Read Balto. Find out what diphtheria is. Trace route the medicine
had to travel to get to Nome. How many miles did all of the dog teams
travel? If Balto's team went 53 miles in 20 hours, what was their average
speed?
Read Officer Buckle and Gloria. Make up your own safety tips
and draw a picture of what Gloria would do to show your tip. Read a
book about police dogs. Set up a visit to meet a police dog in your
area. Organize a fundraiser to purchase a dog protection vest through
Vest-A-Dog.
Read Dogs on the Job. Locate on a map where each dog lived.
Look up each dog's breed. Write a story about how your family dog, or
another dog you know has been heroic.
Read Budddy: The First Seeing Eye Dog. Follow Buddy's route
on a map from the Swiss Alps to New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati,
Nashville, and New Jersey. Read book about guide dogs. If you live near
one of the dog schools, find out about their foster parent program.
Read the Etiquette
for guide dogs from the Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind.
Read Jim the Wonder Dog. In the early chapters, Jim is trained
to be a bird dog. Find out how you go about training a dog for that.
In Chapter 9, Jim identifies different types of trees. See if you can
identify as many different trees as Jim can. Talk about whether or not
you believe the story. Write a story about how you would have tested
Jim. If you live in central Missouri, visit the Jim the Wonder Dog Memorial
Park in Marshall, Missouri. You can also see his grave marker at the
cemetery.
There is quite a bit of information about heroic war dogs on the internet.
Find out during what wars dogs were used and what how they helped the
soldiers.
Read The Wreck of the Ethie. Do a little research about Newfoundland.
Find out what types of industry they have there. Is fishing still a
major industry? There are puffins in the story. Find out about puffins
and compare them to penguins. Find out what other animals are common
in Newfoundland. Find out what St. Elmo's fire really is. In the story,
the barometer was falling fast. What does that mean?
The author of The Wreck of the Ethie wrote to us about her book.
Here is what she wrote:
"I am the author of "The Wreck of the Ethie". Thank you
for including my book in your "Dog Heroes" section. If any
students would like to contact me about my book, my website is: www.hilaryhyland.com.
This site has more pictures of the wrecked ship and Newfoundland dogs.
There is a Teaching Guide that is based on my book...it can be downloaded
from my publisher's
website. "The Wreck of the Ethie" is also on Houghton
Mifflin's accelerated reading series with online study guides. I hope
your students love reading about the adventures of Colleen, Patrick
and Skipper. Very best wishes, Hilary Hyland"
Read about Old
Drum to find out how the saying "A man's best friend is his
dog" came about. You can watch "The Trial of Old Drum"
and then discuss the differences between the movie and what really happened.
Other fun Dog Ideas:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning has a dog poem called "To Flush, My
Dog". We found the words to it on the internet. Write your own
dog poem.
Dog Notebooking Page
Dog Coloring Pages
Dog -
Fire
Dog -
Show
Dog -
Sled
Disclaimer: All links
are for informational purposes only - a link to a web site does not imply
agreement with or endorsement of that site. Because of the changing nature
of the internet, always preview a site before viewing it with your children.
