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General Assessment

Question	Response
What skills does this resource explicitly teach?	This resource explicitly teaches t-chart strategies where the students place pet animals on one side and not pet animals on the other. They also are taught skills in graphing, creating Venn diagrams, listening and focusing on the task at hand.
What important ideas are implied by the resource, but not taught explicitly?	The importance of cooperative learning is implied but not specifically taught.
To enhance this resource the following changes would be beneficial:	What the students have learned could be showcased on the school website, published in a school newsletter, or presented to the media. Perhaps the children could share want they learned at a school assembly with invited parents and others from the community.

Sustainability Education Principles

Principle	Rating	Explanation
Bias Minimization	Good	The unit of three lessons teaches children the importance of caring for pets, understanding their needs and becoming responsible citizens.
Multiple Dimensions of Problems & Solutions	Good	The unit provides opportunities for the children to learn about basic needs for their pets and themselves. They learn how to be responsible as good citizens towards the care of their pets and in comparing the needs of themselves and their pets they learn to become responsible for themselves and others. (social) Cleaning after their pets helps the environment and planning a campaign to donate to local animal shelters addresses the economic dimension of the issue.
Respects Complexity	Good	Using movement, assessment, questioning and reflecting in the unit demonstrates a systems-thinking approach. The unit begins with brainstorming and discussion and moves towards hands-on classroom activities that culminate in organizing a campaign to help out an animal shelter.
Action Experience	Good	Aiding the animal shelter and the mentoring by older students in planning, advertising and collecting donations (items which the younger students have chosen) provide authentic action experiences.
Action Skills	Mediocre	Although formal skills are not taught samples of letters to send home for the parents to help out with the campaign are included in a handout. Also older children assist the younger ones as mentors.
Empathy & Respect for Humans	Poor/Not considered	Poor This is not addressed in this resource.
Personal Affinity with Earth	Mediocre	The focus of this resource is to promote respect for other living things. Suggestions are made to visit a local animal shelter or to invite someone from the shelter to come to the class.
Locally-Focused	Good	The importance of caring for pets and understanding their needs as well as helping out an animal shelter is very relevant to the lives of the children in all communities.
Past, Present & Future	Good	The resource focuses more on promoting a sense of the present, and a positive vision for the future. This is accomplished through learning about the importance of caring for pets and taking action to help out with a community animal shelter.

Pedagogical Approaches

Principle	Rating	Explanation
Open-Ended Instruction	Good	The brainstorming, questioning and reflection activitites allow for more than one right answer.
Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Learning	Good	The resource incorporates activities from Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Physical Education and Art.
Discovery Learning	Good	The variety of teaching strategies and integration of subjects into the unit allow for discovery learning events in all three lessons.
Values Clarification	Good	The discussion, reflection and mentoring activities by older students provide opportunities for the younger children to express their own beliefs/values.
Differentiated Instruction	Good	The structure of the lessons and the varied activity allows for differentiated instruction. Students have opportunities to learn at their own pace and instruction can be individualized for those with learning difficulties. The use of the dog puppet and 'yes and no' sticker sticks helps the children with focusing on their tasks.
Experiential Learning	Good	Either going to an animal shelter or having guest speakers come to the class enriches the unit and provides an authentic experience.
Cooperative Learning	Mediocre	The students work in smaller groups during some of the lessons, however cooperative skills are not explicitly taught or practiced.
Assessment & Evaluation	Good	The unit includes a Pre/Post test with one of the lessons and provides opportunities for assessment through reflection, participation, observation and recording answers.
Peer Teaching	Good	Students are encouraged to share what they have learned at home with their families. They share with each other and older students act as mentors.
Case Studies	Mediocre	In the teacher resource there is information about animal shelters but specific case studies are not part of this resource.
Locus of Control	Good	The concept of pet care is introduced to the students in a fairly structured manner but the students do make choices in the vocabulary and Venn diagram activities. The action component of the resource does facilitate delving deeper into the issue.

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