This unit will provide information about the physical, behavioral and social needs of elephants. Students will explore the behaviors of elephants in the wild including family structure and relationships, home ranges, and diminishing habitat. Students...

If you are a teacher or other pedagogue and are absent from school because of illness, you will be paid for up to 10 days in any school year without submitting a doctor’s note. These are known as “self-treated days.” If you take more than 10 self...

Any regularly appointed teacher may apply for a leave of absence. Leaves of absence with partial pay include military leaves and sabbatical leaves for study and for restoration of health.

Sabbaticals are available to teachers to enhance their teaching skills, restore their health, or achieve state certification in a shortage area.

This unit will enable students to identify monkeys and apes and the similarities they share with humans. Students will learn that monkeys and apes are animals, what they eat, where they live and how group members interact and cooperate. The...

The activities in this unit will provide students with understanding concerning the selection, care, training and health of their cat or dog.

Zoological Gardens and Parks have long been popular destinations for school field trips. These visits, and the weeks prior to such an outing, can be fully utilized for their educational potential, with teacher pre-planning. The purpose of this unit...

The United States Department of Agriculture has recommended that we used the Food Guide Pyramid in making daily food choices. Students would begin to understand how food choices are made and which choices we should make. Health studies on how food...