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Classroom pets
By Cathy-Dee

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I don't have too many ideas on what kind of pets, but here are my thoughts anyway.

Birds - I wouldn't think they'd make great classroom pets just because of the noise and the clean-up involved. They might be ok over a
weekend but your room would have to have a pretty steady temperature, etc., Also you'd have to check with your students and staff for anyone with allergies to feathers which is more common than one would think.

With your fish - you might want to try fish again - do not put in live plants (live plants often are what cause the algae) and keep the aquarium away from sunlight. We've had

an aquarium up in our entrance area by our office since October and we've had no algae.

Lizards can be neat classroom pets if you don't mind feeding them crickets, etc., I was fine as I dumped them in quickly and shut the top.

 


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