What is the difference between a domestic and a wild animal? Your learners may be surprised once you dig into this a little. I had assumed that domestic animals were simply those that were pets – cats and dogs.
But it turns out it is not that simple. I found this out when I wanted to enter a wonderful photo I had of alpacas into the wild animal category for a photo contest. A friend told me that was the wrong category for this photo. Alpacas are domestic animals. Once I started to do research I was really surprised at what is considered a domestic animal. I really didn’t understand what the term domestic meant. It is also fascinating to find out when an animal was domesticated. Dogs – 30,000 years ago!
Lots of authentic projects here. Starting to research this topic could easily move into an authentic project about pretty much any animal out there. Gotta go, time to feed my pet alpacas.
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