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Animal Observation Form - Teacher's Pet
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Name: Mary My Pet is: Angel It is a: Cat
Directions:
Spy on your pet once every thirty minutes, for three hours (six times in all). Watch for a few seconds, then circle what your pet is doing. When you are done with all the observations, answer the questions below.
- What did your pet spend the most time doing? Use numbers to tell how you know. Sample answer: My cat spent most of the time sleeping. It was asleep four out of the six times I checked on it. That's more than half the time.
- What did your pet spend the least time doing? Use numbers to tell how you know. Sample answer: My cat never ate when I watched. It didn't play either. It was sitting awake once and walking once. It was asleep mostly.
- Did anything go wrong during this observation? Sample answer: Angel saw me watching her and she walked over to me. I didn't know what to write so Mom said to mark the first thing she was doing when I saw her, and that was sleeping.
- What is the most interesting thing that happened while you did this observation? Sample answer: I didn't know cats sleep so much. If you leave them alone they pretty much sleep all day.
- What else would you like to tell? Sample answer: I want to see if Melissa gets the same answers when she watches her cat.
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