Our dog-themed, curriculum-linked classroom resources provide fun activities to engage your pupils and bring learning to life.
We provide resources that can be used with pupils aged 4-16+.
The Dogs Trust Community Engagement and Education Team also deliver free primary school workshops and assemblies across the UK. Our Be Dog Smart school-based programme focusses on teaching children how to behave safely around dogs so that the human-canine bond can be enjoyed to the fullest.
Our dog-themed, curriculum-linked classroom resources provide fun activities to engage your pupils and bring learning to life.
We provide resources that can be used with pupils aged 4-16+.
The Dogs Trust Community Engagement and Education Team also deliver free primary school workshops and assemblies across the UK. Our Be Dog Smart school-based programme focusses on teaching children how to behave safely around dogs so that the human-canine bond can be enjoyed to the fullest.
In these activities, pupils will practice their adding, subtraction and multiplication of numbers, and analyse data to find the answers while exploring the costs involved in owning a dog.
This is a maths-based activity, but can also be used as part of a PSHE or Citizenship topic about rights and responsibilities and as a follow-up activity after a visit from one of our Education Officers.
Uses peer-led learning to help groups of pupils to prepare and deliver an assembly, workshop or display to help others learn about the work of Dogs Trust, and the importance of responsible dog ownership.
This resource uses Dogs Trust campaign materials to enable pupils to support a range of text-level activities within the Key Stage 3 strategy for English.
In these activities, pupils learn about the five senses in both humans
and dogs.
A simple worksheet can be used with younger pupils starting to learn
about the five senses; there is a reading comprehension activity for more
able or older pupils that also develops their understanding of how human
and dog senses differ. Finally, a multiple choice quiz that can be used as
a PSHE / Citizenship lesson or after a visit from one of our Education and
Community Officers.
This guide helps students complete their Enterprise Project by identifying and developing their enterprise skills, whilst finding out more about what we do.
Learning how to be responsible is part of growing up. Many families get a dog without fully understanding and appreciating the responsibility that comes with it. Pupils are encouraged to test their knowledge, explore, discuss and form opinions, as they develop an understanding of what it means to be a responsible dog owner, and an awareness of the commitment involved in owning a dog. This is a quiz-based activity to test and expand pupils’ existing knowledge. It can be used as part of a PSHE or Citizenship topic about rights and responsibilities and as a follow-up activity after a visit from one of our Education and Community Officers.
Getting a puppy is a big commitment, and it’s important that children and their families fully understand what is involved in owning a dog before getting one.
Pupils read the story ‘ A New Puppy’, which explores Jenny and her mum’s experience of getting a puppy and then answer ten questions about the story.
The activity practices pupils’ reading comprehension skills with a focus on retrieving information, as well as developing their awareness and understanding of what is involved in owning a dog.
In these activities, pupils practise their data analysis and Venn diagram skills
as they investigate what is safe for dogs to eat and how much different dogs
should eat to be happy and healthy.
This is a maths-based activity, but can also be used as part of a PSHE or
Citizenship topic about health and wellbeing, and as a follow-up activity
after a visit from one of our Education and Community Officers.
This activity can be used as part of a Science topic about selective breeding
within ‘animals’ and ‘evolution’. It could also be linked to a PSHE/Citizenship
activity exploring rights and responsibilities.
It explores the differences between four dog breeds in the past and the same
breeds as we know them today and encourages pupils to consider whether
selective breeding is always a good thing.
This resource comprises a range of activities to explore the role of dogs in the
military and encourages pupils to develop their historical enquiry skills.
Part 1 – Military dogs and their jobs in World War I and World War II
In the first task, pupils explore four different jobs dogs had during the world wars,
why they were chosen for these jobs, and whether we should have expected them
to do these jobs.
In the second task, pupils are asked to respond to the government’s war
office request to lend their family dog to the British Army, by writing a letter to
Dog World magazine.
Part 2 – How do the military meet a dog’s welfare needs?
In this activity, pupils explore the five welfare needs and how the military make sure
that military dogs’ needs are met.
In the first task, pupils sort statements into their correct welfare need, and in the
second task use source information to identify how the military look after their dogs
in a training facility in Jordan.
The third task gives pupils the opportunity to discuss how the military meets the
needs of its dogs, whether things could be improved and how the welfare needs
relate to pet dogs.
Part 3 – ‘Working Dogs’ post-workshop activities
The activities in this section are for use after your class has participated in a Working
Dogs workshop with one of our Education and Community Officers.
You can book your workshop at www.learnwithdogstrust.org.uk
Be Dog Smart is our primary school programme that focusses on two key
themes – safe behaviour around dogs, and responsible dog ownership.
The Spot the Problem story is designed to encourage children to consider and
adapt how they behave around dogs to keep both themselves and dogs safe.