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For teachers and groups · Bradenton, FL

Gallery walks

Four walks, one for each grade band. Each stop names a card to stand in front of and a question to ask there. Lessons on newSchoolWorks.com pick up where the walk ends.

All bandsGrades K-2Grades 3-5Grades 6-8Grades 9-12
Grades 9-12 · 8 stops

Markets, laws and the moral animal

Eight stops on price, law and ethics: who decides what may be bred, sold, eaten or made to fight. About 50 minutes.

  1. Bred, sold, kept, adopted, killed: Bred and sold
    California and New York now allow only rescue animals in pet stores. Predict two effects on the market, one intended and one not.
  2. Murderous cats: Cats on islands
    Cats helped drive at least 63 species extinct. Should outdoor cats be regulated like other invasive species? Argue both sides.
  3. Animals made to fight: American law today
    Federal law reached the territories in 2018. Why might a ban popular in one place be resisted in another?
  4. Animals made to fight: Bullfighting: culture and law
    Spain's court struck down Catalonia's ban. Who should decide when tradition and welfare collide: region, nation or court?
  5. Markets and delicacies: South Korea ends dog meat
    South Korea paid farmers to close. Compare a ban with compensation to a ban without it.
  6. Markets and delicacies: Shark fin soup
    The U.S. banned shark-fin sales in 2022. Can one country's law change demand elsewhere? What evidence would show it?
  7. The economics of tuna: Bluefin: collapse and recovery
    Pacific bluefin rebuilt after quotas. Use the tragedy of the commons to explain why agreement was hard and why it worked.
  8. Lionfish in Florida: Eat them to beat them
    Can a market for eating an invader help a reef? What could go wrong if lionfish became too profitable?
Linked lessons

The Dog at the Fire: Open the drawerPreviewThe Dog at the Fire: Take the other sidePreviewEcosystems: Populations and carrying capacityPreviewThe Market and the Customer: Supply, demand and the shortagePreviewLectures in Society and Economy: Trade windsPreviewLiving Together: The political animalPreview

Fiction to pair

Black Beauty (Anna Sewell, 1877), a novel that changed laws · Moby-Dick (Herman Melville, 1851), the economics of the sea · The Theory of the Leisure Class (Veblen, 1899), on status foods · The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway, 1952), at your library

Every room, as this band sees it
DogsCatsPet birdsReptilesAquarium fishBred, sold, kept, adopted, killedMurderous catsAnimals made to fightMarkets and delicaciesFugu and poisonous puffersThe economics of tunaLionfish in Florida
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Faint rooms are meant for older grades and stay closed in a younger student's view. More walks through the farm galleries: start in the lobby. Animals in fiction.