1.15 All About Animals
“All About Animals” is Activity 1.15 from the Grow Your PALS Program Guide (National FFA Mentoring Program), part of the Teamwork unit. In this 30-minute activity, an FFA member brings a live animal to share with elementary-age PALS, leading a discussion about responsibility and how caring for an animal’s needs (food, water, and shelter) demonstrates responsibility. It concludes with connection questions linking animal care to responsibility in the students’ own lives.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Define "responsibility."
- Discuss what you are responsible for when caring for an animal.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 30 minutes.
- Materials
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- An animal of your choice (a pet or livestock; if you do not have one, ask a fellow FFA member to borrow his/her animal. Be sure that the animal is calm enough to be used safely with elementary students)
- Commonly used items to care for the animal
- Unit
- Teamwork
- Precepts
- D. Character — D3. Accept responsibility for personal actions
- Number of Students
- From a pair of students to an entire class
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Aligned Standards
National Standards
- CS.01.04.03.aIdentify the consequences of personal actions.