Animal Awareness By Cristobal Nicolas Rodriguez-Rodriguez
Jan 04, 2016
Animal Awareness By Cristobal Nicolas
Rodriguez-Rodriguez
Animals have feelings
• Research has shown that animals have the capability to feel grief.
• Charles Darwin theory of Evolution supports emotions through a variety of species
Statistics
Animal Cases
• Since 2014 Merced Police Department has reported an increase in animal attacks
• Kuma the German Shepard and her owner Kimberly.
• January 16, 2015
• Kimberly’s neighbors murdered Kuma
Animal Cases
• On July 2013
• Lorenzo Segundo killed a Chihuahua
• Then threw the animal in a garbage can
• Also suspected of shooting dogs with a BB gun the previous year
Proposal
• My proposal is to implement the magazine Kind News from the Humane Society of the United States
• The Humane Society is an animal protection organization• Leading animal advocacy organization
• Provide care to over 100,000 animals each year
• Established since 1955
Specifications
• Kinds News is a magazine for elementary school students in K-6
• Offers three different reading levels: Primary, Junior, and Senior
• Only eight pages
• Follows the National Education Standards
• Easy to implement in class setting
• Classroom set comes with 29 copies and a teachers guide
• Bi-monthly
Fundraising
• Fundraising Idea: School Sleepover for Fourth graders and above
• Requirements:
• Sleeping bag
• Pajamas
• Toothbrush
• Toothpaste
• Teachers would create activities for students
How much money can we earn
• Classroom set costs $30
• Charge: $15
• Burbank Elementary needs: $780
• Teacher Student ratio for Burbank Elementary is 23:1
• There are seven classrooms and if each student went to the sleepover $2,415 can be made.
• $1,635 would remain• Reimburse teachers that paid for equipment
• Rest split evenly between teachers
Thank You for your time!!!
• Here are pictures of dogs being cute