Animal Shelter*

Resource for Grades 3-8

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Running Time: 0m 50s
Size: 2.3 MB

Source: WILD TV: "The Animals We Live With"

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What Can You Do?
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Animal shelters protect and care for homeless animals in a community. They take in animals when either the owner can no longer keep the pet or when the animal is lost. The animals are housed and are offered up for adoption. Animal shelters offer a valuable service to protect the animals and people of a community. This video segment from WILD TV features one of the two shelters operated by Albuquerque Animal Services. For more about animal shelters, see the video segment "What Can You Do?"

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The following Frame, Focus and Follow-up suggestions are best suited for elementary or middle school students using this video in an English language arts or social studies lesson. Be sure to modify the questions to meet your students' instructional needs.

What is Frame, Focus and Follow-up?

Frame (ELA) Think about the various types of writing generated by various authors. Have you ever thought about the author’s purpose for writing in these various formats? What is an author's purpose for writing commercials and advertisements? What other reasons might authors have for writing?

Focus (ELA) Determine the author’s or filmmaker's purpose in making this video.

Follow Up (ELA) What might have been the author’s purpose in creating this video? What clues lead you to your conclusion? Discuss steps you could take to change this video or strategies you could use with this video "as is" to portray other purposes. For example, how would changing the background music or changing the ending affect the audience's response?

Frame (SS) What do you know about animal shelters? Do you have one in your community? Have you ever paid a visit to an animal shelter? If so, why?

Focus (SS) As you watch the video, think about why we have animal shelters in our society. What purposes do they serve?

Follow Up (SS) Why do communities have animal shelters? Are the practices of animal shelters ethical? Are their practices necessary? Devise an alternative plan to solve the problems that animal shelters aim to solve.