Making Your Pet's Life Easier … an exercise in creative thinking Curriculum Areas: English/Language Arts Links to Art & Craft, Science, Technology Levels: 2-5 Motivation Find out how many children have watched TV shopping programmes. Develop the idea that they all try to tempt us to buy 'things we don't need but want' that will possibly make our lives easier! Each group now becomes the 'creatives' at an advertising agency who have been given the job of inventing things for pets that will make their lives easier and a 'lot more fun'! Groups or class brainstorm ideas of pet inventions … the more zany the better, eg a rocket powered skateboard on a leash for a dog to make sure the owner keeps up during walks a self filling cat milk saucer that is always full to the brim an electonic garden bone locator What to Do Divide children into groups of three. Ask each group to come up with one pet invention. One pupil in the group writes a paragraph describing the invention, another pupil draws a picture to go with the description, and the third pupil presents the group's invention to the rest of the class. Now all the group co-operate to design an advertising poster, magazine and/or newspaper advertisement featuring their invention to … appeal to pet owners appeal to the pets themselves. Extra for Experts Design a one page advertising junk mail letterbox flyer of superb pet inventions to either… tempt the pet who has everything or tempt the pet owner with more money than sense Do you have a lesson you would like to share with other teachers? Simply email us an attached Word, Works or PDF file and we will add it to our library. Don't forget to include your name and school so we can acknowledge your work. Click on the email icon below.

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