- Different animal welfare organisations campaign about many issues. Provide the children with different newspaper or other media articles about one or more animal welfare issues. Working in small groups, they identify the key points of their article(s) and share these with the class.
- Ask the children how they might help to improve animal welfare, eg creating and maintaining a wildlife habitat at home or at school, providing food for birds, looking after their pets, organising fundraising activities to support an animal welfare charity.
- Either conduct a debate/discussion on an animal welfare issue, eg fox hunting, circuses, zoos, factory farming, the effects of pollution, or ask the children to design a poster/flier to highlight their concerns about a particular animal welfare issue, eg leaving dogs in hot cars, disturbing fledglings, fireworks. Make a class display for a suitable area in the school.
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- scan texts for information prior to more detailed reading
- draw on what they know and have found out to contribute ideas and opinions to a discussion about an animal welfare issue
- listen to the views of others
- recognise some simple actions they can take to improve animal welfare
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