Presents suggestions of what teachers and employees of welfare organizations can do to encourage people's observance of "Be Kind to Animals Week." Includes places to go, people to see, and things to do. (BC)

Annotates six books dealing with careers in wildlife work, genetics, pets without homes, cacti, oaks, and catnip. (FL)

This document features a guide for elementary and secondary school teachers integrating animals into their curriculum and classrooms. Topics discussed include suitable classroom pets, care and housing, integrating the classroom pet into the curriculum, live animal studies, earthworms, dissections, science fairs, and resources. (YDS)

This document presents a resource for elementary teachers in the form of a collection of facts and measurements of animals and planets to be used in generating student interest for these different topics. It is suggested that the teacher make an overhead transparency of the measurements related to the current topic, then have students guess at…

This field guide provides guidance to beginners on how to look for clues to animal activities; remember bird songs; attract birds, butterflies, and other wildlife to the backyard; develop the skills needed to identify wildflowers; look for distinctive field marks on wildlife; keep an accurate journal of outdoor discoveries; and make on-the-spot…

This two-part document features an activity book for students to learn about the diversity of life in the ocean. Activities include crossword puzzles, detailed drawings of sea creatures, connect-the-dot activities, and word searches. (CCM)

This guide provides detailed information, resources, and activities to teach students about the bats of Arizona. Chapters include: (1) "What is a Bat?"; (2) "Megabat or Microbat?"; (3) "Bat Anatomy"; (4) Diet and Feeding"; (5) Echolocation"; (6) Reproduction and Lifespan"; (7) "Flight"; (8)…

Students debating in a controversial scientific issue were asked to defend the position opposite to that which they initially held. The technique produced much student involvement and exposed students to the professional literature. (AL)

The functions of pituitary and sex hormones in the production of muscle in animals are discussed. A mechanism for hormone action is suggested. (LC)

Discusses the consequences of severe malnutrition in young experimental animals. Development of the brain is permanently impaired. Studies of the effects of malnutrition on children are included. (This paper was presented at the Eighth Annual Lecture of the Merrill-Palmer Historical Library in Child Development and Family Life, October 25, 1968.)…

A nontechnical summary of the connection between malnutrition and intelligence, reports the findings of experimental research in animals and in human subjects. (MF)