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Cats, Dogs and Us: Education pack (years 3-4)

Teacher guide Cats, Dogs and Us: Education pack (years 3-4)

TLF ID M018258

This education pack is an International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) resource designed to build students' understanding about the special place domestic cats and dogs have in people's lives. The pack consists of a teaching guide, a student magazine and six student worksheets focusing on topics such as the physical characteristics and natural behaviours of cats and dogs, and the responsibilities in caring for cats and dogs. The resource contains links to an online video library and further teaching guides.

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Educational value
  • This resource is valuable for civics and citizenship in Years 3 and 4. It is particularly useful for the year 3 Knowledge and Understanding content description where students identify facts that support their point of view on issues that affect themselves and society. It also has relevance to the Civics and Citizenship Skills strand in year 4 that explores the purpose and services that local government provides to the community.
  • * This resource supports the Year 3 and 4 English curriuclum. As the resource presents and seeks responses to the care of cats and dogs, it is particularly useful for the Literature content descriptions at both year levels in the responding to literature and creating literature areas where texts are related to personal experiences. * This resource is very useful for the year 3 and year 4 science curriculum. It is relevant for the content descriptions referring to: living things depend on each other and the environment to survive; and living things have structural features to help them survive.
Year level

3; 4

Topics Communities Animal welfare Text structure Creating texts Recreational facilities Food chains Animal reproduction Parks and reserves Social services Living things Characters (Narratives) Attitudes Decomposition (Living things) Ecosystems Plant reproduction Data analysis Breeding cycles Dogs Cats Pets Classification Plots (Stories) Editing Waste management Consumers (Food chains) Local government Judgement Language conventions Narratives Imaginative texts Personal responses Similarity (Classification)
Learning area
  • Humanities and social sciences
  • Civics and citizenship
  • English
  • Science

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Contributors
  • Contributor
  • Name: Education Services Australia
  • Organization: Education Services Australia
  • Description: Data manager
  • Address: VIC, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.esa.edu.au/
  • Copyright Holder
  • Name: International Fund for Animal Welfare
  • Organization: International Fund for Animal Welfare
  • Address: NSW, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.ifaw.org/
  • Publisher
  • Name: International Fund for Animal Welfare
  • Organization: International Fund for Animal Welfare
  • Description: Publisher
  • Address: NSW, AUSTRALIA
  • URL: http://www.ifaw.org/
  • Resource metadata contributed by
  • Name: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Organisation: Education Services Australia Ltd
  • Address: AUSTRALIA
  • URL: www.esa.edu.au
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Learning Resource Type
  • Online
Rights
  • Copyright International Fund for Animal Welfare, 2014. This material may be used, reproduced and communicated free of charge for non-commercial educational purposes within Australia and in overseas schools where the Australian Curriculum is taught. Metadata and key graphic offered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/