Community & Civic Education
Check In (2-3 min)
Remind everyone of the themes for the week: Pets and Loving Care
Short recap of yesterday: types of pets and owners, relationship map, examples of loving care and closeness
Thematic Activity 01 (10-15 min)
- Review the materials on costs of pets, both to acquire and care for Video,
- Compare the sample budget and lifestyle sheets of these imaginary people to the pet costs calculator on this page. Choose a pet for each imaginary person.
PRESENTERS: The people's budgets are per MONTH, but the pet costs calculator is ANNUAL costs. Be sure to go over the difference and explain dividing the annual cost into 12 for the monthly cost
<BODY BREAK> (5 min)
Show and Share (5-8 min)
A funny picture or video of animals, or tell a story or joke about an animal
Tomorrow’s Show and Share is your ACTUAL pet or a pet costume you, or your pet, has worn
Thematic Activity 01 (10-12 min)
Use these discussion questions about your own finances and lifestyle to think about what kind of pet you can afford.
- If you already care for a pet, tell us about those costs and what you do to make sure your friend has space, food, rest, and company.
- How much money could you set aside to buy food and save for vet bills for your pet?
- Do you have the money it takes to acquire a pet in the first place?
- Do you have space in your home for a pet?
- Can you give your pet enough exercise?
- How many hours a day can you spend with your pet?
- Are there other people in your home who need be OK with a pet?
Skill Builder Practice (10-15 min)
- Do a search in google maps for the community garden you either go to, or is near you.
- Look at it in the street view. PRESENTERS: Street view becomes visible when you click on the little orange person icon in the lower right corner of the map and drop it onto the location you want in the map.
- Share your experiences in the garden, either the community one, or another one, your own or a friend’s
- What about gardening is “loving care?”
- What does the garden give you back when you give it loving care?
- Review the difference between plants that grow from seeds and plants that grow from tubers
Optional Videos
Video explaining TUBERS (potatoes)
Video time lapse of bean planted
Video time lapse of sweet potato p lant
<BODY BREAK> (5 min)
Skill Builder: Plant Project (5-10 min)
For the Love of Growing Things
Get the materials you chose for your gardening project. You got * this instruction sheet at home
Use these instructions to do the projects. PRESENTERS: Click to enlarge the image of the instructions that were sent home.
Sweet Potato Instructions-visual
Share what you have when you finish. Tell us where in your house you'll place it. They say that if you talk to your plants they will grow better. You might even want to name your plant.
We are going to remember to check the water and progress of our plants over the next few weeks. Plants, just like people and pets, need loving care too.
