About the sharing educational tools project
for animal care/control centers across the country
Currently, awareness about needs of educational activities for children is increasing at animalcare/control centers across the country. The activities are intended to tell ‘the importance oflife’ , ‘appropriate care for pets’ , and ‘decrease the number of culling’ .
Based on the situation, we have the sharing educational tools project, related to animal careeducation and humane education, for anyone associated with public administrations aboutanimals.
Our tools are developed with animal care/control centers around the country, and already usedin the educational sites.
These programs are preferred to be brushed up, as a common property with private citizens.
We need to share the reflection on the past conducts and lay out a framework to make
improvements appropriate for the sites and time.
The purpose of the project is a realization of a spiritually rich society for happier coexistenceof human and animals, by providing an opportunity of education about ‘importance of life’ forchildren.

Study SheetChildren can learn required knowledge for animal care and owner’ s responsibilities.

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Children can learn various theme with fun illustrations and catchy design. It is not forcing children tolearn what adults want to tell. In the contents, children can learn through play.

Spot the Difference QuizChildren find a right and wrong way tointeract with pets on the sheet written
quizzes. The comments and advice arewritten on the back.

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Children love mazes and spot thedifferences. They look the illustration andfind the right and wrong way that is a good
trigger to learn as a stimulated experience.

Japanese cards ‘karuta’
Our original karuta, written words related animal careeducation, teaches how to involve with people and pets.

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The phrases written on cards are easy to understand, andchildren can learn how to involve with people and pets.
There are bits of knowledge written on reading cards, so
anyone can tell the message to children.

Let’ s go to an animal care/control center!
Using a large board, teaching children the work contents of animalcare/control center. Children learn owner’s responsibilities and what theyneed to take care pets.

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Animals arouse children’ s interest. By using papier-mache animals instead ofreal animals, three dimensional expansion becomes possible. There is no need toworry about child’ s allergy, accidental bites byanimals, and stresses on animals. Children
can join the program using various items andpapier-mache animals.

“Become friendly with animals” in Kyoto(A4 size book & B3 size picture story show)
Mainly for first graders. The purpose is teaching children an
importance of connection with various animals and ‘importance oflife’ .

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Based on the five ‘Kyoto animal care charter’established by Kyoto city, children think about
the city in which people and animals cancomfortably coexist.
Through the various innovative contents,
children can learn how they are connected withanimals. That includes a coloring page, spot thedifference quizzes (in which animals and people
in Kyoto city are illustrated), thinking of a feelingof animals, an age chart of human and animals,a heart rate chart of human and animals, andothers.