 and 4
Responsible Pet Ownership, Step by Step (language arts)
Pet Care Professions (social studies)
Pet Care Adds Up (math)
Wild or Tame? (science/health)
Grades 5 and 6
Who's Responsible (language arts)
Good Answers for Pet Problems (social studies)
Pets Are for Life (math)
First Aid Gives Pets a Second Chance (science/health)
What can kids do for the animals?
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Be kind to animals.
Make sure your friends are too.
Learn about animals so you can be their voice.
Write your congressman. We make it easy at www.CatLaws.com
Don't wear or play with things made out of real animals.
If you see fur for sale at a store tell the manager that it's cruel to kill animals for their fur.
Don't go to animal shows or circuses that use animals.
Never pay someone to touch a baby tiger or take your picture with one.
Don't let people bring wild animals to your school. They aren't props!
Recycle ink cartridges and cell phones at www.bigcatrescue.org/ink
Do a fundraiser for the big cats by selling magazines at www.MagFundraising.com/bigcatrescue
Or you can wash cars, mow yards, walk the neighbor's dogs or have a yard or bake sale. Party Ideas.
Do a zoo check to find out if your zoo is dumping animals when the next babies come.
Ask to see where the animals are kept when the zoo isn't open. Most of these animals spend half their lives shut in small cells.
Try making fewer of your meals out of dead animals. Soy is protein from plants and better for you anyway. Go Veg!
Pick up litter. Lots of wild animals are killed from eating or being trapped in litter.
Spay or neuter your pets. Hundreds of thousands of pets are killed each year because there are more babies than homes.
Micro chip your pets so they can always find their way home.









