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8 things we do that really confuse our dogs!

Primary Middle

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability

1. In pairs, read the following article from The Conversation 6 February 2020 Reading

2. List the eight things and then if you are a dog owner, place a tick or a cross against each one to indicate whether your family does this or not.

Put your information in a graph with all the other students in the class that have dogs.
What is the result?

3. Discussion

Discuss as a class:

"Should we put our dogs into a boarding kennel when we go away on holidays?"
taking into consideration these 8 things.

How much do we spend on our pets? Is it ethical?

Primary Middle Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Numeracy

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Ethical Understanding

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking

Australian Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Sustainability Priority

Philosophy

Cooperative Learning Activity

1. In pairs, work out how much money your household spends on your pets each week - that includes:

a. Food

b. Insurance

c. Vet costs

d. Boarding Kennels

e. Dog walker

f. Dog or cat costumes or accessories

2. Combine all the results of the class and average the results.

3. To find out the number of families in Australia, go to Australian Bureau of Statistics [this shows reference period June 2020 but could be updated].

4. Calculate the approximate amount of money spent in Australia using your class results as the average.

Were you surprised by this amount?

5. Back in your pairs, read the following article from The Conversation 15 October 2018 with statistics based on USA. Reading

Teacher - Primary - you might need to read out this article or summarize it for students.