Prepared by Alicia Maule

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Cats Myths and Facts

• Prepared by Alicia Maule
• A Science Lesson about cats for Second to Fourth
  Graders

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A Cat is

• A mammal (it has hair)
• A small meat and plant eating animal
• Often a pet inside or outside of a home.

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A Cat has

• Two coats of fur
• One close to the body with very short hair that
  we cannot see
• One that we can see with longer hair
• Five toes on its front paws
• Four toes on its back paws
• Whiskers (long hair on their cheeks to feel)
• Two eyelids
• One that closes from the top to the bottom
• One that closes from the inside to the outside

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Cats eat or drink

• Mice
• Rats
• Grass
• Milk
• Water
• Store bought cat food
• Cheese

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Things cats do

• sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
• Purr
• See the colors white, black, blue, green, and red
  (not any other colors)
• Play with anything

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Myth or Fact?

• Cats only play with people and other animals.

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Myth

• Cats will play with ANYTHING!!!

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Myth or Fact?

• Cats cannot see color.

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Myth!

• Dont forget that cats can see some colors
• White, black, blue, green and red are all colors
  that a cat can see.

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Some DIFFERENT looking cats
Funny Ears
Ears Back
Eyes that Match its Fluff
Ears Front
Red Eyes
No Fluff
Different Colors
Big Ears
Fluffy
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Make a cat card!

• Things you will need
• Card stock or construction paper
• Scissors or Pinking shears
• Markers or crayons
• Googly eyes and glue (optional)
• Fold a piece of paper in half.
• Draw the outline of a cat on the folded paper.
  Make sure that the tail and both ears extend to
  the fold and go along it for at least a quarter
  of an inch (this is where the front and back will
  be attached to each other).
• Cut out the cat - make sure that there are areas
  of the fold that you do not cut, so that the
  front and back of the card are attached to each
  other.
• Put a face on your cat. Gluing on googly eyes
  gives the cat a cute look.
• Write a message on the inside of your new card.
• If you have any questions or would like to see
  where the instructions came from, click the
  button at the top left.

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References
References

• Cat Fact Tidbits http//silver.mooncrystal.com8
  000/gypsy/cattrivia/cattriv.html
• The Cat FanciersAssociation, Inc.
• http//www.cfainc.org/articles/myths-facts.html
• - ClipArt.com www.clipart.com