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Bite Free Kit: Dog Bite Safety Unit
A comprehensive dog bite safety unit for elementary level used extensively across North America. Educator Kit with teacher's manual, master brochure and either a DVD or VHS with two components: Bite Free Playing it Safe With Dogs and Tom and Luka Teach Bite Free.

Cost: $25 CDN / kit (add $10 CDN for orders to the US)   TO ORDER

Each year thousands are hospitalized because of dog bite injuries -- nearly half of them are children under age 10. With this kit humane educators will learn how to deliver a professional dog bite safety presentation to children. Teach children how to react to stray or attacking dogs and give them the skills to recognize and avoid potentially dangerous confrontations with dogs.

The Bite Free Kit Includes:

Teaching Bite Free:
A step-by-step lesson plan for teaching children why dogs may bite and how to act safely around dogs, complete with activities, background articles on dog behaviour, display material, tips for making a presentation with a dog and a list of related resources.

Bite Free: Playing It Safe With Dogs (10 minute) Video or DVD:
the dogs themselves explain what makes them bite and how to be safe around them. The video or DVD also inlcudes:

Tom and Luka Teach Bite Free:
a 16 minute instructional video demonstrating how to do a dog bite safety presentation to a group of children. The video is helpful in training volunteer presenters who may not have experience in the classroom.

Master Bite Free brochure:
has information for both students and parents on being safe around dogs and a fold-out board game on dog safety for children.

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Kindness Counts

Kindness Counts: Empathy Unit (K-2)
A primary  level, curriculum-linked unit designed to teach empathy, caring and respect for others, animals and nature.  Through participatory activities students will understand and demonstrate empathy by noting similarities and differences amongst people ad animals.  Further, by examining their own feelings, students learn to recognize how their actions and words affect others and the world around them.  The result is an awareness and acknowledgement of how kind acts affect other people, animals and the environment. Click here to see a sample activity.

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Developing empathy skills works to reduce the acts of violence to all living things. Kindness Counts is specifically designed to impart a message of care, compassion and respect for each other, for animals and for nature.

The Kindness Counts Unit Includes:

Kindness Counts - a hands-on guide for introducing the concept of empathy, by focusing on the similarities and differences of others and animals through activities and presentation. Materials also link the empathy concept to the care of nature. The kit has master activity sheets for primary  level students and general pet care information.

Companions for Life

Companions for Life: Pet Care Responsibility (Gr. 3-5)
This unit is in two parts, 1. Manual   2. worksheets
An intermediate level unit that focuses on responsibility  and empathy.  Empathy is a skill essential for pro-social behaviour and is a prime indicator of the potential success of a child.  Empathy can sometimes be difficult to teach, yet incorporating animals as the subject, gives students a neutral ground in which to start.

Responsibility is something students need to understand in order to feel confident. Students must understand that their actions and words are their responsibility and affect others around them.  Pet care responsibility is quite common for students though many times it is not one that is given the serious consideration that it deserves.  Having used pet care as a base to introduce responsibility the concept can be extended to their responsibilities as citizens within the community. Click here for a sample activity.

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You Can Make a Difference

You Can Make a Difference Classroom projects (grades 6&7)
Seven projects students can do to take action for animal.  Each project will satisfy several prescribed learning outcomes for language arts, social studies and/or visual arts.   Projects include speeches, presentations, displays, posters, petitions, letters, videos/skits and fundraisers.  Each is outlined in a lesson format for teachers and worksheet/tip sheets for the students.

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Developing skills in responsible advocacy will give students confidence to make changes for causes in which they believe.  You Can Make a Difference is specifically designed to show students that their are several ways to make changes for animals in their community.

Cluck! The Life of an Egg-Laying Chicken

Cluck! The Life of an Egg-laying Chicken: Farm Animal Units (Gr. 4-6)
An educational unit to introduce youth to farming practices, encourage students to think critically about where their food comes from, and teach young people respect for animals. This unit is in the pilot project stage. Read more about the egg unit here.

We are expanding the awareness of farm animal welfare and its connection to sustainable farming by offering a classroom unit for teachers. The unit will introduce youth to chicken physiology, behaviours, farming practices, encourage youth to think critically about where their food comes from and teach young people respect for animals. The unit will go beyond lessons about animal welfare by ensuring young people understand the differences that can be made through informed consumer choices to help direct social change.

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